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The government hasn’t yet specified what remedies it would seek to correct Google’s conduct, should it win a monopoly judgment, though the U.S. is expected to seek a court order preventing Google from continuing to form exclusionary agreements with device manufacturers. The lawsuit hints that the U.S. would seek a structural fix, which could amount to a breakup of Google or a forced divestiture of assets. That might be overkill, according to antitrust lawyers. “A much more effective remedy… Source link

Halloween is a spooky time of year and some people might get a fright just opening an app on their smartphone. We’re all aware that the big tech companies track our lives online and in real life, but it’s pretty scary when you see what data and information these companies keep all in one place. One example is your Google searches. Everything you’ve ever entered… Source link

How a supposed Apple search engine could look like E. Dans The Financial Times says Apple has likely been working for some time on its own search engine in a bid to steal quota from Google, which in many countries has market shares of over 90%, giving it an alternative as its arrangements with the Mountain View company to make its search engine the default option on Apple devices comes under antitrust scrutiny, and backed by the idea of a search option that… Source link

OHIO — Early Sunday, President Donald Trump tweeted, saying “Can I change my vote?” was trending on Google — which led to millions of others to question whether they could in their state.  Strongly Trending (Google) since immediately after the second debate is CAN I CHANGE MY VOTE? This refers changing it to me. The answer in most states is YES. Go do it. Most important Election of your life! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2020 Google Trends shows more people did… Source link

(Pocket-lint) – Google has fleshed out its Google One service with a new perk that is designed to protect your online privacy while on the go.  From 29 October 2020, if you’re a Google One subscriber, you can get access to a new virtual private network (VPN) feature inside the Google One app. You… Source link

Federal antitrust charges against Alphabet Inc.’s Google; advertiser and user boycotts of Facebook Inc.; increasing scrutiny of Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. by the news media and government regulators — all in the middle of a pandemic. Yet, when Big Tech reported earnings en masse Thursday, most of the effects felt by those companies appeared to be positive: Amazon AMZN, +1.52%, Apple AAPL, +3.70%, Facebook FB,

There are any number of VPN services you can use to help protect your privacy and security with an encrypted internet connection, and now Google has its own. Well, technically, it already did, but only for Google Fi cellular subscribers on Android smartphones. Now, the company’s announcing it’ll throw in an Android-based VPN free of charge to any 2TB Google One cloud storage subscriber in the US — and will expand to iOS, Windows and Mac and other countries “in the coming… Source link

(Credit: Google) In a bit of irony, Google is launching a VPN service to protect users’ privacy.  The VPN will be a free perk to the $9.99-a-month 2TB plan on Google One, the company’s cloud storage service. Soon, the Google One app for Android will display a new function that can activate a VPN over the user’s smartphone.  The company is offering the VPN as a safeguard to prevent hackers from snooping on users’ unencrypted web traffic if their phone is ever connected to a public… Source link

Google parent company Alphabet’s third quarter revenue increased 14 percent from the year before, led by a rebound in advertising revenue for both Google and YouTube. YouTube brought in $5 billion in advertising revenue in the third quarter of 2020 — a sign that advertisers who pulled back on their spending because of the coronavirus earlier in the year may be returning to something resembling normal. YouTube now has more than 30 million music and premium paid subscribers — 35… Source link

The Black List has teamed with Google Assistant to launch the inaugural Storytelling Fellowship. The Black List & Google Assistant Storytelling Fellowship will provide financial and creative support to five writers in the development and execution of a new original feature film script or television pilot that highlights contemporary stories and perspectives from historically underrepresented communities. The five chosen writers will each receive $20,000 for the purpose of supporting… Source link