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A 3D-printed Google logo is seen in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo BRUSSELS, July 12 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google will seek to overturn a record 4.34-billion-euro ($5.15 billion) EU antitrust fine at a five-day hearing in September at Europe’s second-highest court, people familiar with the matter said. The European Commission in its 2018 decision said Google had used its popular Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals,… Source link

FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Google logo is seen in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet unit Google will seek to overturn a record 4.34-billion-euro ($5.15 billion) EU antitrust fine at a five-day hearing in September at Europe’s second-highest court, people familiar with the matter said. The European Commission in its 2018 decision said Google had used its popular Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals, an… Source link

As boss of both Google and its parent company Alphabet, he is the ultimate leader of companies or products as varied as Waze, FitBit and DeepMind, the artificial intelligence pioneers. At Google alone he oversees Gmail, Google Chrome, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Docs, Google Photos, the Android operating system and many other products. Source link

With ransomware attacks on the rise—and compromised passwords to blame for some of the hackings—there’s no better time to review your personal security practices. It all starts with how you create and store passwords. You may have read a thing or two about password managers, perhaps in my previous column on the subject. This software can create strong randomized passwords, then remember them for you, and they can auto-fill credentials, simplifying… Source link

At 26, Andrea Fletcher has already worked for Google , Apple and Roblox. She says her career in software engineering really began with a childhood love of logic puzzles that involve math and patterns. Then, as a senior in high school, thanks to a gentle nudge from her dad, she opted to take a computer-science elective over art. Ms. Fletcher loved coding and problem solving. Today, as a full-stack software engineer at Roblox, the online platform where 43 million people… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7… Source link

FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – Attorney General Daniel Cameron has joined a coalition of 37 states and the District of Columbia to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google.  The suit claims Google unfairly restricted competition with the Google Play Store, harming consumers by limiting choice and driving up app prices. This antitrust lawsuit is the newest legal action against the tech giant,… Source link

Enlarge / The now-defunct news aggregator was an excellent source of boldface, italics, underline, and wildly mismatched typefaces. In August of 2019, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp announced that it was developing Knwez, its own “conservative friendly” alternative to Google News. Knewz went live without much fanfare in January of 2020, and officially died today, less than eighteen months later. What was Knewz? Knewz described itself as “an… Source link

Apple will be the next major target in the United States’ latest crack down on Big Tech, IAC CEO Joey Levin predicted on CNBC on Friday. Levin said on “Squawk Box” that he believes “Apple’s next, and I think Apple is, in many senses, worse” than Google, which was sued this week by a group of state attorneys general. The AGs alleged that the Alphabet unit abused its power over app developers through its Play Store on Android. Apple has “forced companies into the system,” said Levin, whose… Source link

Yandex NV, the Dutch-domiciled Russian multinational internet company, often dubbed as the Google of Russia, had launched an e-scooter rental service in Moscow on Wednesday in a bid to draw fresh liquids amid a ballooning demand-surge across the city, an auspicious eavesdropping on to a new source of revenues. In point of fact, latest Yandex NV move to roll out an e-scooter rental service into Moscow, the Russ capital housing more than 12.5 million people, came forth at a… Source link