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ANALYSIS Google and other Internet companies may soon have to reckon with lawsuits over sex trafficking if a Senate bill designed to combat the trade online is passed by the US Congress.

Project Wing, an initiative of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is testing the ability of its drone technology to make deliveries directly to residences on the border of the ACT and NSW.

Three former women employees of Google have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, alleging they were paid less than their male counterparts who had similar roles.

Nearly three months after the EU hit it with a €2.42 billion (US$2.7 billion) fine, Google has launched an appeal against it in the General Court, Europe's second-highest court.

A woman who lives in Kansas City had her Internet service with Google Fibre — a division of Alphabet, the parent company of the search engine — cut over a matter of 12 cents last month.

The New America Foundation, a think-tank which received large infusions of funds from Google, sacked the head of its Open Markets group after he cheered the European Union for hitting the search firm with a fine of US$2.7 billion in June.

Search behemoth Google has bowed to the demands of the European Union that it make changes to ensure that its search engine dominance does not give illegal advantage to its own comparison shopping service.

Second-quarter profits have been affected at Google and its parent company Alphabet, with the hefty European Union fine levied on the search giant and traffic acquisition costs being two factors responsible.

The EU is contemplating another record fine against Google over how it pays and limits mobile phone providers who use the search company's Android mobile operating system and app store.

The European Commission has hit Google with a fine of €2.42 billion (US$2.7 billion) for allegedly abusing its search engine dominance to give illegal advantage to its own comparison shopping service.

Google's parent company Alphabet is set to report its first quarter results overnight and predictions are that its ad issues with YouTube will not result in a fall in revenue.

Google always gives as good as it gets. That has been the hallmark of the company that now owns both Web and mobile search and takes a big share of the revenue from advertising on both platforms.

Google's YouTube video-sharing site has announced that it will block ads appearing on any video channels that have less than 10,000 views.

The Chrome browser increased its marketshare to 56.43% by the end of 2016, according to figures from Net Applications, a company that tracks key Internet technology usage market share and publishes them under the title NetMarketShare.

Google avoided paying US$3.6 billion in taxes globally in 2015 by shifting US$15.5 billion (€14.9 billion) to a company in Bermuda that is just a shell, according to regulatory filings made in the Netherlands.

In the coming days, Android Auto 2.0 is coming to every Android OS 5.0 or better phone in over 30 countries, so even if you don’t have a fancy modern car you can enjoy the ‘connected experience.’

Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet, submitted a detailed draft to a key Clinton aide on 15 April 2014, outlining his ideas for a possible run for the presidency and stressing that "key is the development of a single record for a voter that aggregates all that is known about them".

Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet, expressed a desire more than two years ago to be the "head outside adviser" to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, according to an email released by WikiLeaks.

Google's parent company Alphabet has scaled back its Google Fibre project, with about 9% of the staff of the Access unit that includes the Fibre project to lose their jobs.

Issues with Google's Gmail service that led to a breakdown of the service were resolved after nearly 17 hours, according to the company's app status page.