Kremlin says Google should lift its YouTube block on Russian broadcastersGoogle stopped serving ads to users in Russia in March 2022 and paused monetisation of content which it deemed to exploit, dismiss or condo...
31 Oct, 2024, 06.00 PM IST
Google restricts creation of new accounts in Russia: report"The ministry confirms that Google has restricted the creation of new accounts," Interfax quoted the digital ministry as saying. "Telecom o...
26 Sep, 2024, 06.08 PM IST
US Senate panel urges treasury department to make tech firms comply with sanctionsDemocratic US senator Mark Warner, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote a letter to treasury secretary Janet Yellen in which ...
30 Jan, 2024, 04.24 PM IST
Google terminates thousand of YouTube channels in China, Russia, BrazilGoogle terminated 5,197 YouTube channels and 17 Blogger blogs as part of its ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations li...
04 Dec, 2022, 12.55 PM IST
Google's Russian subsidiary to file for bankruptcy after bank account seizedThe Alphabet Inc unit has been under pressure in Russia for months for failing to delete content Moscow deems illegal and for restricting a...
19 May, 2022, 10.53 AM IST
Google has removed over 3.4 billion ads, says company's annual ads safety reportBetween 2020 and 2021, Google said it has tripled the number of account-level suspensions for advertisers. Abusing The Ad Network, Adult Co...
04 May, 2022, 09.17 PM IST
Russian hackers targeted NATO, eastern European militaries - GoogleGoogle's Threat Analysis Group, in a report, did not say which militaries had been targeted in what Google described as "credential phishin...
31 Mar, 2022, 01.44 PM IST
How powerful is the Silicon Valley's Russian crackdown - and what does it mean for the world?The first major conflict of the 21st century, the Russia-Ukraine war, is already posing effects throughout the world. While bombing, shelli...
12 Mar, 2022, 09.21 PM IST
Apple, Ford, other big US brands join corporate wave shunning RussiaApple Inc late on Tuesday said it had stopped sales of iPhones and other products in Russia, adding that it was making changes to its Maps ...
02 Mar, 2022, 12.26 PM IST
Big tech grapples with Russian state media, propagandaGoogle announced Tuesday that it's blocking the YouTube channels of those outlets in Europe "effective immediately" but acknowledged "it'll...
01 Mar, 2022, 06.57 PM IST
As Russia invades Ukraine, Moscow battles big tech to control the narrativeFor the tech companies, the stand-off is the latest step in an ongoing confrontation with Russia where platforms risk government-imposed re...
28 Feb, 2022, 11.35 PM IST
As Russia invades Ukraine, Moscow battles big tech to control the narrativeFor the tech companies, the stand-off is the latest step in an ongoing confrontation with Russia where platforms risk government-imposed re...
28 Feb, 2022, 09.15 AM IST
Google blocks Russia's RT app downloads on Ukrainian territoryThe move means that new users will not be able to download the RT News app in Ukraine while current users may still be able to access it bu...
27 Feb, 2022, 11.36 PM IST
Google blocks RT, other Russian channels from earning ad dollarsCiting "extraordinary circumstances," Google's YouTube unit said it was "pausing a number of channels' ability to monetize on YouTube."
27 Feb, 2022, 10.24 AM IST
YouTube shuts German channels of Russian broadcaster RTYouTube said RT's German branch had received a "strike" for uploading material that violated YouTube's standards on Covid-19 misinformation...
29 Sep, 2021, 05.01 PM IST
Russia adds Google IPs to registry of banned sitesRussia has ordered the popular Telegram messaging app to shut down because it won't share its encryption key with intelligence agencies.
22 Apr, 2018, 09.42 PM IST
- Russia halts Google's purchase of ad service
Russian authorities have blocked Google Inc from buying an online ad service.
24 Oct, 2008, 02.10 AM IST