24 Apr 2025

Tech: Could Google be broken up?

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 24 April 2025
Google apps such as Gmail, Drive, Play Store, Maps, and Chrome are being displayed on a smartphone with Google Alphabet visible in the background, in this photo illustration taken in Brussels, Belgium, on December 28, 2023. (Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto) (Photo by Jonathan Raa / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

Photo: NurPhoto via AFP

Technology journalist Bill Bennett looks at two court cases brought against Google that could have big implications for the company - and possibly how we use the internet.

LG has teamed up with a tech company Zenapse to develop a TV capable of reading your emotions - so you can be targeted with the right ads.

Research commissioned by 2degrees finds Kiwis are feeling overrun by notifications on their phones. 

Bill Bennett is an Auckland-based technology journalist