Tag Archives: Fight

[unable to retrieve full-text content]EU: Russia’s Yandex takes fight against Google to the EC  PYMNTS.com Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Disney CEO Bob Iger, Nelson Peltz enter final days of proxy fight — here’s what to know  Yahoo Finance Source link

The housing market is showing signs of a recovery as the spring home-buying season gets underway. Mortgage rates fell for the second week in a row, declining to the lowest level in more than a month. The average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.74% from 6.88% the week prior, per Freddie Mac. And as mortgage rates decline, supply is starting to rebound. New listings hit a 17-month high in February, while the total number of homes for sale rose to the highest level in a… Source link

Ilia Topuria will meet Alexander Volkanovski in the main event at UFC 298 on Saturday. (Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC) It doesn’t take much to get Ilia Topuria to start telling you what he really thinks. All you have to do is ask and then wait. And honestly? You won’t have to wait long. I found this out recently when I questioned him about his claims that, after he beats UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski (26-3) at UFC 298 in Anaheim, California, this Saturday, he won’t look to… Source link

A federal judge is dismissing Disney’s (DIS) free speech lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis — a big win for the politician amid his ongoing political feud with the media giant. In a court filing obtained by Yahoo Finance, US District Judge Allen Winsor, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President Donald Trump in 2019, granted a motion to dismiss the First Amendment case. The judge determined that Disney’s position “fails on the merits” and ultimately “lacked… Source link

A patent dispute launched four years ago by a little-known local firm went to trial in Boston this week. And it could turn into a massive headache for internet search giant Google. The patent suit, originally filed by Cambridge-based Singular Computing in late 2019, claims that Google has violated a number of Singular’s patents related to a new kind of microprocessor that’s better than traditional microchips at running artificial intelligence systems. Singular is seeking $1.67 billion in… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Play Protect adds real-time scanning to fight Android malware  BleepingComputer Source link

WASHINGTON – One of the biggest cases the Supreme Court will wrestle with this year deals with the scope of a controversial law that shields Big Tech companies like Google and Twitter from legal liability for most of the content users post on their sites.  Despite the significance of the issue – and a roiling debate over content moderation on social media – most of the justices will hear arguments in Gonzalez v. Google next month without ever having revealed their thoughts on the… Source link

Google’s Advanced Technology Review Council, a panel of executives that includes Jeff Dean, the company’s senior vice president of research and artificial intelligence, and Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs and chief legal officer, met less than two weeks after ChatGPT debuted to discuss their company’s initiatives, according to the slide presentation. They reviewed plans for products that were expected to debut at Google’s company conference in May, including Image… Source link

Expect financial market and economic chaos to ensue if U.S. lawmakers don’t find a resolution on the debt ceiling this time around. “If there was even a temporary default on the U.S. debt, it would really be a financial catastrophe,” NYU professor and economist Nouriel Roubini told Yahoo Finance Live at the World Economic Forum (video above). “So if you default on the debt, domestic and foreign investors in the private sector are not going to buy your bonds, and you’ll have a spike in… Source link