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The Google app logo is seen on a smartphone in this picture illustration taken September 15, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Summary Law firms Related documents Plaintiffs’ lawyers argue Google must disclose more documents Google’s attorneys say additional records ‘irrelevant’ to case The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and… Source link

Photo illustration by Nico Heins Welcome to RB’s weekly roundup of the latest in restaurant technology. To get this and other tech news sent right to your inbox every Wednesday, click here. I have written frequently about Google ordering over the past year or so. I thought it would be one of the biggest trends of 2021, and at the end of the year I was a bit surprised that I wasn’t hearing more about it.  The feature added in 2018 allows customers to order from a restaurant within… Source link

The new year has been upon us for less than a month, but the Great Crypto Crash of 2022 has already caused a lot of investors pain. The risk aversion dogging Wall Street has infected cryptocurrencies, resulting in a dramatic sell-off in digital coins that yanked Bitcoin (BTC-USD) below $34,000. While the token recouped some of those losses, most analysts think there’s more downside left to probe, especially with crypto’s growing correlation with other risk-on assets. Like stocks, Bitcoin’s… Source link

By Matthew Perlman (January 21, 2022, 5:08 PM EST) — Amid debate among U.S. lawmakers over legislation that would bar large technology platforms from favoring their own products and services, Russia’s antitrust watchdog has entered a settlement with internet giant Yandex requiring the company to end similar practices. The Federal Antimonopoly Service said in a statement issued on Wednesday in Russian that Yandex has agreed to a settlement ending the agency’s case against it, alleging… Source link

Google asked a federal court on Friday to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit led by the State of Texas, the first time it has sought to have one of the government competition cases against it thrown out in the United States. In a filing, Google said the state had failed to show that it engaged in anticompetitive behavior and hadn’t proved that an agreement between Facebook and Google, a core part of the case, violated the law. “We’re confident that this case is wrong on the facts and the law,… Source link

With the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) teetering on the brink of correction territory, a painful sector rotation continues to flummox investors this year in expectation of the Federal Reserve taking its foot off the gas. Amid the overall market defensiveness, one analyst is suggesting that investor pessimism may be overblown. Callie Cox, investment analyst at eToro, recently appeared on Yahoo Finance Live to break down the current macro environment, as markets recently went from pricing in zero… Source link

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, told Yahoo Finance that COVID-19 could become endemic in 2022 but only if certain parameters are met. If you get “a combination of enough people vaccinated and boosted together with people who are infected and recover and have a degree of immunity — hopefully they’ll wind up getting vaccinated too — and you have a virus, a variant, that has a lesser… Source link

Google’s chief executive approved an agreement with Facebook at the heart of an antitrust lawsuit that 16 states and Puerto Rico have lodged against the search giant, according to a portion of the complaint revealed on Friday. The lawsuit, led by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, argues that Google has obtained and abused a monopoly over the network of technology used to deliver ads online. When publishers started using an alternative system for selling their ad space, Google worked to… Source link

MOSCOW, January 12. /TASS/. Yandex entered into antitrust proceedings against Apple over its prohibition against application developers from informing customers about the possibility of paying for purchases outside the AppStore, the company told TASS. “We decided to participate in the process because the decision on this case can have a big impact on both users and developers. We believe that users should be able to learn about different payment methods and make in-app purchases in any way… Source link

In 2019, a group of workers who had recently been fired from Google (GOOGL GOOGLE) filed unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB, claiming they had been fired for speaking out about the company’s practices, such as signing controversial government contracts, and for engaging in protected labor organizing. Google has maintained that the employees were let go for repeated violations of its policies. But in 2020, the NLRB filed a complaint alleging Google had violated labor laws with two of… Source link