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State attorneys general are planning another lawsuit against Google for Play Store for Androids

Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. P, this one focused on the search and advertising giant’s Play Store for Android phones, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Ticker Security Last Change Change % GOOGL ALPHABET INC. 1,727.62 -3.30 -0.19% The lawsuit is expected to be filed in February or March, the sources said, and it would follow complaints about Google’s management of its Play Store even though the company was… Source link

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Biden selects Judge Merrick Garland for attorney general

By Jarrett Renshaw and Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) -President-elect Joe Biden will nominate federal appeals judge Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general, a Biden transition official said on Wednesday, a choice most Americans know as the Supreme Court nominee of President Barack Obama memorably blocked by Republicans. Garland, 68, serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, one of 13 federal appeals courts. Obama, a Democrat, nominated him to… Source link

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Attorney General Ken Paxton seeks $43M for Google lawsuit

The mass exodus of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s top staff over accusations of bribery against their former boss has left Paxton seeking $43 million in public funds to replace some of them with outside lawyers to lead a high-profile antitrust lawsuit against Google. Former Paxton aides told The Associated Press that before they reported him to the FBI in September and began resigning, the lawsuit against the search engine giant was set to be handled internally by what is one of the… Source link

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Texas attorney general promises new antitrust lawsuit against Google

Sundar Pichai of Google testifies before the House Judiciary Committee as seen via YouTube on a laptop in Washington, DC on July 29, 2020. Carolyn Van Houten | The Washington Post | Getty Images Google is set to face a new antitrust lawsuit from a group of state attorneys general led by Texas, this time targeting its advertising technology services. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a video announcing the lawsuit that Google has used its alleged monopoly power to control pricing and… Source link

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Yandex Announces Results of 2020 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

MOSCOW and AMSTERDAM, Oct. 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that all resolutions proposed at Yandex’s 2020 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (“AGM”), held on Thursday, October 29, 2020, have been approved. Yandex also announced two reappointments to its Board of Directors. Arkady Volozh was re-appointed as executive member of the Board of… Source link

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Yandex Announces Results of 2020 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders Nasdaq:YNDX

MOSCOW and AMSTERDAM, Oct. 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that all resolutions proposed at Yandex’s 2020 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (“AGM”), held on Thursday, October 29, 2020, have been approved. Yandex also announced two reappointments to its Board of Directors. Arkady Volozh was re-appointed as executive member of the Board… Source link

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