Google

Latest Stories

US regulators accuse Google of underpaying female workers

Associated Press

YouTube TV has some nifty features - and some big drawbacks

By ANICK JESDANUN - Associated Press

Feds detain prostitute who gave Google exec fatal drug shot

Associated Press

Some Charleston residents oppose Google’s water request

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017, photo, an Uber representative helps travelers find rides with Uber at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Uber’s first report on employee diversity shows low numbers for women, especially in technology positions. Uber’s report doesn’t count drivers as employees. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Uber diversity: low on women, like other tech companies

By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press

FILE - This March 18, 2010, file photo shows the YouTube website in Los Angeles. An advertising boycott of YouTube is broadening in a sign of the skepticism surrounding Google’s promise to prevent marketing campaigns from appearing alongside repugnant videos. PepsiCo, Wal-Mart Stores and Dish Network became the latest companies to suspend their advertising on YouTube after The Wall Street Journal found Google’s automated programs placed their brands on five videos containing racist content. Even though the defections are continuing, most analysts aren’t worried yet. Starbucks and General Motors also joined in the YouTube boycott Friday, March 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

More big brands pull ads from YouTube in widening boycott

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

Google’s YouTube losing major advertisers upset with videos

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2015, file photo, a man walks past a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google is enabling users of its digital mapping service to allow their movements to be tracked by friends and family in the latest test of how much privacy people are willing to sacrifice in an era of rampant sharing. The location-monitoring feature will begin rolling out Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in an update to the Google Maps mobile app that’s already on most of the world’s smartphones. It will also be available on personal computers. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google Maps already tracks you; now other people can, too

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

This image provided by Google shows a screen grab of a smartphone demonstrating the use of a new search feature by Google called Shortcuts. Shortcuts are a new row of icons that appear below the Google search box that can be tapped so people can see the latest weather in the area, movie times, suggestions on places to eat or scores of their latest teams without typing anything into the search box. (Google via AP)

Google opens ‘shortcuts’ to information, tools on phones

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

St. Stephen Middle School student Lakaysha Governor works on her Chromebook on Monday, March 20, 2017, on a school bus recently outfitted with WiFi by tech giant Google, as College of Charleston professor RoxAnn Stalvey looks on in St. Stephen, S.C. Lakysha is one of nearly 2,000 students in South Carolina's rural Berkeley County benefiting from a grant from Google, which on Monday unveiled one of its WiFi-equipped school buses in the area. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Wi-Fi on wheels: Google helps students get online, on the go

By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press

This image provided by the Lacey Police Department shows a June 14, 2007, photo of a computer taken from the bedroom of the Timberline High School bomb hoaxer in Lacey, Wash. In 2007, a teenager who was sending bomb threats to his high school in Washington state was finally caught by an FBI agent posing as a journalist. Local police raided the home hours after the FBI pinpointed his location using surveillance software. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the photo, taken by investigators, via a public records request. (Lacey Police Department via AP)

How a school bomb-scare case sparked a media vs. FBI fight

By RAPHAEL SATTER - Associated Press

Google hopes to improve search quality with ‘offensive’ flag

By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press

Young Putnam County ATV racing champion refuses to lose

By ALI SCHMITZ - Associated Press

Johnston 6th grader wins state’s Google doodle contest

Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, FEB. 25, 2017- In this Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017 photo, a bicyclist rides by the green between Bakery Living Blue and Orange near Bakery Square, in Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh Tribune-Review investigation indicates that tax breaks meant to encourage revitalization of blighted areas have in recent years largely gone to private developers for apartments and hotels in some of Pittsburgh's hottest neighborhoods. A researcher calls the absence of tax breaks in the most blighted areas &quot;a huge red flag.&quot; (Nate Smallwood /Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)

In Pittsburgh’s fight against blight, some areas left behind

By THERESA CLIFT and AARON AUPPERLEE and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Associated Press

Police agencies divvy up $230 million settlement with Google

Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's self-driving program, speaks about their driverless car in San Francisco. A self-driving car company founded by Google is accusing a former top engineer of stealing pivotal technology that is propelling Uber's effort to assemble a fleet of automated vehicles for its popular ride-hailing service. The complaint cites evidence that Levandowski, a former manager in Google's self-driving car project, loaded 14,000 confidential files on a laptop before leaving to start his own company in 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Google-bred company accuses Uber of self-driving car theft

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

Can internet-beaming balloons outmaneuver shifting winds?

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

Microsoft lawsuit vs. secret government searches moves ahead

By MARTHA BELLISLE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, June 4, 2012, file photo, a girl looks at Facebook on her computer in Palo Alto, Calif. &quot;Fake news,&quot; which has gotten a lot of attention for its potential role in swaying the 2016 presidential election, has fascinated researchers for some time. Their studies have yielded tools that help track how &quot;alternative facts&quot; spread, and others that let you identify fake stories or block them altogether. Some of these are still baby steps in dealing with the phenomenon, but they're part of a larger effort that now involves Facebook, Google and big media companies actively trying to tamp down the spread of fake stories. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Fighting fake news isn’t just up to Facebook and Google

By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press