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 ...

$60 billion D. E. Shaw walks Insider through how it manipulated popular Google geolocation data. The firm is a big user of alt data, but warned it can be misleading without proper context. The ...

Google will let users opt out from wireless network mapping following the penalty order imposed by Dutch Data Protection Authority Google is offering wireless network owners worldwide the possibility ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Companies like TomTom have struggled for years to beat Google Map’s might in the world of navigation and geolocation, but a partnership facilitated by the Linux Foundation might offer them and the ...

The potential settlement comes six years after Google was accused of collecting children's personal data via YouTube to use ...

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 ...