A Georgia company is suing Google over technology that the search giant uses to target advertising at Web surfers based on their location. Digital Envoy filed the lawsuit Monday afternoon in U.S.

Google Inc. has launched Gears Geolocation, an API for mobile and desktop browsers to provide location-based services. Two third-party developers are launching the first location-enabled Web ...

A federal judge in Virginia sided with Google this week on its motion for judgment on the pleadings in a dispute over patents related to geolocation of mobile devices. Google argued, and the court ...

Google has agreed to pay a sum of $391.5 million to settle a privacy lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of 40 states over deceptive location tracking tactics, the Oregon Department of Justice ...

Websites employ web tracking for collecting relevant information about their visitors to serve them personalized content. A subset of web tracking, which is widely used in location tracking these days ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Google has signed the nearly $1.4 billion settlement that was originally ...

For trademark counsel already monitoring computer screens for keyword search results on a daily basis, the prospect of highly-targeted advertising that changes street by street in the physical world ...

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Apparently informing your friends that you’re eating a turkey sandwich at the deli down the street is the most “interesting” fad of the moment, and Google wants the biggest slice of cake. At the Web 2 ...

The companies include Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and TomTom, which together could facilitate a new wave of geolocation apps. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes Some of Google’s biggest ...

To the untrained eye, this spring saw the return of Americans eating out and shopping at their favorite restaurants and stores at nearly the same level as pre-COVID times. According to Google mobility ...