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Roku Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google failed to reach a renewal agreement over the distribution of YouTube TV, meaning that the online-cable service will no longer be available in Roku’s channel store. The companies’ carriage agreement for YouTube TV had been up for renewal, sparking a dispute between Roku ROKU, -2.81% and Google GOOG, -0.74% GOOGL, -1.48% about the new terms. Roku said that Google Source link

Roku’s streaming devices are among the most popular in the US.  Sarah Tew/CNET Roku said Friday that Google‘s… Source link

Bloomberg Copper Extends Rally to Top $10,000 With All-Time High in Sight (Bloomberg) — Copper topped $10,000 a metric ton for the first time since 2011, nearing the all-time high set that year as rebounding economies stoke demand and mines struggle to keep up.Prices rose as much as 1.3% to $10,008 a ton on the London Metal Exchange, before slipping back to trade near unchanged. The metal hit a record $10,190 in February 2011.Copper has been among the best performers in a month where metals… Source link

Google has announced new Play Store policies and guidelines designed to make app listings more succinct, accurate, and less of an eyesore. New guidelines affecting the screenshots and videos meant to demonstrate an app’s features and functionality will come into force in the second half of 2021, while specific details about the enforcement of new policies for app titles, icons, and descriptions are coming “later this year.” The new app metadata policies will ban a variety of tricks… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google and Apple attacked on app store ‘monopoly’  BBC News Source link

In a lengthy Senate hearing, the app makers said Apple and Google’s rules surrounding in-app payments and app updates allow the tech giants to choke off rival services, and that they engage in retaliation when app developers refuse to comply. The occasionally tense showdown highlighted how antitrust scrutiny of Apple is ramping up after more than a year of similar focus on its peers such as Amazon, Facebook and Google. And lawmakers were clear that the hearing would serve as a springboard… Source link

A panel of U.S. Senators questioned officials from Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Wednesday about the dominance of their mobile app stores and whether the companies abuse their power at the expense of smaller competitors. Amy Klobuchar, the top Senate Democrat on antitrust issues, said Apple and Google can use their power to “exclude or suppress apps that compete with their own products” and “charge excessive fees that affect competition.” App makers like music… Source link

A 3D printed Google logo is placed on the Apple Macbook in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/ Senior executives with Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google and Apple (AAPL.O) will testify on Wednesday about antitrust concerns related to their app stores along with executives of three companies which rely on those online stores, the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel said on Monday. The hearing will include Google Government Affairs Senior… Source link

Walmart (WMT), which recently gave many of its workers a raise, said on Wednesday that two-thirds of its hourly associates will be full-time with consistent schedules by the end of the current fiscal year. Of Walmart’s 1.2 million hourly U.S. store associates, approximately 740,000 will be full-time hourly associates by Jan. 31, 2022. Going back to 2016, about 53% of Walmart’s hourly store workers were full-time — meaning just over 100,000 will have been moved to full-time status in that… Source link

After it looked like Apple might no-show, the company has committed to sending a representative to a Senate antitrust hearing on app store competition later this month. Last week, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Mike Lee (R-UT) put public pressure on the company to attend the hearing, which will be held by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights. Klobuchar chairs that subcommittee and has turned her focus toward antitrust worries about… Source link