U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California (Photo: ALM) A federal judge has granted final approval in a $117.5 million class action settlement over Yahoo Inc.’s data breaches but found that class counsel’s $30 million fee request was too high. Want to continue reading?Become a Free ALM Digital Reader. Benefits of a Digital Membership: Free access to 3 articles* every 30 days Access to the… Source link

Google will start paying for some news content after complaints from publishers. FOX Business’ Susan Li with more. Google launched its auto-delete feature, which deletes users’ location history and web browsing activity after three or 18 months, on June 24. The tech giant introduced the feature last year after facing scrutiny from Congress for collecting users’ location data and web browsing activity data. Prior to the auto-delete feature, users could manually delete this data. “We… Source link

A day after members of the San Francisco Giants knelt during the national anthem, Cincinnati Reds players followed suit. Joey Votto, Amir Garrett, Phillip Ervin and Alex Blandino all took a knee prior to Tuesday’s preseason home game against the Detroit Tigers. The game took place without fans in preparation for the start of the MLB season scheduled to begin Thursday, shortened to 60 games due to COVID-19. Votto, a former MVP and 6-time All-Star who has spent his entire career with the Reds… Source link

Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC have hired a pair of public policy experts to expand their antitrust and energy capabilities. Sean Pugh and James “Jamey” Goldin left Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath and Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, respectively, this month for in-house legal roles at the technology giants. Pugh, a former Senate Judiciary Committee staffer who served as antitrust counsel to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), confirmed in an email that he joined Amazon’s public… Source link

Carnival (CCL) CEO Arnold Donald is hopeful that cruising around the world isn’t too far off into the distance. Donald told Yahoo Finance on Tuesday during the All Markets Summit Extra sailing in Germany is about to commence in August and Italy may be next. It remains unclear when cruising in the U.S. will restart as the industry works tirelessly to implement new safety protocols to protect against COVID-19. Carnival’s voyage to the gates of the road to recovery has been turbulent to say… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yahoo Sports’ Launch Pad – Biggest Marlins blasts of the statcast era  Yahoo Sports Source link

Former Toys R Us CEO Gerald Storch on Walmart+ launching to compete with Amazon as titan retailers. Verizon Media announced it has partnered with Walmart for a unique grocery shopping venture that allows Yahoo Mail users to purchase their food staples online. The partnership, which has been named “Groceries from Walmart,” is the first of its kind. Yahoo users will be able to add items to their virtual shopping cart straight from their email inbox as well as keep track of promotions,… Source link

Update: Google has confirmed this issue is fixed. Today we became aware of an issue that impacted some navigational and site: operator searches. We investigated & have since fixed the bug. Contrary to some speculation, this did not target particular sites or political ideologies…. — Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) July 21, 2020 Google’s Danny Sullivan also quells some speculation that this issue specifically targeted particular sites. “Today’s issue affected sites representing… Source link

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Google and big tech censorship. Google had a technical issue Tuesday morning that temporarily removed the homepages of several news sites, both conservative and liberal, from its search results. For instance, when you Googled the Daily Caller, a conservative news site, stories about the Daily Caller would show up but not links to the Daily Caller’s home page. Google said the problem, which has been fixed, was a technical issue that was not based on the ideology of… Source link

on July 21, 2020 at 4:00 pm Netflix is now streaming on Google’s Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max smart displays. People with a subscription can link their Netflix account to their Gooogle Assistant or Google Home account to access the streaming service. The watcher can scroll on the touchscreen for what they want to watch or ask Google Assistant to open the app or start playing a specific show with a verbal command. Netflix Nest Netflix on Google Nest displays… Source link