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Google has responded to allegations contained in a recently unsealed US antitrust lawsuit that it worked covertly to stall European Union privacy legislation that could have blasted a huge hole in its behaviorial advertising business. Per the US states’ suit, a couple of years after a European Commission proposal to update the EU’s ePrivacy Directive — to replace it with a more widely applicable Regulation — the tech giant was privately celebrating what it described as a… Source link

LISBON, PORTUGAL – NOVEMBER 08: Megan Jones Bell, Headspace, at the HealthConf stage during day … [+] three of Web Summit 2018 at the Altice Arena on November 8, 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2018, more than 70,000 attendees from over 170 countries will fly to Lisbon for Web Summit, including over 1,500 startups, 1,200 speakers and 2,600 international journalists. (Photo by David Fitzgerald /Web Summit via Getty Images) Web Summit via Getty Images Megan Jones… Source link

Cathie Wood: This one simple tailwind will push the bull market to 2038 — here are 3 stocks to ride it With inflation running hot, interest rates on the rise, and valuations stretched, even mainstream Wall Street strategists are predicting major corrections. But one super investor remains bullish — Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood. In an interview with Yahoo Finance Live last month, Wood referenced research by Fundstrat’s Thomas Lee that suggests millennials could power the stock market… Source link

IndexNow – new initiative by Microsoft and Yandex to push content to search engines Your privacy means the world to us. We share your personal information only when you give us explicit permission to do so, and confirm we have your permission each time. Learn more by viewing our privacy… Source link

The real estate company said a payment due on Thursday, for an onshore renminbi-denominated bond, had ‘already been resolved through off-exchange negotiations’. Photo: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images European stock markets were sharply higher on Wednesday as worries over the Evergrande crisis in China started to ease. The real estate company said a payment due on Thursday, for an onshore renminbi-denominated bond, had “already been resolved through off-exchange negotiations”. Traders… Source link

McDonald’s (MCD) is planning to give its iconic Happy Meal toys a major makeover, as big companies push to make their operations more environmentally friendly in the face of climate change. On Tuesday, the Golden Arches announced its plans to make every toy around the world more sustainable by 2025. In order to do so, McDonald’s is working closely with its supply chain to use renewable, recycled or certified materials.  If realized, the fast-food giant estimates it will result in a 90%… Source link

Four Democratic members of Congress are calling for an investigation into whether an alleged secret 2018 agreement between Google and Facebook concerning digital advertising violated federal antitrust law. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Mondaire Jones (D-NY) wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Acting US Attorney General Nicholas Ganjei of Texas asking them to determine whether federal charges might be… Source link

In a political landscape that continues to roil with partisan bickering and hostility in Utah and across the country, finding even a small plot of common real estate is an increasingly remote prospect. But a new Pew Research survey found the reddest Republicans and bluest Democrats share a boogeyman they would all like to see reined in. U.S. Big Tech companies. And that’s a meme that hasn’t been missed by elected officials on both sides of the aisle who are engaged, at the highest… Source link

NEW DELHI, July 15 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google is ramping up cloud infrastructure in India with a second cluster of data centres in and around capital New Delhi to meet increasing customer demands in a key growth market, senior company executives said. The Google cloud region in Delhi and its outskirts is the U.S. tech giant’s second such piece of infrastructure in the country and the tenth in the Asia Pacific. “We have seen enormous growth in demand for Google cloud services… Source link

WASHINGTON — Washington is abuzz with an ambitious new antitrust effort to rein in the power of tech industry power players like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook — and the effort could limit their ascent in the health care industry. Tech companies are already major players in the health care space — think Amazon’s decision to launch its own pharmacy, or Google’s acquisition of Fitbit — and they have their sights set even bigger. If major antitrust reform passes, it could… Source link