Search giant Google is facing an EU fine totaling 890 million euros, equivalent to almost 10 billion Swedish kronor. According to the European Commission, Google favors its own services and thereby violates the EU's Digital Markets Act.
BusinessShares in Google owner Alphabet fell 3.4 percent in futures trading on Wall Street after the tech giant's earnings report on Wednesday evening Swedish time.
TechnologyGoogle's parent company, Alphabet, beat expectations in its second-quarter report. The company's AI-powered cloud services venture nearly doubled revenue.
TechnologyGoogle is appealing the ruling in the Patent and Market Court ordering it to pay damages to Klarna-owned Pricerunner in the record amount of SEK 14 billion, reports Dagens Industri.
TechnologyOpenAI is developing a portable, screen-free smart speaker intended to be a new kind of computer for the AI era, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.
TechnologySeveral major book publishers are suing Google for training the Gemini AI model with copyrighted books without permission or compensation, The Guardian reports.
EntertainmentTech giant Google, part of the Alphabet group, is among the investors in a multi-billion-euro venture to develop a fusion power plant in Germany.
BusinessThe EU's highest court has ruled that search giant Google must pay a fine of 4.1 billion euros, equivalent to 45.4 billion kronor, for violating competition rules.
BusinessThe dispute between Google and Pricerunner will be settled on Wednesday. Pricerunner's damages claim is SEK 77 billion. "We strongly oppose this lawsuit," writes Google Sweden communications manager Joakim Larsson.
BusinessIT giant Google may build a data center in Torsboda, in Timrå municipality north of Sundsvall.
BusinessAlphabet, Google's parent company, has entered into an agreement with Elon Musk's SpaceX to purchase computing power for $920 million per month (just over SEK 8.7 billion).
BusinessEurope wants to be independent - but doesn't dare to really break up with the US. President Donald Trump's every move is forcing new demands for independence in cloud services and chip purchases.
World politicsThe trading day in New York was relatively quiet as investors again followed developments between the United States and Iran.
BusinessA Google employee is suspected of using insider information to make millions gambling - and is now being charged with a crime, writes the BBC.
BusinessToday, Norwegian Zrch Group is launching a new site on the Swedish housing market to challenge Hemnet. The idea is to reach homebuyers via social media and Google. We see that there is a large target group that is completely untapped, says the company's Sweden manager, Chris Svensson.
BusinessGoogle is launching a new tool that allows users to search YouTube for so-called deepfakes, i.e., AI-generated videos that depict people.
BusinessAre the IT giants doing enough to protect users from scam ads? No, the Swedish Consumers' Association believes; it is now reporting Google, among others, to the European Commission.
SwedenNorthvolt's old premises could be transformed into a power-hungry data center, the largest in Europe - instead of becoming a site for battery manufacturing. This is what journalist and author Gunnar Lindstedt writes in the book "The Northvolt Case".
BusinessThe US Department of Defense (the Pentagon) has signed agreements with seven leading AI companies for military use of their technology. Anthropic was excluded.
TechnologyGoogle's parent company Alphabet released its quarterly report on Wednesday evening. Sales were better than expected.
BusinessGoogle may invest up to the equivalent of SEK 370 billion in AI giant Anthropic.
BusinessShop for underwear and socks directly through an AI service? That opportunity is now being launched by H&M's American competitor, Gap.
TechnologyDozens of victims of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had their identities revealed when the Justice Department released the so-called "Epstein Files." Six of them are now suing the government.
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