The whistle-blowing site has accused Google of handing information to the US authorities without notifying it until almost three years later.
Social media, games and fitness dominate the app stores of three of the major smartphone platforms in South Africa, writes Arthur Goldstuck.
Forget freezing eggs – firms should welcome pregnancy as a chance to invest in its staff.
Although we are living in an age of infinite information, existing in a comfortable bubble has never been easier, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Google is removing the results of searches of some people’s names in line with a court ruling, which has protected people’s “right to be forgotten”.
Google South Africa was down for all of a few minutes, if you blinked, you missed it. Some didn’t though, because they don’t blink.
To have a private company make decisions that affect the media via an opaque process is to invite a legal, ethical and practical disaster.
Do requests to delete data lead to an ‘internet with borders’? Ombud Franz Krüger explores.
Johnny Depp’s film "Transcendence" highlights that the battle for "the singularity" – the merging of man and machine – is closer than we think.
Not many people have heard of Vic Gundotra. Yet millions of us have used one or more of the products he championed during his eight years at Google.
It sprang from the brain of one man, Tim Berners-Lee, and is the fastest-growing communication medium of all time.
The London-based firm DeepMind, set up by a chess-prodigy-turned-neuroscientist, is Google’s biggest European acquisition.
An appeals court has ruled that Apple did not use patented technology owned by Google unit Motorola Mobility in making its iPhones.
AT CES this week, Yahoo head Marissa Meyer stepped up the ailing search company’s battle plans as it prepares to take on Microsoft and Google.
Google and Yahoo! are fuming over revelations that the agency intercepted their users’ records.
Google’s latest app Wallet has represented a challenge to the Passbook program that Apple built into the iPhone’s operating system.
Analysts estimate that Twitter could be valued at as much as $15-billion if it comes to market at the end of this year.
People sending emails to Google’s Gmail users have no "reasonable expectation" that it will be confidential, says the company in a court filing.
It takes something special to remind us of the wonders of technology, and Google Loon is one of those projects, writes Alistair Fairweather.
The revelations about the Prism programme, which links NSA computers to Google, Facebook and Apple, among others, matter to South Africa.
The massive brands the world trusts with their information have been struggling to respond to evidence that they leaked user’s information to Prism.
The Jasper power plant by Google will generate sufficient energy for 30 000 homes.
Google’s chairperson, Eric Schmidt, says he welcomes promises by international leaders to crack down on tax loopholes exploited by the search firm.
Google is under fire for the amount of tax it pays, particularly in smaller countries. So how un-evil is Google? Stuart Thomas takes a closer look.
Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its Glass wearable computer during this week’s developer conference.
Even though Google Glass is doomed to fail, we should thank tech companies for experimenting, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Is Google a force for openness and good, or a repressive monopoly?
Google’s new privacy policy has been under legal attack from regulators in its largest European markets.
Executive chairperson of Google Eric Schmidt has described China as "the most egregious" example of a nation attempting to control the internet.
Google is understood to be in negotiations with major music labels over launching a streaming service, similar to Spotify, later this year.
Google is rumoured to be opening retail stores later this year. Alistair Fairweather looks at why the search engine business needs retail presence.
After years of threats and lawsuits, the French publishing industry has essentially blackmailed Google into paying for linking to its websites.