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Summary Companies Law firms Related documents Epic Games, others accuse Google of deleting evidence Google’s lawyers call bid “meritless” (Reuters) – Google parent Alphabet Inc on Thursday denied claims in an antitrust case in California federal court that the company had deleted employees’ electronic “chats” to deprive plaintiffs of evidence in their case alleging anticompetitive conduct within the Google Play Store. Lawyers for Google at law firms Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and at Munger, Tolles &… Source link

Semiconductor stocks have had a rough few months, and Deutsche Bank recently released a report projecting that this earning season could reveal more signs of weakness. Qualcomm (QCOM) CEO Cristiano Amon continues to project optimism about where demand for chips is headed — at least, long-term. He contends that the chip shortage that began at the onset of COVID-19 forced people beyond the industry to understand the importance of semiconductors. Qualcomm’s chips are in products as varied as… Source link

LAS VEGAS — It’s palpable, the instant when a legend lives up to its lore. When a 7-foot-3 French phenom — the most heralded international basketball prospect since Yao Ming two decades earlier — crosses the ocean and rains 3-pointers before 200 NBA scouts and the entire basketball world. To do so, Victor Wembanyama, the gargantuan 18-year-old widely presumed to be the No. 1 pick in next June’s draft, overcame a slow start in Tuesday night’s exhibition against the G League Ignite…. Source link

With the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro set for a full launch in October, the July reveal of the Pixel 6a (some nine months after the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro) may feel like a late addition to last year’s portfolio. Where does the Pixel 6a fit into Google’s smartphone plans over the next few years? How does it tell the story that Google wants to portray? And how can it make the device one that consumers will want to buy? Google’s Pixel 6a Ewan Spence The Pixel 6A Is Not For The Six Family, But… Source link

A steep drop in building permits in August overshadowed the better-than-expected rise in new residential construction and offered fresh evidence of a housing slowdown. “In short, ignore the headline starts numbers,” Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, wrote. “The collapse in single-family permits is the real story, and it has much further to go.” Residential starts — including both single- and multi-family units — increased 12.2% last month to a 1.575 million… Source link

If you look around Google’s Mountain View, CA offices, you’ll see Windows machines, Chromebooks, Macs — and gLinux desktops. G what, you ask? Well, in addition to  relying on Linux for its servers, Google has its very own Linux desktop distribution. You can’t get it — darn it! — but for more than a decade, Google has been baking and eating its own homemade Linux desktop distribution. The first version was Goobuntu. (As you’d guess from the name, it was… Source link

LAS VEGAS — Orlando Magic rookie Paolo Banchero was satisfied with what he was hearing leading up to the 2022 NBA draft. “Just all the stuff that was being put out there was that I was going No. 3 to Houston,” Banchero told Yahoo Sports after he was shut down from Summer League competition after two games. “That’s kind of where my mind was at, and I was fine with it. I was going to be happy wherever I ended up because I knew at the end of the day I would be fine. But in Houston, I… Source link

Yeardley Smith, best know as the voice of The Simpsons‘ Lisa, has married her love Dan Grice — and the story behind it is one that would make the likes of the late Nora Ephron fire up their laptop. Smith explained to the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday that the pair met when he served as her personal bodyguard in 2014 as she visited Springfield, Ore. After having dealt with a stalker, Smith reluctantly agreed to producers’ pleas to represent her juggernaut show at the… Source link

Wynonna Judd opens up about her grief and “personal healing work” following mom Naomi’s death by suicide. (Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images for CMT) With Monday marking one month since Naomi Judd’s death by suicide on April 30, her daughter and singing partner Wynonna Judd is reflecting on the loss and the lessons she learned as she navigates grief. On Sunday, the country star, 57, took to Instagram to “check in” and reflect on losing her mother to mental illness. Naomi, 76, died just one day… Source link

The tail end of first quarter earnings season has brought two clear investor desires — more cash and less inventory — to the fore. Tech companies are scrambling to gather the former while retailers are stuck with too much of the latter. And in their own way, each industry is telling the market that a paradigm shift brought on during the pandemic has turned into a passing phase of this economic cycle. Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS) became the latest retailer to report bloated inventories on… Source link