31 posts tagged ‘Antitrust’
More from the US v Google trial: Vertical search, pre-installs and the case of Firefox/Yahoo
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We’re nearly two months into the Justice Department’s landmark antitrust case against Google — one of the biggest fights in tech antitrust since the U.S. took Microsoft to trial in the 1990s — and the revelations just keep getting juicier. In our last roundup, we learned how Google spent $26.3 billion in 2021 making itself […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Will the Government Rein in Amazon?
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The Federal Trade Commission is suing the company. Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., tells David Remnick that Amazon exploits its position as a monopoly to invisibly drive up costs.
5 things we learned from the Epic-Google antitrust case this week
Though Match settled its antitrust case with Google over Play Store fees for north of $300 million, Fortnite maker Epic Games proceeded to take its case to trial this week. The game maker argues that Google’s commissions on in-app purchases are anti-competitive and that Google has exerted its power in the marketplace to unfairly compete […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Apple’s Three Safaris
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Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim – that it offers not one but three distinct web browsers, all coincidentally named Safari.Never mind that Apple itself advertises the sameness of its Safari browsers when pitching its Continuity feature: “Same Safari. Different device.”Cupertino also […]
Cue Testimony in US v. Google
David Pierce (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple is in court because of something called the Information Services Agreement, or ISA: a deal that makes Google’s search engine the default on Apple’s products. The ISA has been in place since 2002, but Cue was responsible for negotiating its current iteration with Google CEO Sundar Pichai in 2016. […]
Dischler Testimony on AdWords Fraud
Adi Robertson: As the second week of the US v. Google antitrust trial gets underway, the Department of Justice is focusing on the real moneymaker behind Google Search: ads. It alleges that Google’s dominance lets it raise prices for advertisers with few repercussions — a claim backed up by Google ads executive Jerry Dischler on […]
Google Changes Search Queries to Show More Ads
Megan Gray (via Jason Kottke): When you enter a query, you might expect a search engine to incorporate synonyms into the algorithm as well as text phrase pairings in natural language processing. But this overhaul went further, actually altering queries to generate more commercial results.There have long been suspicions that the search giant manipulates ad […]