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Slowing ad sales, an antitrust suit, and ChatGPT on deck

Slowing ad sales, an antitrust suit, and ChatGPT on deck

Google parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) will report its Q4 earnings after the bell on Wednesday as investors and analysts look for signs that the broader digital advertising market has hit its bottom. Here’s what Wall Street expects from the company, as compiled by Bloomberg, compared to how the company performed in the same period last year. Alphabet had a 20-to-1 stock split in July 2022. The company, like Meta (META) and Snap (SNAP), is working to overcome a slowdown in the digital… Source link

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Feds poised to file another antitrust suit against Google this week: report

Feds poised to file another antitrust suit against Google this week: report

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to sue Alphabet Inc. in the coming days over its dominance in the online ad market, according to a report late Monday. Citing sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reported the antitrust suit is expected to be filed in federal court before the end of this week, and as soon as Tuesday. The pending filing has been rumored for months, after the Justice Department reportedly rejected concessions offered by… Source link

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Google Defeats One Suit Over Chrome Data Privacy Practices

Google Defeats One Suit Over Chrome Data Privacy Practices

New You can now listen to Insurance Journal articles! Alphabet Inc.’s Google defeated a privacy lawsuit by consumers who accused the company of snooping on them even after they opted out of sharing their web activity. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Monday dismissed claims that Google tracked users’ personal information, including IP addresses and browsing history, if they chose not to “Sync” their Google accounts with Chrome — and even if they didn’t have an… Source link

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Australian court dismisses suit against Google over personal data use

Australian court dismisses suit against Google over personal data use

Dec 9 (Reuters) – Australia’s competition regulator said on Friday its lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google that alleged consumers were misled about expanded use of personal data for targeted advertising had been dismissed by a court. The proceedings, initiated by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission in July 2020, alleged Google did not explicitly take consent from users about a change made in 2016 that combined personal information in Google accounts with activity on… Source link

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Play Store revamp, Google antitrust suit updates, BeReal’s real traction • TechCrunch

Play Store revamp, Google antitrust suit updates, BeReal’s real traction • TechCrunch

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by the pandemic has slowed down. But overall, the app economy is continuing to grow, having produced a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and… Source link

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Google settles Arizona location data suit for $85 million

Google settles Arizona location data suit for  million

Google will pay $85 million to settle a lawsuit by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office over the way the tech giant has used customers’ location data. The settlement averts a trial that was scheduled to begin on Oct. 24. Catch up quick: Attorney General Mark Brnovich began investigating Google in 2018 after the Associated Press reported that some of the company’s apps continued tracking and storing users’ location data even after they turned off the location history feature. Brnovich sued… Source link

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