Google has been dealt a significant blow in one of its key overseas markets. India’s Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block an antitrust order that requires the Android-maker to make a series of changes that could topple its financial viability. India’s apex court rejected to block the ruling against Google by the nation’s antitrust watchdog Competition Commission of India. The court extended the deadline for enforcement of CCI’s order by one week,… Source link

Russia’s Gazprom-Media initiated the blocking and removal of more than 7 million links to illegally placed copies of its content on the internet in 2022. This, according to the holding, was 67% more than in 2021 (4.2 million). It included 4.6 million links from Yandex search results (2.6 million in 2021) and 2.8 million from Google search results (0.9 million in 2021). During the year, the holding initiated 854 lawsuits. Some of them included claims for property compensation for copyright… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Alphabet Inc.’s Google failed to avert a 13 billion-rupee ($160 million) fine in an appeal to India’s Supreme Court in an antitrust case, which charged the company with abusing its dominant market position for its Android mobile operating system. Most Read from Bloomberg The country’s top court on Thursday rejected Google’s plea for interim relief and asked the companies’ appeals court to dispose off the matter by March 31. However, it gave Google another week to… Source link

Rep. George Santos in the House chamber on January 6, 2023.AP Photo/Alex Brandon Rep. George Santos competed as a drag performer in 2008, former acquaintances said. Santos, who is gay, has backed anti-LGBTQ legislation and conspiracy theories. Santos has faced a slew of allegations related to his past, and has admitted lying about his resume. Embattled GOP Rep. George Santos competed as a drag queen in Brazil in 2008, according to two acquaintances, despite the new lawmaker, who is gay, now… Source link

Experts say ChatGPT could be a game-changer for Microsoft, as CEO Satya Nadella announces plans to roll out the technology across all of the company’s products. Microsoft plans to make OpenAI’s generative AI technology such as ChatGPT available to billions of users by integrating it into all of its products, CEO Satya Nadella said this week. That means that ChatGPT’s ability to generate text through short prompts is likely on its way to the Office 365 product suite, including Microsoft… Source link

Google made a few mistakes with its Stadia cloud gaming service. Maybe more than a few. Okay, it made a lot of promises it didn’t keep and said a lot of things that look pretty laughable in hindsight and totally pulled the rug out from under its indie developers. We did our best to warn you! And yet, I don’t think Stadia will be remembered poorly now it’s gone — because in the end, Google did right by its customers. Pay attention, rival companies: this is how you shut down a service… Source link

Expect financial market and economic chaos to ensue if U.S. lawmakers don’t find a resolution on the debt ceiling this time around. “If there was even a temporary default on the U.S. debt, it would really be a financial catastrophe,” NYU professor and economist Nouriel Roubini told Yahoo Finance Live at the World Economic Forum (video above). “So if you default on the debt, domestic and foreign investors in the private sector are not going to buy your bonds, and you’ll have a spike in… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, January 19, 2023 Today’s newsletter is by Jared Blikre, a reporter focused on the markets on Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @SPYJared. Read this and more market news on the go with the Yahoo Finance App. Despite Wednesday’s losses in the major U.S. indexes, stocks are flying out of the gate in 2023. The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) and… Source link

The Google Stadia controller is still going to be useable now that the cloud gaming service is dead. Getty Images Google screwed up. It made so many mistakes with Stadia that stopped the platform from ever reaching its full potential. Now, like so many other Google projects, Stadia is dead. That’s a real shame, because it was a great cloud gaming service that was ahead of its time. I mean that in the most literal way, because Google rushed Stadia to market before it was truly ready for… Source link

So, one of the cool tricks that Android can do is deliver updates and improvements without major version updates. This is possible though the way Google Play Services started to work around the release of Android 10 and up. The latest version of the Play Services update — that for January — is currently rolling out. Thanks to a detailed report from 9to5Google, we’ve gotten an overview of the most notable features, besides the usual bug fixes and improvements to… Source link