FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Google logo is seen in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s Competition Board said on Wednesday it had fined Google more than 296 million lira ($36.65 million) for abusing its dominant position in the search engine services area. In a statement, it said Google had provided advantages to its own accommodation price comparison and its local search services over their competitors. In addition to… Source link

FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Google logo is seen in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey’s Competition Board has fined Alphabet Inc’s Google more than 296 million lira ($36.65 million) for abusing its dominant position in search engine services, the regulator said on Wednesday. In a statement, it said Google had favored its own price comparison for accommodations and its local search services over those of competitors.

Bloomberg Deliveroo to Dimon Stoke Fears About London’s Post-Brexit Future (Bloomberg) — If Deliveroo Holdings Plc’s listing was meant to hang an ‘Open For Business’ sign over the City of London, the opening day crash in the shares jarred somewhat with the message the U.K. had intended to send about post-Brexit Britain.Personally welcomed by Chancellor Rishi Sunak, the food delivery company’s initial public offering should have been a beacon to lure tech firms against competition… Source link

Google is reportedly making inroads toward creating a patient health record tool.   According to STAT’s Erin Brodwin, the company is recruiting patients to weigh in on how they want to access their own medical record data – potentially to help shape user-facing software.    “Google is running a user feedback program to test features that give users the ability to collect health information from their provider patient portals, organize, search and share it with the people they trust in… Source link

SAN JOSE — Google’s first property purchase for its downtown San Jose transit village was an aging telephone company building — and now that area is slated to be the spot for the neighborhood’s first development sites. Office buildings, housing, and a cultural center would be part of the initial stages of the development of the Downtown West transit-oriented neighborhood that Google has proposed for a mile-long stretch near the Diridon train station and SAP Center — if city… Source link

SAN JOSE — Google’s first property purchase for its downtown San Jose transit village was an aging telephone company building — and now that area is slated to be the spot for the neighborhood’s first development sites. Office buildings, housing, and a cultural center would be part of the initial stages of the development of the Downtown West transit-oriented neighborhood that Google has proposed for a mile-long stretch near the Diridon train station and SAP Center — if city… Source link

The Oracle of Omaha has become a streaming star. Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate’s moves are closely followed by the investment community, presides over the company’s annual meeting each spring. While every company has a shareholder event, Berkshire’s is something different. With 40,000 fervent attendees, it is equal parts financial forum, convention, rally and county fair. Held in non-pandemic times in the company’s Nebraska home base Omaha, it yields… Source link

Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) saw unusually large options trading activity on Tuesday. Stock investors acquired 7,627 call options on the company. This is an increase of 1,573% compared to the typical daily volume of 456 call options. Several hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Royal London Asset Management Ltd. raised its stake in shares of Yandex by 4.7% in the 1st quarter. Royal London Asset Management Ltd. now owns 106,168 shares of the information services… Source link

Russia’s competition watchdog has launched a formal probe into Yandex, alleging the country’s largest technology company could be abusing its dominant position in the search market to promote its own services at the expense of competitors. The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) said Tuesday that Yandex has failed to comply with a previous warning that it must stop favoring its own products in search results. Shares in the technology giant, which is listed on the U.S. Nasdaq… Source link

(Bloomberg) — U.S. futures were steady, while stocks advanced, as traders turned their attention to earnings reports from companies including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Treasury yields rose. European equities got a boost from positive updates by LVMH and SAP SE, while some of the biggest U.S. banks are due to release results later on Wednesday. Most Asian stocks climbed, although shares dipped in Japan amid concerns about the slow vaccine rollout. Discovery Inc…. Source link