Google ad trial: an ex-Facebook ad exec testifies the company signed the 2018 Jedi Blue deal with Google because it couldn't compete against Google's “monopoly”
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Google ad trial: an ex-Facebook ad exec testifies the company signed the 2018 Jedi Blue deal with Google because it couldn't compete against Google's “monopoly”
- Employees concluded ad tech ‘monopoly’ hurt competition — The social network eventually signed an agreement with Google
In the first day of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, prosecutors allege Google abused its size to dominate the sector through acquisitions and more
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US v. Google: Google's main economics expert says Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue earned from search ads via Safari, a figure that was meant to stay secret
Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google's defense at the Justice Department's antitrust trial in Washington.
Epic v. Google: Google agreed to pay Samsung $8B over four years in 2020 to make Google Search, Play Store, and Assistant the default on Samsung mobile devices
- Google paid Samsung $8 billion over four years, jurors told — Epic Games is trying to show Alphabet unit undercut rivalry
US v. Google: Google's main economics expert says Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue earned from search ads via Safari, a figure that was meant to stay secret
Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google's defense at the Justice Department's antitrust trial in Washington.
US v. Google: Google's main economics expert says Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue earned from search ads via Safari, a figure that was meant to stay secret
Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google's defense at the Justice Department's antitrust trial in Washington.
US v. Google: Google declared a “Code Yellow” emergency in February 2019 for seven weeks, reassigning engineers to figure out why user search queries had slowed
- Search executive said team was ‘getting too involved with ads’ — Company declared emergency in 2019 over slow query growth
US v. Google: Google's search head testifies that the company spent $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine in multiple browsers, phones, and platforms
Even if it's easy to switch browsers or platforms or search engines, the one that appears when you turn it on matters a lot.
US v. Google: Google's search head testifies that the company spent $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine in multiple browsers, phones, and platforms
Even if it's easy to switch browsers or platforms or search engines, the one that appears when you turn it on matters a lot.
Sources: Microsoft discussed selling Bing to Apple around 2020, a deal that would have replaced Google as the default search engine on Apple's devices
- Microsoft executives pitched Apple's Cue on a deal around 2020 — Apple ultimately stuck with Google as default search engine
Sources: Microsoft discussed selling Bing to Apple around 2020, a deal that would have replaced Google as the default search engine on Apple's devices
- Microsoft executives pitched Apple's Cue on a deal around 2020 — Apple ultimately stuck with Google as default search engine
The US DOJ removes public access to Google's emails, charts, and internal presentations that came out as evidence in its antitrust lawsuit against the company
Trial is already limited in visibility to those who personally attend court … Google had challenged the government's posting …
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard agree to extend their merger agreement to October 18, pending the outcome of negotiations with UK regulators
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have agreed to extend their merger agreement pending the outcome of negotiations with UK regulators.
Sources: Microsoft and Activision Blizzard mull the sale of some UK cloud-based gaming rights to a telecom, gaming, or internet company to appease regulators
- Companies may give up some control of UK cloud gaming unit — US, UK regulators have come out against the $69 billion deal
A US district judge denies the FTC's motion to stay Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition; the FTC is still seeking emergency action by the 9th Circuit
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The FTC proposes penalizing companies for shady review practices, including fining companies buying fake reviews up to $50K for each time a customer sees one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Twitter: Jess Miers / @jess_miers : ICYMI: The FTC is cracking down on fake reviews, teeing up yet another #Section230 conflict. https://www.was...
FTC docs: Lina Khan did not recuse herself in the Meta/Within acquisition case, despite a top FTC ethics official's advice, which left it up to her to decide
The Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan declined to recuse herself from an FTC case against Meta Platforms Inc. …
Amazon agrees to pay $25M to settle FTC and DOJ charges over the company keeping Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data collected from children for years
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Amazon agrees to pay $25M to settle FTC and DOJ charges over the company keeping Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data collected from children for years
Regulators said the tech giant kept children's Alexa voice recordings “forever,” violating a children's privacy law.