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Google’s stranglehold on the mapping space could be challenged by new initiative from Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and others

December 15, 2022 Google News 0

Google’s stranglehold on the mapping space could be challenged by new initiative from Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and others

Meta, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and mapping company TomTom have launched a new mapping initiative in partnership with The Linux Foundation that could challenge the dominance Google holds in the mapping world, TechCrunch reports. The recently launched Overture Maps Foundation aims to encourage the development of new map products with openly available databases members can contribute to and reuse across companies and apps. It will additionally use open data that already exists from… Source link

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U.K. to investigate Apple and Google’s ‘stranglehold’ over browsing

November 22, 2022 Google News 0

U.K. to investigate Apple and Google’s ‘stranglehold’ over browsing

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority launched an investigation into Apple and Google‘s control of the mobile browser market Tuesday. The authority will explore the companies’ “stranglehold” over browsing, as well as Apple’s control over cloud gaming through the App Store, it said in a release. The authority said Google and Apple powered 97% of all web browsing that took place in the U.K. in 2021. Web developers, cloud gaming service providers and browser vendors have offered… Source link

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