A decade or so ago, I thought Google needed a newer mission than “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Having ...

Windows 10 wasn’t perfect; these examples of what it did right are cherry-picked. But part of the operating system’s ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Microsoft is getting desperate in its attempts to stop people using Google Chrome instead of Edge – but it risks annoying even more people.

In 2015, Google invested around $900 million in SpaceX for a stake of around 7%. SpaceX is reportedly planning to go public next year at a valuation of $1.5 trillion. That would make Google's stake ...

Google is being forced to cap all default search and AI app deals at one year. This will end the long-term agreements (think: Apple, Samsung) that helped secure its default status on billions of ...

Google (GOOG)(GOOGL) must limit its partnerships with smartphone and other smart device developers, such as Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (SSNLF), to one year when it comes to making its search engine or ...

A conversation with Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers at Web Summit in Lisbon in November featured many such “things-could-be-worse” moments, starting with my question about the U.S. District Court for the ...

A federal judge has expanded on the remedies decided for the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Google, ruling in favor of putting a one-year limit on the contracts that make Google's ...

A federal judge ordered Google to limit default search and AI app contracts to one year. The ruling follows a 2024 finding that Google illegally monopolized online search markets. The decision aims to ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google must renegotiate any contract to make its search engine or artificial intelligence app the default for smartphones and other devices every year, a federal judge ruled. Judge ...