2019 has seen technology and big name tech firms dominate news headlines, amid privacy concerns, digital tax and national security issues
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2019 has seen technology and big name tech firms dominate news headlines, amid privacy concerns, digital tax and national security issues
Anti-competitive behaviour and advertising rule breaches. France hits Google with hefty 150m euros penalty over its online advertising domination
The UK Competition and Markets Authority says it may consider implementing tougher rules on tech giants over competition concerns
Social networking giant takes action against advertising fraud with a lawsuit against Hong Kong firm
European Union urged to take action against Google for allegedly favouring its own comparison shopping service
Political adverts that target sections of people will no longer be allowed on Google's platforms worldwide
Pause online political adverts that are targeted and contain false information, international lawmakers have urged tech firms
Meeting with Facebook boss over political adverts, as social network rebrands itself as FACEBOOK
Facebook's online marketplace is reportedly being looked at Europe's competition watchdog
What crisis? Profit and revenue surge over 20 percent at Zuckerberg's house, despite a torrid year
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says that from next month, his platform will ban all political advertising
Advertising watchdog: Amazon used misleading payment page to get users to sign up for its Prime subscription service
Sorry folks. Twitter admits to inadvertently using people's email and phone numbers provided for security purposes, for advertising
Attorney generals from more than 30 US states are readying anti-trust investigation of Alphabet's Google unit
EU competition boss confirms investigation of Google job search tool after complaints from rivals
Do not track. New tool to give users the ability to stop apps and businesses sharing their data to the social network
Advertising sales drive profit and sales growth at Google parent, beating Wall Street expectations
Fresh threat. Sodinokibi ransomware distributed by malvertising, warns researcher
Time to switch to Signal, Telegram? Facebook confirms WhatsApp will carry adverts from 2020
Complaint filed in Europe's top court against controversial copyright law change recently adopted by EU
Apple WebKit proposes privacy-focused compromise for ad-tracking in Safari web browser
Irish data protection watchdog begins investigation to see if Google is obeying GDPR with its advertising services
Former CEO who grew Google into today's powerhouse is to step down from board of directors
Gigafast broadband service advert gets Vodafone into hot water with advertising watchdog
Third EU fine in two years for Google as European Commission rules its advertising service broke antitrust rules
Refund for advertisers? Outage spread across two days, but social network remains silient about the cause
Back in 1989 a British scientist at a physics laboratory near Geneva invents the world wide web
Europe's largest economy considers imposing 'digital tax' on mostly US-based tech giants
Shares in Google parent slide after heavy Q4 spending, but healthy advertising revenues bolsters financials
Legal action halted after Facebook agrees to introduce scam ads reporting button, and makes financial donation