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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Eric Risberg/AP Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, takes part in a discussion at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. Washington CNN — … Source link
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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
Read More »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
Read More »Google to pay $700M in antitrust settlement over Play Store dispute – Fox Business
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Read More »5 things we learned from the Epic-Google antitrust case this week – TechCrunch
[unable to retrieve full-text content] 5 things we learned from the Epic-Google antitrust case this week TechCrunch Google offered Epic $147 million to launch Fortnite on the Play Store The Verge Google CEO Sundar Pichai to be grilled in antitrust trial with ‘Fortnite’ maker New York Post Source link
Read More »Google Antitrust Trial Exposes Deepening Rift With Microsoft – The Wall Street Journal
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Read More »Alphabet, Match Settle Google Play Antitrust Court Battle – Yahoo Finance
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Read More »The Google Antitrust Case’s Toxic Mix of Progressivism and Protectionism – National Review
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Read More »Google antitrust case spurs question: Why don't we change default settings? – Marketplace
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google antitrust case spurs question: Why don’t we change default settings? Marketplace Source link
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