The sum from Apple eclipses pledges by fellow Silicon Valley giants Google and Facebook for addressing the lack of affordable housing in a region where affluent tech workers have helped drive up the cost of homes.
In a rare show of bipartisan force, attorneys general from 48 states along with Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia are investigating whether Google's huge online search and advertising business is engaging in monopolistic behavior.
Two bipartisan groups of state attorneys general are launching separate antitrust investigations into Facebook and Google, adding to regulatory scrutiny of two of the world's largest and most ubiquitous tech companies.
Google says contractors listen to recordings to better understand language patterns and accents.
The ban on selling technology to Huawei, the world's biggest maker of mobile network gear and the No. 2 smartphone brand, will be delayed by 90 days.
Controversy over white nationalism and hate speech has dogged online platforms such as Facebook and Google's YouTube for years.
"No one in the world has done this before, and it's important that we get it right."
The Massachusetts senator is proposing legislation targeting tech giants with annual revenue of $25 billion or more.
The project would bring an estimated 50 full-time tech jobs to the area.
Employees were seen staging walkouts at offices from Tokyo and Singapore to London and Dublin.
President Trump attempted to show Google's alleged bias by falsely claiming that search engine failed to promote his State of the Union address.
A satirical web site published a fictitious article claiming that an exec at Google admitted to rigging search results against President Trump.
A routine review of content labeled satire.
The singer was killed (again) by a death hoax.
Begs the question: How many Harry Potter movies, if any, is too many Harry Potter movies?
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Backlash against the rapper's comment on a podcast was swift.