The backstory: The deal, announced last August, committed California and Google to each put tens of millions of dollars into a fund to be distributed to local news outlets over five years. In ...

A controversial $125 million deal California struck with Google last year to prop up the state's struggling journalism industry is already on track to shrink -- before any of the money has been ...

Google’s Local Guides program is an open-source project that allows contributors, officially called “Local Guides,” to upload photos, answers, reviews, edits and other content to Google Maps ...

The big hands of Google continue undermining local journalism, reaping billions of dollars in windfall profits off the backs of news organizations by lifting our work product without compensation.

Google is testing a newish section in the Google local panel to tell searchers how far that business is from your location. Google is testing adding either a "Get there" data point and/or a "From ...

The Senate sent the bill back to committee for reconsideration. The bill's sponsor said she would reintroduce the bill in ...