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CARY – Epic Games is seeking to broaden its lawsuit against Google over antitrust issues involving Google’s Android app store, saying the internet giant is paying developers to not create competing apps. Google denies the claim. “Epic and Match are adding more inaccurate claims to their failing lawsuits and we’re looking forward to setting the record straight in court,” a company spokesperson told Engadget, which reported a new filing that Epic made late Friday in federal… Source link

The College Football Playoff is finally going to expand. After months of inaction, the playoff committee said Friday that it is set to expand the four-team playoff to 12 teams in 2026. According to multiple reports, it’s not out of the realm of possibility the playoff could expand to 12 teams in either 2024 or 2025. The College Football Playoff has been four teams since it was introduced ahead of the 2014 season. If it doesn’t expand before 2026 and remains at four for the next four seasons,… Source link

New York CNN Business  —  Hundreds of workers at Google-parent Alphabet are calling on the company to take steps to expand abortion protections for users and contractors in a post-Roe world, according to a statement Thursday from a union representing the workers. In the petition, which was signed by more than 650 workers at the company and addressed to several executives including Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai,… Source link

Comment on this story Comment Happy Thursday! As always, send news tips and predictions for who won’t survive the “House of the Dragon” premiere to cristiano.lima@washpost.com. Below: The FTC threatens to sue an adtech firm, and Australia’s top court sides with Google in a defamation case. First: Workers demand Google expand abortion protections post-Roe Google staffers are calling on the tech giant to take greater steps to protect workers’ reproductive health, including by expanding… Source link

Google receives tens of thousands of requests to remove personal information, such as addresses and social security numbers from webpages found on their search results every year. But only about 13% of requests get approved. Now, google is expanding its removal policy through an online form. To find the form search “request to remove personal information on google.” The form should be the first search result. Then, fill out the form including the information you want to remove and the URL of… Source link

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) confer before addressing reporters following the weekly senate party caucus luncheons at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. July 9, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst In a surprising move to even Capitol Hill insiders, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia struck a deal on a reconciliation bill, which among other things includes $369 billion on energy and climate… Source link

Yahoo is set to expand its Israel-based R&D centers under new leadership that will focus on growing its local sales operations, the company said on Monday. Yahoo operates R&D centers in Tel Aviv and Haifa with about 150 programmers, engineers, and researchers who work on developing the brand. The Tel Aviv site focuses on developments in advertising technologies, video tech, and data products, while the Haifa team serves as a research center. To drive the expansion, Yahoo appointed… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics or other places that could trigger legal problems now that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door for states to ban the termination of pregnancies. The company behind the internet’s dominant internet search engine and the Android software that powers most of the world’s smartphones outlined the new privacy protections in a Friday blog post. Besides automatically deleting… Source link

As Netflix (NFLX) grapples with company-wide layoffs and slowing subscriber growth, there’s been increased talk when it comes to the streamer’s complicated relationship with the box office — and what it could look like moving forward. National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) CEO and president John Fithian told Yahoo Finance that theaters would happily welcome more streaming content on the big screen, despite exhibitors’ strained history with the streaming boom at large. “The door is… Source link

The closure of Western social media networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter by Russia in retaliation for Western sanctions, following the invasion of Ukraine, creates new business opportunities for Russian media and communications companies like Yandex. Russia’s biggest email account provider VK is reportedly considering reviving the ICQ chat program, developed in Israel in the 1990s and eventually finding Russian owners in 2010, in order to provide social network… Source link