Google doesn't have to sell its wildly popular Chrome web browser, but it can't engage in exclusive search deals, US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled on Tuesday. Google must share limited search data and user-interaction data with "qualified competitors," but the company doesn't have to share its most valuable ads data.

Bank of America is upping its Apple stock price target to $260 in the wake of the antitrust ruling that sweeps away fears that Google wouldn't be able to pay the iPhone maker for preferred internet search engine positioning.

Mountain View search and digital-advertising giant must stop cutting deals with other companies to make its search engine and other products the only available choices on consumers’ devices.

The landmark ruling brings an end to the largest antitrust trial since 2000, although Google has vowed to appeal the remedy to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Shares of Google’s parent company soared to an all-time high Wednesday, a day after a federal court derailed the Justice Department’s (DOJ) attempt to break up the internet giant.

A federal judge ordered Google to hand over its search results and data to rival companies in a landmark antitrust case Tuesday.

A federal judge’s remedy stops short of making meaningful changes to how we use our phones, computers and the web.

Google offers the Gmail e-mail service, the video hosting platform Youtube, Google maps, Google Talk and the Google+ social network. In the last hour, hundreds of reports of an outage were reported to Down Detector. The most reported problems were with search (46 per cent), website (41 per cent) and login (13 per cent).

A US federal court has told Google to pay $425m (£316.3m) for breaching users' privacy by collecting data from millions of users even after they had turned off a tracking feature in their Google accounts.