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A Tesla sedan is shown after it struck a parked Laguna Beach Police Department vehicle in Laguna Beach, California, U.S. in this May 29, 2018 handout photo. (Image: Reuters) This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s probe into 11 crashes of Teslas (TSLA) using the company’s… Source link

The federal government’s investigation into Tesla’s (TSLA) Autopilot system following a series of crashes in recent years is a major setback for the car company, one analyst says. “This is definitely a bit of a black eye,” Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “From an investor perspective, especially given it’s the gold standard from a technology perspective, this formal investigation definitely takes a bit of the bloom off the rose when it comes to”… Source link

Arizona State is facing NCAA scrutiny over alleged recruiting violations stemming from last year. (Photo by Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) The NCAA investigation into Arizona State’s football program is expanding, as sources confirmed to Yahoo Sports that the organization has begun reaching out to recruits mentioned in the dossier of documents that detailed potential recruiting violations in the Sun Devils’ program. Yahoo Sports has learned that Mark Strothkamp, a veteran of… Source link

The Amazon logo displayed on a smartphone and a PC screen. Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket via Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s competition regulator on Friday launched a formal probe into Amazon and Google over concerns they haven’t done enough to tackle fake reviews. “We are investigating concerns that Amazon and Google have not been doing enough to prevent or remove fake reviews to protect customers and honest businesses,” Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA, said in a statement. “It’s… Source link

Facebook, Google and Twitter logos are seen in this combination photo from Reuters files. BRASÍLIA, June 23 (Reuters) – A Brazilian Senate committee on Wednesday formally approved a request to call representatives of Google (GOOGL.O), Facebook (FB.O) and Twitter (TWTR.N) to testify in an ongoing probe into the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Senators want to look into what role the companies had in helping to spread potentially dangerous misinformation during the pandemic.

The European Union opened a formal antitrust investigation into allegations that Google abuses its leading role in the advertising-technology sector, the most wide-ranging case yet to look at that pillar of the tech giant’s business. The European Commission, the EU’s top antitrust enforcer, said Tuesday that its investigation, which has been under way informally since at least 2019, will look at a broad array of allegedly anticompetitive business practices around the Alphabet Inc…. Source link

A sign is seen at the entrance to the Google retail store in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, U.S., June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton BRUSSELS, June 18 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google could face its biggest regulatory threat, with EU antitrust regulators set to open a formal investigation into its lucrative digital advertising business before the end of the year, said people familiar with the matter. It would mark a new front by the EU competition enforcer against… Source link

Takashi Mochizuki | Bloomberg The Japanese government will start investigating how Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google deal with Japanese smartphone makers, which could lead to tightening antitrust regulations, the Nikkei newspaper reported Sunday, without saying where it got the information. A government panel, which consists of officials, bureaucrats and external experts, will kick off the discussion this month as Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android software stands at more than 90% of… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google pledges to resolve ad privacy probe with UK watchdog  Associated Press UK competition regulator gets a say in Google’s plan to remove browser cookies  CNBC Google pledges to work with UK regulator in plan to remove browser cookies  Reuters UK CMA to have key oversight role over Google’s planned removal of third-party cookies  GOV.UK View Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Google’s planned changes to ad tracking may face oversight from U.K. regulators after the company made a set of proposals to end an antitrust investigation. The Competition and Markets Authority said the commitments come after its probe into Google’s planned phase-out of third-party cookies used by publishers and advertiser to track users and measure the success of advertising campaigns. The CMA said it was concerned that the planned changes could “impede competition in digital… Source link