WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The Justice Department’s top antitrust official recently won approval from the department to oversee investigations involving Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), a person briefed on the matter told Reuters. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the decision to allow Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust, to oversee matters involving the search engine and advertising company. The Justice Department and Google declined to comment… Source link
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department’s top antitrust official recently won approval from the department to oversee investigations involving Google parent Alphabet Inc, a person briefed on the matter told Reuters. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the decision to allow Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust, to oversee matters involving the search engine and advertising company. The Justice Department and Google declined to comment… Source link
Read More »Google Warns Pending Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the Internet
Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hold two days of hearings on a pair of cases that directly challenge the scope of Section 230, a provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act that establishes the ground rules for regulating online speech. The cases will represent the first Supreme Court consideration of Section 230, and could lay the groundwork for a dramatic change in the way the internet is governed. Source link
Read More »Your Google Stadia controller won’t be a paperweight after the service shuts down
Google is giving Stadia users some consolation prizes before the game streaming service shuts down on January 18th. To start, it’s planning to release a tool that will enable Bluetooth support on the Stadia controller. You’ll have to wait until next week to download it, but this should make the device useful for just about any title that has gamepad support, so long as the platform recognizes the hardware in the first place. The company has also released a Snake clone, Worm Game, as a final… Source link
Read More »Google to SCOTUS: Liability for promoting terrorist videos will ruin the Internet
For years, YouTube has been accused of enabling terrorist recruitment. This allegedly happens when a user clicks on a terrorist video hosted on the platform, then spirals down a rabbit hole of extremist content automatically queued “up next” through YouTube’s recommendation engine. In 2016, the family of Nohemi Gonzalez—who was killed in a 2015 Paris terrorist attack after extremists allegedly relied… Source link
Read More »Internal Google Document Compares Company to Slime Mold As It Grows
An internal Google document laid out a theory for why the company has become so slow. A former employee who created the presentation compared Google to slime mold. The document posited that bottom-up cultures like Google’s could create “coordination headwinds.” As Google has swelled in size to over 186,000 people, many of its employees and even its CEO have complained… Source link
Read More »US Army rolls out Google collaboration suite to 180,000-plus personnel
McLEAN, Va. — The U.S. Army has provided Google Workspace, the search-and-software giant’s collaboration suite, to more than 180,000 personnel in the wake of email licensing shortfalls and other information-technology dilemmas. The tally, only expected to grow, comes about six months after the service started quietly testing the constellation of digital tools with a select group and three months after it began publicly rolling it out to troops. Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo on Jan. 12… Source link
Read More »Google, Bain & Company make Glassdoor Best Places to Work since 2009
For the last 15 years, Glassdoor has recognized the best places to work in the U.S. and four other countries with its annual Employees’ Choice Awards. And since the awards began in 2009, only two companies have made the cut every year: Bain & Company and Google. This year, Bain & Company ranked third on the Best Places to Work list, behind Gainsight and Box. The management consulting firm also ranked 3rd in 2022 after snagging the no. 1 spot in 2021. Google ranked eighth on this year’s list,… Source link
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Apple and Google Facing Real Competiive Pressure in 2023
This year, Apple and Google will both face their first real tests in a very long time. Apple could finally open its walled garden, potentially disrupting the App Store juggernaut. The rise of ChatGPT threatens Google’s stranglehold over search — and its ad business. … Source link
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