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Google cutting web cookies, ending advertisers’ lucrative tracking tool

Editorial Bureau January 15, 2020

Alphabet Inc’s Google within two years plans to block a common way businesses track online surfers in its Chrome browser, endorsing costly changes to how the Web operates as it tries to satisfy increased privacy demands from users. Google’s plan is to restrict advertising software

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France fines Google 150 million euros for opaque advertising rules

Editorial Bureau December 22, 2019

PARIS- France’s competition watchdog fined Google 150 million euros ($167 million) on Friday for abusing its power over the treatment of advertisers, saying it applied opaque rules and changed them at will. It is the first penalty imposed by the French antitrust watchdog against the U.S. tech company in a number of clashes with French […]

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Google, Apple asked if apps like TikTok must disclose foreign ties

Editorial Bureau December 14, 2019

WASHINGTON- The chair of a U.S. congressional panel wrote to Alphabet’s Google and to Apple on Friday to ask what if any disclosures mobile apps are required to make regarding overseas ties, a concern that follows reports of Chinese investment in popular apps such as TikTok and Grindr. Rep. Stephen Lynch, chairman of a subcommittee […]

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Global financial watchdogs take aim at Big Tech’s data dominance

Editorial Bureau December 9, 2019

LONDON- Google, Alibaba and other “Big Tech” companies could be forced to share data on financial services customers with banks and financial technology firms to prevent unfair competition. As Facebook’s plan for its Libra “stablecoin” faces scrutiny, a global body of regulators from the world’s main financial centers said that Big

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Google co-founders step aside as Pichai takes the helm of the parent Alphabet

Editorial Bureau December 4, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai will replace Larry Page as CEO of parent Alphabet Inc, extending a long retreat from public roles and active management by Page and Sergey Brin at the company they co-founded 21 years ago. “While it has been a tremendous privilege to be deeply involved in the […]

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Axel Springer unit, others say Google still playing unfairly, want EU to act

Editorial Bureau November 29, 2019

BRUSSELS- Axel Springer’s price-comparison shopping service Idealo and 40 other European peers have accused Alphabet Inc’s Google of tilting the playing field in its favor and urged EU antitrust regulators to enforce a ruling against the company. The joint call by the group ratchets up pressure on European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager to take

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U.S. Supreme Court to hear Google bid to end Oracle copyright suit

Editorial Bureau November 16, 2019

WASHINGTON – On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Google’s bid to escape the multi-billion dollar lawsuit that Oracle Corp is accusing Google of. They claim Google is infringing software copyrights to build the Android operating system that runs most of the smartphones across the world. Google has placed an appeal for a […]