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Google has settled a case over location tracking brought by 40 attorneys-general in the US, paying US$391.5 million (A$578.95 million) in what is claimed to be the biggest multi-state attorney-general privacy settlement in the US.

Despite the strictures on American companies doing business with Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies, Washington appears to have given the green light for the sale of semiconductors for Huawei's growing automotive technology business.

Search behemoth Google may have another challenge on its hands next month, with a group of US states, both Republican and Democrat-run, planning a second anti-trust suit against the company.

The US has filed a civil anti-trust suit against search firm Google, saying it was aimed at stopping the company, which dominates the sector, "from unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anti-competitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising markets and to remedy the competitive harms".

The US Federal Communications Commission has unveiled a formal plan to block subsidies to Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE for gear supplied to rural and small carriers.