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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google wants judge to decide whether it violated antitrust laws because jurors wouldn’t get it  Fortune Source link

The biggest shortcoming so far of new state salary transparency laws is preposterously wide pay ranges, often covering more than a six-figure span. For instance, the base pay range for a database engineer at Apple in Cupertino, Calif, is listed between $130,000 and $242,000. At Tesla, a business analyst position in Palo Alto, Calif., offers $68,000 to $234,000 — a range of $166,000. Even more mind-blowing, the range for a software engineer at Netflix in Los Gatos, Calif., is typically… Source link

Securities & Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler suggested Wednesday in an exclusive interview with Yahoo Finance Live failed crypto exchange FTX violated securities laws by using customer assets to trade at its affiliated hedge fund, Alameda Research. “I can’t speak to any one case or any one situation, but our securities laws say that you need to properly segregate customer funds,” Gensler said. “You also shouldn’t be running a broker dealer or a hedge fund, and an exchange. The New York… Source link

About four years ago, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence by the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. It was a powerful perch. Congress tasked the new group with a broad mandate: to advise the U.S. government on how to advance the development of artificial intelligence, machine learning and other technologies to enhance the national security of the United States. The mandate was simple: Congress directed the new… Source link

Australian courts may not be able to enforce an order that Google pay John Barilaro more than $700,000 in defamation damages because of free speech protections in US law, legal academics say. Google, the owner of YouTube, was on Monday ordered to pay the former New South Wales deputy premier aggravated damages over a series of defamatory “racist” and “abusive” videos published on the YouTube channel Friendlyjordies. Federal court justice Stephen Rares ruled that Barilaro had been left… Source link

Australia’s competition watchdog is the latest to push for legal powers to curb Google’s dominance in the adtech sector. It has made the call as it published its final report on an inquiry examining competition concerns in the digital advertising sector. In the report, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) concludes that new regulatory solutions are needed to address Google’s dominance and competition to the adtech sector — “for the benefit of businesses… Source link

But last year, in an company email, a Google manager said it appeared that there were 16 additional countries, including Brazil, Canada, Australia and Mexico, with some form of equal treatment laws for temps that the company had not properly recognized and had not taken any extra steps to be compliant with the local laws. As more countries implement new regulations, Google is being forced to take action. The Netherlands passed a new law in 2019 that required Google’s staffing agencies to… Source link

A customer uses an Apple iPhone to pay via the Apple Pay system, from their Santander account, at the check-out inside a Pret A Manger store. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Australian government is considering new laws that would tighten the regulation of digital payment services by tech giants such as Apple and Alphabet‘s Google. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said he would “carefully consider” that and other recommendations from a government-commissioned report into whether the… Source link

A smartphone with the Apple Pay logo is placed on a displayed Google Pay logo in this illustration taken on July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration SYDNEY, Aug 30 (Reuters) – The Australian government is considering new laws that would tighten the regulation of digital payment services by tech giants such as Apple (AAPL.O) and Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O). Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said he would “carefully consider” that and other recommendations from a government-commissioned report… Source link

Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, has brushed off a warning by major tech companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter that they may quit the Chinese-controlled city if authorities go ahead with plans to change privacy laws. Lam told reporters on Tuesday that the proposed changes would only target illegal “doxxing” – the act of sharing people’s private details online without their consent. That practice came under scrutiny in Hong Kong during the anti-government… Source link