May 21—An East Bay Democrat in the state Legislature announced the details Wednesday of a hard-fought partnership between California and Google to kick financial assistance toward the state's ...

A California court delivered a strong fine to Google over its "misuse" of Android users' data over cell connections.

Weeks after California announced a $250 million public-private partnership with Google to fund local news outlets and develop AI, many aspects of the deal remain uncertain.

Google, for now, will drop its 2025 contribution to a fund to support local newsrooms to $10 million from $15 million, matching California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s rollback in his latest state budget ...

Google has lost a recent case regarding data transfer on idle phones, with the company being fined $314.6 million by the ...

Google insisted on taxpayer funding to set a precedent that it could use in talks with other states seeking similar deals.

Google will pay $5 million less than it promised to a fund intended to help struggling California news outlets stay afloat, less than a year after committing to pay $15 million. The backstory: In ...

A two-year bipartisan effort by California lawmakers to make big internet search and social media companies — Meta and Google — pay publishers of newspapers struggling in the digital age for ...

Google avoids “link tax” bill with deal to fund California journalism and AI Critics say Google got off easy as it agrees to pay $55 million into news fund.

To avoid regulations, Google and California agreed to commit $45 million in one year to prop up local news outlets. The new program is starting with just half that amount.

Google already had begun experimenting with removing news links in California in response to AB 886, which would have required the tech giants to pay millions a year to publishers in perpetuity.

California, Google rework first-in-nation journalism deal amid state deficit Google, for now, will drop its 2025 contribution to a fund to support local newsrooms to $10 million from $15 million ...