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Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, have left their executive roles at its parent company, Alphabet. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will become CEO of Alphabet while remaining chief at Google. Page had been CEO of Alphabet and Brin had been president. They will continue to be involved in the tech giant as…

Google and The Boxoffice Company, a collection of entertainment and tech businesses owned by French digital media giant Webedia, have teamed up to enhance the process of buying movie tickets online. The new setup aims to make the task of selecting showtimes and seats and then paying for and managing tickets more…

Google parent Alphabet saw its shares slide more than 1% in after-hours trading following the release of the tech giant’s third-quarter financial results. While the company exceeded Wall Street analysts’ estimates for total revenue, with $40.5 billion, earnings per share of $10.16 fell well short of the consensus…

Kanopy, the streaming film service that is free for users through a network of library partnerships, has made two senior management hires and set an expansion plan in Orange County, CA. Google veterans Dave Barney and Chase Rigby have joined the company as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product Officer…

Two and a half cheers for the Landmark Theatres in West Los Angeles. The parking escalators have been broken for weeks. Those purple and black staff outfits are a bit somber. And $15 dollars seems high for an hour and 35 minutes of Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice, as delightful as it is. But the Landmark, so…

Attorneys general from 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico appeared in front of the Supreme Court on Monday to unveil a major antitrust investigation of Google, the latest scrutiny in Washington facing the tech giant. The investigation, which involves top state legal officials from both parties…

The formal launch of long-rumored antitrust investigations into the activities of Google and Facebook are set to start next week, according to a Wall St. Journal report. The probe will look at whether the tech giants stifle competition in their spaces, specifically focusing on digital advertising and information…

UPDATE:  Apple has finally responded to a Google assertion of a massive security breach on iPhones, saying it created a “false impression of mass exploitation.” Google asserted in August that iPhones suffered a massive security breach, with hackers placing so-called “monitoring implants” in an untold number of…

UPDATED with more details: Google will pay $170 million to settle claims by the Federal Trade Commission anda New York Attorney General Letitia James that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children without their parent's consent. The record fine, which had been anticipated after news reports that…

Since tightening its controls on content in an effort to limit hate speech in June, YouTube says it removed 17,000 channels and 100,000 videos in the second quarter, both fivefold increases over previous periods. In a blog post Tuesday, the company said it has also reduced views on videos that are later removed for…

YouTube and parent company Google took down 210 channels after they posted a co-ordinated series of videos seen as undermining the anti-government protests in Hong Kong. Shane Huntley, director of Google’s Threat Analysis Group, confirmed the takedowns in a blog post, noting that the action was consistent with similar…

Already under investigation and review by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Alphabet could soon face similar probes in more than a dozen states. Appearing Tuesday at the the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum (see full video above), DOJ antitrust…