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You can now buy the Pixel 4A from Google for just $9 per month over 24 months as part of the new Google Fi phone subscription program. That monthly cost means you’d pay just just $216 for the phone, a substantial savings over its $349 upfront price. After you’ve made all 24 payments, you own the phone. You can also elect to add in a $6 per month device protection plan, meaning your monthly subscription cost is $15. That protection plan covers up to two incidents of accidental damage… Source link

But as Lina M. Khan, a professor at Columbia Law School, argued in an influential Yale Law Journal article in 2017, price is not the only metric by which to measure anti-competitive behavior, and consumer satisfaction with a company does not prove the absence of harm. “The harm is to competition,” Tim Wu, also a professor at Columbia Law School, told The Times, “and the consumer loses as a result.” How? Hidden costs: As my colleague David Leonhardt notes, Google’s control over… Source link

The all-new Petal Maps on Huawei phones could be a game-changer. David Phelan The Huawei Mate 40 Pro has been revealed and it looks pretty amazing. But if you listened carefully to the keynote, you’d have heard another announcement that sounded less interesting but could prove to be crucial. MORE FROM FORBESiPhone 2020: 1 Unexpected Thing Apple Didn’t Mention At The KeynoteBy David Phelan Now that the current issues between Huawei and the U.S…. Source link

The historic lawsuit will be an underlying theme, both in the short and long term, when Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, +1.63% GOOG, +1.58% Google announces third-quarter results on Oct. 29 — the same day as Facebook Inc. FB, +2.39%, Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +0.88%, Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.61% and a raft of other tech companies. Antitrust story lines abound. On Oct. 28, Google… Source link

Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Google is reportedly allowing its artificial intelligence technology for the Trump administration’s “virtual” border wall. The move comes nearly two years after it controversially ended its work with Project Maven. According to The Intercept, the tech giant won a contract from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide its Google Cloud technology to facilitate the use of artificial intelligence… Source link

Chinnapong / Shutterstock Earlier this month, there was some big news shared at Pubcon in Las Vegas that is sure to shake up the way law firms see the internet as a business development tool. Google expert John Mueller announced that effective March 2021, Google will be rolling out their “mobile first” indexing which is sure to change the game of search engine optimization (SEO) and lead generation online. Source link

The Google Maps Platform, the developer side of Google Maps, is launching a new service for on-demand rides and delivery companies today that ties together some of the platform’s existing capabilities with new features for finding nearby drivers and sharing trip and order progress information with customers. This isn’t Google Maps Platform’s first foray into this business. Back in 2018, the company launched a solution for in-app navigation for ridesharing companies, for example…. Source link

The Justice Department says Google CEO Sundar Pichai (left) met privately with Apple chief Tim Cook in 2018 to discuss how their two companies could collaborate. Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption … Source link

A new feature being internally tested at Google could remove the need to say “Hey Google” before voicing commands to Nest Hub smart displays, Android Central reports. Instead, the feature codenamed “Blue Steel” could allow the device to simply sense your presence, and proactively listen for commands without first needing to hear the wake word. The functionality has been shown off in a video posted to YouTube by Jan Boromeusz, who Android Central notes previously leaked features… Source link

Jeffrey A. Rosen, the deputy attorney general, wouldn’t normally oversee an antitrust investigation into Google. It would usually fall to the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division. But that official, Makan Delrahim, recused himself because the company is a former legal client. So Mr. Rosen took the lead on the investigation, and on Tuesday he announced the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Google, which accuses the company of illegally protecting its monopoly over… Source link