Canada regulator to impose fee on Google for online news law's operating costsThe Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said the vast majority of its operations are funded by fees charged to the ...
27 Feb, 2025, 02.56 PM IST
Has Google renamed Canada as the 51st U.S. state, as Donald Trump claims?Google Maps has mislabeled several provincial parks in British Columbia and Alberta as state parks, causing confusion. In response, Google ...
25 Feb, 2025, 06.55 PM IST
Meta, Alphabet pushed to enter deals with Indonesia news firmsThe publishers' rule will push digital platforms to "support quality journalism" by entering licensing, revenue-sharing, data-sharing or ot...
22 Feb, 2024, 12.43 AM IST
News publishers are fighting Big Tech over peanuts. They could be owed billions.The settlement is far less than Canada wanted -- it had sought $126 million -- and a small fraction of the estimated $550 million that news...
08 Dec, 2023, 11.44 PM IST
Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry: Canada governmentThe agreement removes a threat by Google to block the ability to search for Canadian news on Google in Canada. Facebook and Instagram paren...
30 Nov, 2023, 11.18 AM IST
Canada, Google reach deal to keep news in search resultsThe Canadian government and Google have reached a deal to support the country's media, heading off an imminent threat by the digital giant ...
30 Nov, 2023, 12.11 AM IST
Google and Facebook's concerns over online news law being addressed, says CanadaCanada's Online News Act, part of a global trend to make Internet giants pay for news, became law in June and is expected to come into effe...
01 Sep, 2023, 08.55 PM IST
Meta's Canada news ban fails to dent Facebook usageDaily active users of Facebook and time spent on the app in Canada have stayed roughly unchanged since parent company Meta started blocking...
29 Aug, 2023, 03.52 PM IST
Meta starts blocking news in Canada over law on paying publishersThe Canadian government quickly denounced the move as "irresponsible," and said the world is watching the process play out in Canada.
02 Aug, 2023, 10.11 AM IST
Canada's government will stop advertising on Facebook and InstagramCanada's move is the latest episode in a spat that started after Trudeau's administration proposed a bill that would require technology com...
06 Jul, 2023, 12.10 AM IST
Meta to end access to news on Facebook, Instagram in CanadaMeta Platforms Inc said on Thursday it would end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada after parliament approved...
23 Jun, 2023, 08.20 AM IST
Google, Meta using 'bullying tactics' against Canada's news bill, says PM TrudeauThe proposed legislation is designed to compel internet giants like Google and Meta's Facebook to negotiate commercial deals and pay publis...
08 Jun, 2023, 08.25 AM IST
Google, Meta executives push back against Canada online news billGoogle and Meta would withdraw access to news articles in Canada if legislation compelling internet companies to pay news publishers is pas...
04 May, 2023, 09.36 AM IST
Canada parliament questions Google execs over news-blocking testGoogle has claimed that the test is like thousands of other product tests the company conducts on a regular basis.
11 Mar, 2023, 08.17 AM IST
Google tests blocking news content for some CanadiansLast year, Facebook warned that it might block sharing of news content on its platform in Canada over concerns about legislation that would...
23 Feb, 2023, 01.19 PM IST
- Ten nations call on Google to better defend privacy
Officials from 10 nations have banded together to demand that Internet giant Google make greater efforts to defend people's privacy.
21 Apr, 2010, 02.19 PM IST
- Google submits revised digital book settlement to US judge
Google and US authors and publishers submitted a revised settlement to a US judge on Friday seeking approval of an agreement that would cle...
14 Nov, 2009, 11.43 AM IST