So what does it mean for you if your online data has or hasn’t been grabbed? What could people do with your profile information? We help you answer some of the key questions in our new explainer series SO WHAT?
This Google executive was desperately unhappy despite his success, so he decided to find the equation for happiness.
News that an NHS Trust has shared the information of 1.6m patients with a service run by Google has raised concerns about how health data is being treated.
Siobhan Kennedy
Does bigger always equal better? Or should we beware a Google with ever sprawling tentacles?
Google surprises the business world by creating a new holding company that will oversee its latest ventures like drones and driverless cars.
Tech companies are moving into news and the journalism industry needs to fight back, or risk the death of ground-shaking exclusives that hold the rich and powerful to account.
Live-streaming video is building up a head of steam, but how will we deal with it all? And who owns the rights?
News last week that crime rates had fallen to a record low gives an indication as to how that shift is taking place.
Google Glass: I’m not crowing about the project’s lack of success, but from the beginning I’ve doubted its ability to break through.
Google has said it will shut down Google News in Spain, before a new ruling comes into effect meaning it would have to pay publishers if it displayed their content on its site.
Tech giants hope to consign the grubby leather wallet/purse to the dustbin of history. The US is leading the charge and it’s a three-way fight.
Alan Eustace, a top executive for technology giant Google, breaks the sound barrier as he jumps from space to beat Felix Baumgartner’s record skydive two years ago.
Introduced after the Google, Facebook and Starbucks tax scandals, new tax rules are doing very little to curb similar legal tax avoidance, it is claimed. Is public disquiet having more influence?
More than one in ten requests for Google to remove web links under the European “right to be forgotten” laws have come from the UK, the search engine reveals. But why have they made the requests?
Got your phone? It’s in your bag, right? Along with all the other things you own. Not quite: in fact, the vast majority of us don’t actually own our phones at all, we rent them.