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WASHINGTON— Alphabet Inc.’s Google should be forced to turn over internal emails that it has withheld or redacted in the antitrust case filed against it by state and federal governments, the Justice Department said Monday. In a filing in U.S. District Court, the Justice Department said that Google improperly invoked legal privilege to shield sensitive internal communications, a practice it said has gone on for years. Source link

Google has settled with six engineers over claims the company squashed employees’ efforts to organize, as first reported by Motherboard. The specifics of the settlement remain under a non-disclosure agreement, but four of the workers who were allegedly fired out of retaliation for their labor activism in 2019 will not be reinstated, while one still remains employed by the tech giant. Four employees, Rebecca Rivers, Laurence Berland, Paul Duke, and Sophie Waldman, filed labor charges… Source link

Google settles over firing of workers protesting immigration cloud deal | WTVB | 1590 AM · 95.5 FM | The Voice of Branch County … Source link

(AP) – A former Google employee sued the tech giant for racial discrimination, saying it engages in a “pattern and practice” of unfair treatment for its Black workers. The suit claims the company steered them into lower-level and lower-paid jobs and subjected them to a hostile work environment if they speak out. April Curley was hired in 2014 to recruit Black candidates for the company. Her lawsuit, filed on Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San… Source link

WASHINGTON— Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -0.24% Google should be forced to turn over internal emails that it has withheld or redacted in the antitrust case filed against it by state and federal governments, the Justice Department said Monday. In a filing in U.S. District Court, the Justice Department said that Google improperly invoked legal privilege to shield sensitive internal communications, a practice it said has gone on for years. “For… Source link

Google has agreed to settle a National Labor Relations Board case filed by six former and current employees who said the company had illegally fired or disciplined them because of their unionization efforts. As part of the settlement, which was agreed upon on Friday, the former and current Google employees also agreed to dismiss a related court case in California. The settlement terms are bound by a nondisclosure agreement, said Laurie M. Burgess, a lawyer representing the former and current… Source link

The Justice Department has asked the judge overseeing its antitrust case against Google to sanction the company for allegedly training employees to “camouflage” business documents from being revealed by legal disputes, per a brief filed Monday. Driving the news: The DOJ writes in its brief that Google teaches employees to request advice from counsel around sensitive business communications, thereby shielding documents from discovery in legal situations. Once counsel is involved, the company… Source link

Google Stadia never quite set the video game world ablaze with a paradigm shift towards cloud game streaming, but it has quietly soldiered on as a convenient service for those who value playing the latest games on less-than-capable hardware. Its future remains a little bit unclear, with Google reportedly putting less priority on it internally. Though the service’s future may still carve out its niche among gamers seeking free demos and trials that are easy to test out, what if you… Source link

Google is giving advertisers in the automotive industry a new tool to fuel their marketing efforts in the form of an ad unit customized for vehicle sales. When people search for cars for sale, this new ad format shows vehicles to purchase nearby. The shift in online consumer behavior has transformed over the past two years. Not only are more people are turning to the web to find their next car, they’re making vehicle purchases online as well. A Google study finds 89% of new car buyers… Source link

U.S. asks judge to sanction Google in pretrial document fight | WTVB | 1590 AM · 95.5 FM | The Voice of Branch County