Is Google’s domination of the internet finally over? Search me…

Questions are being asked about the web giant’s waning powers, but it may just be a storm in an online teacup

Facebook’s solidarity with Ukraine is impressive. Now extend it to others

Powerful tech platforms like Facebook and Instagram act very differently when people make even mild criticisms of, say, Israeli occupation of Palestine

Google gives Black workers lower-level jobs and pays them less, suit claims

Lawsuit accuses company of ‘racially biased corporate culture’ in which Black people comprise just 4.4% of employees

Malaysian government’s ‘gay conversion’ app pulled by Google Play

App claimed that it could help LGBT+ people ‘return to nature’ but the tech company has now made it unavailable for downloads

Google profiting from ‘predatory’ loan adverts promising instant cash

The ads, some offering loans delivered ‘faster than a pizza’, appear to deliberately target those in financial trouble

How Silicon Valley’s Russia crackdown proves its power – and its threat

Tech companies took swift action to back Ukraine, a watershed moment for an industry with control over information

YouTube blocks Russian state-funded media channels globally

The Google-owned platform said the invasion of Ukraine fell under its violent events policy and violating material would be removed

Mauritius asks Google to label Chagos Islands as part of its territory

Row breaks out over Google Maps definition as UK insists it still maintains sovereignty

Google to limit amount of personal information shared on Android

Shift comes a year after Apple curtailed amount of personal data shared by users of its mobile operating system

TechScape: Google is changing how it tracks us online – but who benefits?

In this week’s newsletter: a radical rethink of how the company uses cookies seems at first to be a win for privacy advocates. Here’s what you need to know

Google remains dominant as company reports quarterly profits of $20bn

Fourth-quarter revenues of $75.3bn for parent company Alphabet, even as big tech faces growing scrutiny over digital ad dominance

Return to the office or turn digital nomad? If only ordinary workers had that choice

Airbnb’s boss says post-pandemic we could all enjoy being ‘untethered’ from workplaces while the architect of Googleplex thinks offices need to be reimagined. Perhaps it’s time to stop asking billionaires about the future of work