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The streaming industry’s password-sharing crackdown has claimed its next victim — Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) Max streaming service. The platform formerly known as HBO Max will begin to restrict the practice later this year, with a wider rollout expected in 2025, Yahoo Finance confirmed. The news, first reported by Bloomberg, comes as media companies face pressure from shareholders to scale their streaming services and make them profitable. Streamers can boost their subscribers by… Source link

Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine, Edge web browser and Advertising services are set to be exempt from strict new European Union antitrust rules reining in Big Tech platforms because watchdogs tentatively concluded they’re not dominant enough to be hit by the regulation. European Commission officials are leaning toward the reprieve for the US software giant as part of a five-month market investigation ending in February, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Growing  WIRED Source link