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Google Settles Smaller Lawsuits as It Prepares for More Antitrust Fights

Google Settles Smaller Lawsuits as It Prepares for More Antitrust Fights

In December, Google spent $700 million to resolve states’ claims that its Play Store had strong-armed app makers into high fees and tough terms. About six weeks after that, Google paid $350 million to end a lawsuit accusing it of improperly sharing users’ private information. On Monday morning, a Massachusetts company called Singular Computing said it had resolved its lawsuit with Google, involving claims that the tech giant had stolen its chip designs. Singular said in a news release… Source link

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Indian startups ask antitrust body to order Google to restore apps after ‘brazen’ move

Indian startups ask antitrust body to order Google to restore apps after ‘brazen’ move

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A group representing Indian startups has asked the country’s antitrust watchdog to order Alphabet Inc’s Google to reinstate apps it removed for policy violations, a letter seen by Reuters shows, escalating a showdown with the U.S. giant in a key market. Google on Friday removed more than 100 Indian apps, including popular ones by Matrimony.com, for not complying with its policy of paying a service fee when in-app payment options other than Google’s are… Source link

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Google to face US antitrust trial over digital ads in September

Google to face US antitrust trial over digital ads in September

By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Monday set a Sept. 9, 2024, date for the start of a jury trial in a lawsuit the U.S. Justice Department and a coalition of states filed last year against Google that accused the company of abusing its dominance of digital advertising technology. The lawsuit, filed in January 2023, accuses Google of monopolizing the market for digital advertising and undermining competition. The government has said Google should be forced to sell… Source link

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FTC nominee Melissa Holyoak traded chummy emails with Google-backed firm that ‘advocates abolishing antitrust rules’

FTC nominee Melissa Holyoak traded chummy emails with Google-backed firm that ‘advocates abolishing antitrust rules’

Business exclusive By Thomas Barrabi Published Jan. 8, 2024, 4:55 p.m. ET Emails obtained by The Post reveal Federal Trade Commission nominee Melissa Holyoak’s chummy rapport with ex-colleagues at a Google-funded think tank – including one who wrote of the FTC that “burning it to the ground is too good for it.” Holyoak, the Republican solicitor general of Utah, previously spent five years as an attorney for the Competitive… Source link

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