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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex alleges AMD’s Windows drivers unfairly favor Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge  Neowin Source link

It said that Google was entering into forced agreements with players in the space to ensure that its bouquet of apps – such as Google Chrome, YouTube, Google Maps and others – were used. This, the CCI said, was stifling competition and gave Google continuous access to consumer data and lucrative advertising opportunities. Source link

India antitrust rulings latest setback for Google in key market Google wants Indian antitrust decisions to be quashed Indian watchdog copied parts of EU order, Google alleges Google says its conduct is not anti-competitive – filing NEW DELHI, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Google has told a tribunal in India that the country’s antitrust investigators copied parts of a European ruling against the U.S. firm for abusing the market dominance of its Android operating system, arguing the decision be quashed, legal… Source link

Indian visitors talk on their mobile phones outside the Google stall at the India Mobile Congress in New Delhi on Sept. 27, 2017. Prakash Singh | AFP | Getty Images Google has told a tribunal in India that the country’s antitrust investigators copied parts of a European ruling against the U.S. firm for abusing the market dominance of its Android operating system, arguing the decision be quashed, legal papers show. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in October fined Alphabet Inc’s Google… Source link

OAKLAND, Calif., Nov 17 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has struck deals with at least 24 big app developers to stop them from competing with its Play Store, including an agreement to pay Activision Blizzard Inc (ATVI.O) about $360 million over three years, according to a court filing on Thursday. Google also agreed in 2020 to pay Tencent Holdings Ltd’s <0700.HK> Riot Games unit, which makes “League of Legends,” $30 million over one year in a similar deal, the filing stated. The… Source link

Ne-Yo’s wife has filed for divorce, claiming he recently fathered a child with another woman. Days after publicly accusing the singer of cheating, Crystal Smith, who married Ne-Yo (real name: Shaffer Chimere Smith) in 2016, filed divorce papers in Atlanta this week, according to multiple news outlets. In her divorce filing, Ne-Yo’s wife Crystal Smith accuses him of recently fathering a child with another woman. (Photo: Prince Williams/ Getty Images) Smith, who shares three children with the… Source link

A civil lawsuit alleges that a former Yahoo employee stole valuable intellectual property when he downloaded approximately 570,000 pages of proprietary source code, ad placement algorithms, internal strategy documents and more upon securing a job offer from The Trade Desk, a direct competitor of Yahoo’s advertising technology arm. A civil suit indicates that Yahoo Ad Tech, together with Oath Holdings – a financial subsidiary of Yahoo Inc – are suing Qian Sang, who previously served as… Source link

A civil lawsuit alleges that a former Yahoo employee stole valuable intellectual property when he downloaded approximately 570,000 pages of proprietary source code, ad placement algorithms, internal strategy documents and more upon securing a job offer from The Trade Desk, a direct competitor of Yahoo’s advertising technology arm. A civil suit indicates that Yahoo Ad Tech, together with Oath Holdings – a financial subsidiary of Yahoo Inc – are suing Qian Sang, who previously served as… Source link

Washington, D.C., and two states filed new lawsuits against Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -2.15% Google, accusing it of deceiving consumers by recording their location even after users tried to turn off the company’s tracking. Google falsely told customers that if they opted out of collection of their “Location History” or other settings, Google wouldn’t store the places they went, according to a lawsuit… Source link

Google misled publishers and advertisers for years about the pricing and processes of its ad auctions, creating secret programs that deflated sales for some companies while increasing prices for buyers, according to newly unredacted allegations and details in a lawsuit by state attorneys general. Meanwhile, Google pocketed the difference between what it told publishers and advertisers that an ad cost and used the pool of money to manipulate future auctions to expand its… Source link