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The Amazon logo displayed on a smartphone and a PC screen. Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket via Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s competition regulator on Friday launched a formal probe into Amazon and Google over concerns they haven’t done enough to tackle fake reviews. “We are investigating concerns that Amazon and Google have not been doing enough to prevent or remove fake reviews to protect customers and honest businesses,” Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA, said in a statement. “It’s… Source link

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has announced it will take an active role in developing Google’s plans to prevent websites tracking Chrome users. Under the proposals, the CMA would accept legally binding commitments from Google not to use its proposed replacements for tracking cookies, a set of technologies the search engine calls its Privacy Sandbox, in a way that would harm competition. It is thought to be the first time a competition regulator has been involved at such an early… Source link

Well this is big. The UK’s competition regulator looks set to get an emergency brake that will allow it to stop Google ending support for third party cookies, a technology that’s currently used for targeting online ads, if it believes competition would be harmed by the depreciation going ahead. The development follows an investigation opened by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) into Google’s self-styled ‘Privacy Sandbox’ earlier this year. The regulator will have the… Source link

The logo of Google Chrome shown on a smartphone. Thomas Trutschel | Photothek via Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s competition regulator will have a say in Google’s plan to remove third-party browser cookies that track people online. The Competition and Markets Authority said Friday that it had secured commitments from Google to address concerns about the proposal. The CMA is worried that the plans will harm newspapers and other businesses that rely on personalized ads. Web cookies are small… Source link

Britain’s competition regulator said on Friday it had secured commitments from Google (GOOGL.O) about the tech giant’s proposal to remove third-party cookies from its Chrome browser. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the commitments were a result of action it launched against the U.S. company in January following concerns that its proposals could restrict competition in digital advertising. read more Third-party cookies are used by digital advertisers to personalise and target… Source link

The Google logo is seen on on the company’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, February 27, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo Germany’s competition authority launched a probe against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google news showcase, a platform which makes news available on the tech giant’s news website, it said on Friday. Cooperation with Google could be attractive for publishers and other news providers and offer consumers better information services, it said. “However, it… Source link

The New York Times Seminary Built on Slavery and Jim Crow Labor Has Begun Paying Reparations One night in 1858, Carter Dowling, an enslaved Black man forced to work without pay at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Northern Virginia, made the brave decision to escape. He made it to Philadelphia, where he met famed abolitionist William Still. He then continued north to Canada and, after the Civil War, returned to Washington, D.C., where he was able to open a bank account for his children. He… Source link

Germany’s national competition regulator, the Bundeskartellamt, has continued its investigative charge against big tech — announcing that it’s opened two proceedings into Google. The move follows earlier proceedings targeting Amazon and Facebook — both of which are also looking to determine whether their businesses are of “paramount significance for competition across markets”, as German competition law puts it. (The regulator is also probing Facebook’s tying of Oculus to… Source link

HARVARD, Mass. — Caroline Charland, a 12-year-old girl from Harvard, is a finalist for a national Google competition. The seventh-grader illustrated a book on how kids can handle COVID-19 stress. Caroline has now qualified for the national “Doodle for Google” contest. If she wins, she receives a college scholarship and her school receives a $50,000 technology package from Google. It’s a public vote. Voting ends Friday at midnight. Download the free Boston 25 News app for up-to-the-minute… Source link

Greenville student Jakkula Chaitanya has been chosen as the Doodle for Google Competition winner for the state of Mississippi. Being chosen as the state-wide Doodle for Google winner, Chaitanya is now eligible to become the national winner of the competition. The Doodle for Google Competition is designed to encourage eligible U.S. school students and their parents/guardians on their behalf to use their creativity to create their own interpretation of the… Source link