Facebook was given 48 hours to stop tracking internet users or risk having to pay fines of up to €250,000 a day.

Local Awareness Ads from Facebook were launched more than a year ago, but now the company is updating the hyper-local service.

The third quarter profits for Facebook have seen a jump that is mainly due to increased advertising sales.

The latest new initiative from Google is called Project Wing, and it aims to achieve deliveries by drone to customers by 2017.

Eric Horvitz, Microsoft's head of research, has spoken out about the current debate surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and the concerns many people have about the way it might be used in the future.

Parent company Alphabet Inc. has plans for Google to integrate the Chrome operating system used for personal computers into the Android mobile operating system, which is widely used on some of the biggest-selling smartphones in the world.

Webmasters who employ “sneak mobile redirects" risk incurring the wrath of Google after a new warning from the search giant.

Since the very early days of the internet, the idea has been that the connections it offers should be truly global, as the early name of the “world web web” promised.

A new move by Google to increase ad targeting will now allow advertisers to target consumers based on email addresses that are uploaded to AdWords.

The latest news from Google is that the tech giant is now using a machine-learning artificial intelligence system called RankBrain.