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A U.S. judge said on Monday he will consider arguments in a disputed order related to the protection of confidential information in the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit filed against Alphabet Inc's Google LLC unit.

WhatsApp has received approval to roll out its payments service in India starting with 20 million users, the country's flagship payments processor said on Thursday, giving the Facebook-owned app an entry into a crowded digital payments space.

A U.S. judge said on Wednesday he was uncertain if he had a legal basis to bar the U.S. Commerce Department from imposing restrictions on video-sharing app TikTok after a Pennsylvania judge had already blocked the government's plan on Friday.

Self-driving tech company Waymo is temporarily suspending driving operations in San Francisco on Tuesday and Wednesday for safety reasons amid the ongoing U.S. elections, the company said.

Facebook Inc <FB.O> on Thursday warned of a tougher 2021 despite beating analysts' estimates for quarterly revenue as businesses adjusting to the global coronavirus pandemic continued to rely on the company's digital ad tools.

Google parent Alphabet Inc on Thursday powered back to sales growth, beating analysts' estimates for the third quarter as businesses initially hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic resumed advertising with the internet's biggest supplier of ads.

Google parent Alphabet Inc returned to sales growth in the third quarter as businesses initially hobbled by the COVID-19 pandemic resumed advertising with the internet's biggest supplier of search and video ads, it said on Thursday.

Alphabet Inc's <GOOGL.O> Google said on Thursday it plans to launch a VPN service for consumers, which would be available with certain subscription plans for its Google One cloud storage services.

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A U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing on a key social media legal protection was briefly delayed when Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg struggled to appear remotely.

The chief executives of Twitter Inc, Facebook and Alphabet Inc will tell U.S. lawmakers a 1996 law is crucial to free expression on the internet, according to written testimony seen by Reuters.

Alphabet Inc's autonomous driving technology development unit, Waymo, and a division of Germany's luxury carmaker Daimler AG have teamed up to make heavy-duty, self-driving trucks in the United States, the companies said on Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on Monday set a status hearing on the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc's Google for Friday.

A U.S. appeals court on Monday rejected a Justice Department request that it allow the government to immediately ban Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google from offering Tencent's WeChat for download in U.S. app stores.

A U.S. judge in San Francisco on Friday rejected a Justice Department request to reverse her decision blocking the government from barring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google from offering Tencent's WeChat for download in U.S. app stores.

Alphabet Inc's Google must respond to the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit by Dec. 19, according to a court filing on Friday.

The selection of U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, nominated to the court by President Barack Obama, to hear the U.S. Justice Department's case against Alphabet's Google <GOOGL.O>, suggests a tough courtroom battle ahead for the $1-trillion search and advertising company.

The S&P 500 climbed on Wednesday helped by gains in internet companies Facebook and Alphabet, while investors waited for signs that Washington could be close to agreeing on the next coronavirus aid package to support a fragile economic recovery.

The U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit against Alphabet Inc's Google kicks off what is expected to be a long legal battle over whether the online search and advertising company uses its outsized market power unfairly.