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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

Netflix (NFLX) freeloaders, beware! The company is ramping up its password sharing crackdown. Following fourth quarter earnings results on Thursday that saw subscriber numbers leap past expectations, the company warned in its quarterly letter to shareholders it will be intensifying its push to combat password sharing. “Later in Q1, we expect to start rolling out paid sharing more broadly. Today’s widespread account sharing (100M+ households) undermines our long term ability to invest in and… Source link

Netflix (NFLX) freeloaders, beware! The company is ramping up its password sharing crackdown. Following fourth quarter earnings results on Thursday that saw subscriber numbers leap past expectations, the company warned in its quarterly letter to shareholders it will be intensifying its push to combat password sharing. “Later in Q1, we expect to start rolling out paid sharing more broadly. Today’s widespread account sharing (100M+ households) undermines our long term ability to invest in and… Source link

Google faces growing antitrust scrutiny world over Two India orders hit Google in India in recent days Google concerned Android India order could hit business-sources Company sees directives sweeping in nature-sources NEW DELHI, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Google is planning a legal challenge to block a ruling by India’s antitrust watchdog to change its approach to its Android operating system, concerned that it will restrict how it promotes the platform, sources with direct knowledge of the situation… Source link

Business travel has not recovered as quickly as leisure travel. getty Google has told its senior managers to limit employee travel only to “business critical” trips, according to a leaked internal email seen by The Information. No more team off-sites or social functions, and no more in-person meetings when a virtual option is available. Moving forward, Google’s executives were told, there will be a “high bar” for what is now deemed critical. Last month, Microsoft asked employees to cut… Source link

Netflix (NFLX) co-founder Marc Randolph is weighing in on the platform’s crackdown on password sharing. Randolph, who served as the company’s first CEO from its inception in 1997 to 2003, told Yahoo Finance in a new interview that the streamer must “carefully” implement its strategy. “I don’t think anybody wants to make it difficult for people who have legitimate uses to share their password, share their password or use their password in multiple locations,” Randolph explained. “At the same… Source link

(Bloomberg) — US-listed China stocks surged Monday to the highest since early April on increased speculation that a year-long government crackdown on the technology industry is easing. Most Read from Bloomberg While the S&P 500 Index struggled to mount much of an advance, the Nasdaq Golden Dragon Index closed 5.4% higher after surging as much as 8.3%, as Chinese regulators were said to be close to wrapping up their investigation of Didi Global Inc. The company’s American depositary receipts… Source link

Google is changing its Play Store policy to clamp down on a workaround that call recording apps were using, potentially closing the final loophole that allowed these apps to exist (via NLL-Apps on Reddit). On May 11th, a rule clarifying that “the Accessibility API is not designed and cannot be requested for remote call audio recording” will go into effect, making it so that apps won’t be able to record audio from a call. As XDA points out, Google has been playing whack-a-mole with… Source link