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By Jonathan Barrett, Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has vowed to withdraw its main search engine from Australia, while Facebook Inc says it will block news sharing if the government proceeds with a law to make them pay domestic media outlets for content they feature. FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Google logo is placed on broken glass in front of displayed Australian flag in this illustration taken, January 22, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration The dispute is being closely… Source link

As streaming services hoard content in competition for eyeballs, NBCUniversal’s Peacock is coming off the top rope. Peacock will become the exclusive home to WWE Network’s content starting March 18, thanks to a multi-year deal announced Monday. Following the news, WWE announced it expects 2021 adjusted operating income of $270 million to $305 million thanks in part to a Peacock deal reports have tabbed at over $1 billion across five years. WWE is set to report full-year 2020 results on… Source link

Anthony Levandowski stood at the center of the race between Google and Uber to build self-driving cars. He was there at the beginning of Google’s program in 2009. By the time it became Waymo in 2016, he’d left, founded a self-driving truck company called Otto, and sold that (in 2016) to Uber for $600 million. He was eventually indicted on dozens of federal charges, accused of stealing 14,000 files containing Google’s self-driving trade secrets. In August, Levandowski was sentenced to 18… Source link

The Guardian Belichick’s exit plan and a JJ Watt trade: NFL subplots to watch in 2021 Will Aaron Rodgers depart Green Bay after an MVP-caliber season? Will Bill Belichick leave New England before it turns ugly? There’s no shortage of meaty NFL plotlines in 2021The NFL’s general attitude towards 2020 can be summed up succinctly: What pandemic?Whereas other leagues ground to a halt, considered voiding their seasons, entered into complex bubbles or faced existential crises, the NFL thundered… Source link

The decision to start the fifth pick of the draft probably got more scrutiny than it deserved. When Brian Flores announced earlier this season that the Miami Dolphins were switching quarterbacks from Ryan Fitzpatrick to Tua Tagovailoa, it was far from an easily accepted decision. People wondered how the Dolphins could bench Fitzpatrick, especially with the Dolphins on a two-game winning streak and holding a 3-3 record. It has turned out pretty well. The Dolphins have gone 5-2 in Tagovailoa’s… Source link

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe A scorched-Earth campaign Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB) have one of the fiercest business rivalries in the world, and the tech giants just launched dual scorched earth campaigns that could hurt both companies’ businesses. The tech titans have been at each other’s… Source link

President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to take a page out of the Trump playbook and pick a recently retired general as his nominee for defense secretary has put him at odds with congressional Democrats. Biden confirmed Tuesday in an article in the Atlantic that he has selected retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin as the man he wants to run the Pentagon. “I chose Lloyd Austin as my nominee for secretary of defense because I know how he reacts under pressure, and I know that he will do whatever it… Source link

A US court has ordered Google to hand over the personal emails of the son of a Russian oligarch as part of a bitter £453m divorce case. Judge Virginia DeMarchi in California told the US tech group to surrender Temur Akhmedov’s emails for use as evidence in a lawsuit brought by his mother, Tatiana Akhmedova, the wife of an ally of President Vladimir Putin. Ms Akhmedova has gone to court in the US and the UK in an attempt to force her ex-husband, Farkhad Akhmedov, to pay… Source link

The Baltimore Ravens beat the Indianapolis Colts, 24-10, on Nov. 8. That win brought their record to 6-2, with five victories coming by 14 or more points. The only losses were to the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers, the two best teams in the NFL. The thought of them missing the playoffs wasn’t on anyone’s mind. The NFL moves fast. In two weeks, the Ravens have taken on two losses — they lost two games the entire 2019 regular season — and suddenly Baltimore is far from a… Source link

The government hasn’t yet specified what remedies it would seek to correct Google’s conduct, should it win a monopoly judgment, though the U.S. is expected to seek a court order preventing Google from continuing to form exclusionary agreements with device manufacturers. The lawsuit hints that the U.S. would seek a structural fix, which could amount to a breakup of Google or a forced divestiture of assets. That might be overkill, according to antitrust lawyers. “A much more effective remedy… Source link