Op-ed: Oracle attorney says Google’s court victory might kill the GPL
Annette Hurst is an attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe who represented Oracle in the recent Oracle v. Google trial. This op-ed represents her own views and is not intended to represent those of her client or Ars Technica.
The Oracle v. Google trial concluded yesterday when a jury returned a verdict in Google's favor. The litigation began in 2010, when...
Google’s Paris office raided by police in tax probe
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Google’s Paris offices have been raided by hundreds of French investigators—the search giant is suspected of avoiding tax in the country to the tune of €1.6 billion (~$ 1.78 billion, £1.22 billion).
The French financial prosecutor’s office (Le parquet national financier, PNF) which carried out the raid in the early hours of Tuesday...
HTML5 by default: Google’s plan to make Chrome’s Flash click-to-play
Google will be taking another step towards an HTML5-only Web later this year, as the systematic deprecation and removal of Flash continues.
In a plan outlined last week, Flash will be disabled by default in the fourth quarter of this year. Embedded Flash content will not run, and JavaScript attempts to detect the plugin will not find it. Whenever Chrome detects that a site is...
Antitrust chief: Google’s restrictions on Android device makers breach EU law
Google faces more competition charges in the European Union, after the 28-member-state bloc's antitrust commissioner concluded in a preliminary decision that the company had abused its dominant position by imposing restriction on Android device makers.
A Statement of Objections—which outlines Brussels' charges—has been sent to Google this morning, competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said during a press conference on...
Revealed: Filings provide inside look at Google’s planned Seattle complex near Amazon’s HQ
Amazon will soon have a new neighbor in the form of a fellow tech giant.
As GeekWire reported on Thursday, Google plans to move...
Seattle Go players plan watch parties for Google’s man-vs.-machine showdown
This month’s human-vs.-machine Go match between South Korean...
Google’s self-driving car hits bus; company says it bears ‘some responsibility’
Google’s self-driving car hit a public bus on a busy street last month in the company’s hometown of Mountain View, Calif. — perhaps the first incident its smart cars causing an accident...
Inside Google’s new Kirkland campus: ‘Like a Willy Wonka chocolate factory’ for technology
Google ranks among the best when it comes to tech companies that build workspaces to encourage productivity and comfort. Its expanded campus in Kirkland, Wash. is certainly no exception. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, Kirkland Mayor Amy Walen, and hundreds of community...
Here are Google’s ‘top trending searches’ for 2015
Lamar Odom. Hurricane Patricia. Jurassic World. These were some of the “top trending searches” of 2015, according to Google’s “Year in Search” report. The lists “define the billions of searches across news, politics, film, entertainment, sports and more throughout 2015,” Google said. Lamar Odom, the...