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2 days ago
Law

UK watchdog targets Google's 'strategic' role in search ads and a competitive market

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2 days ago
Miscellaneous

British authorities put Google search under regulatory microscope - UPI.com

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fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 days ago

Google hit by tougher scrutiny from UK's antitrust watchdog

Google holds dominant UK search and search-advertising market share (over 90%), triggering strategic market status that allows stricter regulatory oversight and potential enforcement measures.
UK news
fromAol
2 days ago

Google faces stricter regulation in UK over search dominance

UK regulator designated Google strategic in search, enabling interventions to boost competition by changing rankings, easing access to alternative engines, and enhancing publisher controls.
fromNewsday
2 days ago
Law

UK watchdog targets Google's 'strategic' role in search ads and a competitive market

fromUPI
2 days ago
Miscellaneous

British authorities put Google search under regulatory microscope - UPI.com

#antitrust
fromBenzinga
3 days ago
UK news

Google Designated Strategic Player In UK Search, Ad Market - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)

fromAol
2 days ago
Miscellaneous

UK watchdog targets Google's 'strategic' role in search ads and a competitive market

US politics
fromDigiday
6 days ago

Google's remedy phase explained: DOJ wants its offerings - and where the judge might land

The DOJ seeks to break Google's ad-tech monopoly by forcing divestiture, open-sourcing key ad code, or imposing behavioral remedies to alter incentives.
Tech industry
fromDigiday
6 days ago

Ad Tech Briefing: A Google breakup sounds ideal, but the realities are much more complicated

The court will decide whether Google must be structurally separated in display advertising, affecting access to bidding data, auction logic, and market competition.
fromBenzinga
3 days ago
UK news

Google Designated Strategic Player In UK Search, Ad Market - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)

fromAol
2 days ago
Miscellaneous

UK watchdog targets Google's 'strategic' role in search ads and a competitive market

fromDigiday
6 days ago
US politics

Google's remedy phase explained: DOJ wants its offerings - and where the judge might land

fromDigiday
6 days ago
Tech industry

Ad Tech Briefing: A Google breakup sounds ideal, but the realities are much more complicated

Miscellaneous
fromTechCrunch
2 days ago

UK slaps Google Search with special market status, making way for stricter regulations | TechCrunch

Google designated with strategic market status in UK search and search advertising, enabling stricter regulation to ensure fair competition.
#competition-and-markets-authority
#digital-markets-act
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
3 days ago

Google Try On Supports Shoes & Expands To Australia, Canada and Japan

Google upgraded the Try On feature to now support shoes, in addition to other forms of clothing. Plus, Try on will soon also work in Australia, Canada and Japan, Google announced. Google wrote, "Try on's state-of-the-art AI accurately perceives shapes and depths, preserving those subtleties when showing you what something would look like on you. Finally, you can answer the age-old question: "Can I pull off these shoes?."
E-Commerce
fromSemafor
4 days ago

OpenAI's greatest AI challenge is Google

There's been a lot of discussion lately about how to look at OpenAI, whose outsized ambitions have been on display, from its blockbuster deals with chipmakers to its AI-powered social networking app to its new products announced this week. Here's what this tells me: It's a juggernaut on a collision course with its nemesis, Google. This may not be today's headline, but Google is OpenAI's biggest potential long-term threat, and some of OpenAI's strategic moves seem to address that reality.
Artificial intelligence
Tech industry
fromArs Technica
1 week ago

F-Droid says Google's new sideloading restrictions will kill the project

Allowing Google to control developer verification risks ending F-Droid and centralizing Android app distribution through data collection and developer fees.
Privacy professionals
fromBloomberglaw
2 weeks ago

Google's $30 Million Young YouTube User Accord Gets First Nod

A federal court preliminarily approved Google’s $30 million settlement for collecting data from under-13 YouTube viewers, with eligible claimants receiving pro rata payments.
US politics
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Mark Zuckerberg wrote the playbook for Big Tech leaders dealing with Republicans. Google paid attention.

Big Tech denies systemic conservative bias while blaming the Biden administration and issuing letters that politically aid Republicans without admitting major wrongdoing.
US politics
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

I went to a demonstration by Google employees about H-1B visas. They want the company to speak out.

Unionized Google employees urged Google to publicly oppose Trump's $100,000 H-1B fee, criticized its silence, and demanded support for visa-holding workers.
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big Bang

Google figured out early on that video would be a great addition to its search business, so in 2005 it launched Google Video. Focused on making deals with the entertainment industry for second-rate content, and overly cautious on what users could upload, it flopped. Meanwhile, a tiny startup run by a handful of employees working above a San Mateo, California, pizzeria was exploding, simply by letting anyone upload their goofy videos and not worrying too much about who held copyrights to the clips.
Artificial intelligence
Digital life
fromeuronews
3 weeks ago

Your access to information online is changing forever

Search engines, led by Google, serve as the dominant gateway to the web, enabling diverse publishing while concentrating commercial power and enabling misinformation and monetisation dynamics.
fromEuractiv
3 weeks ago

Brussels hands Google an antitrust ticking time bomb | Euractiv

The EU's competition watchdog fined the US tech giant Google €2.95 billion earlier this month for breaching competition laws in the digital advertising technology market - giving it 60 days to fix its conduct. So what could Google do next? The von der Leyen Commission finally flexed its antitrust arm on big tech earlier this month - slapping Google with a €2.95 billion fine for violating competition rules in the AdTech market for over a decade.
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fromSan Jose Spotlight
3 weeks ago

Mountain View fines Google for cutting down 800-plus trees - San Jose Spotlight

Google will pay up to $703,000 to fund hundreds of replacement trees across Mountain View after cutting down more than 800 trees.
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