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The largest newspaper publisher in the U.S. is taking on one of the world’s largest tech corporations in court. USA Today’s parent company Gannett filed a lawsuit against Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. on Tuesday over alleged anti-competition tactics in digital advertising.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIGannett, which owns some of the nation’s biggest and longest-running newspapers, alleges in the filing that Google is rigging the system that’s used for ad sales on publisher…

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Google announced in January that it will layoff about 12,000 employees, or 6% of the company’s workforce. The departments that have been impacted by the layoff included Google Cloud, Chrome to Android, strategy, recruiting, go-to-market teams and the company's in-house research and development (R&D) division called Area 120, reports said.Google parent Alphabet asked a US federal judge on Monday to dismiss a Justice Department lawsuit alleging that the search giant illegally abused its dominance of online advertising.…

Google is reportedly working on a new shortcut for its Chrome browser that will let users close active tabs quickly. The new shortcut is likely to be a mouse input enabling users to close tabs by a double-click. Currently, the browser allows users to close open tabs by simply clicking the “X” on the tab or by using the Ctrl+W keyboard shortcut. Recently, Google's browser rolled out Memory and Energy Saver modes to reduce power consumption and enhance performance during active sessions.According to…

Google's recent job cuts pushed out several company veterans who were instrumental in building its massive display advertising business — an operation that's now in the crosshairs of the US government. At least five executives who have played key roles in Google's ad tech division lost their jobs as part of the workforce reductions, according to posts on LinkedIn and people familiar with the decisions. Three of the executives came to Google with DoubleClick, the ad-tech firm the search giant struck a deal to buy in…

Photo: Leon Neal / Staff (Getty Images)On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. Joined by eight state attorneys general, the federal government said the tech giant is running an illegal monopoly in the digital ad market, and it wants the courts to compel Google to sell its subsidiary ad businesses, breaking the company into several less hazardous pieces. “For 15 years, Google has pursued a course of anti-competitive conduct that has allowed it to halt the rise of rival…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Google Tuesday, accusing the tech giant of using its market power to create a monopoly in the digital advertising business over the course of 15 years.Google “corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry by engaging in a systematic campaign to seize control of the wide swath of high-tech tools used by publishers, advertisers and brokers, to facilitate digital advertising,” the Justice Department alleges. Eight state…