WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss the majority of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Texas and other states that accused the search giant of abusing its dominance of the online advertising market. Google said in its court filing that the states failed to show that it illegally worked with Facebook, now Meta (FB.O), to counter “header bidding,” a technology that publishers developed to make more money from advertising placed on… Source link
Read More »Texas A&M may be back under Jimbo Fisher
At its highest reaches, Kyle Field rises 182 feet, or nearly 17 stories, from the center of the Texas A&M campus in College Station, towering over almost everything else in sight. It is a massive, mammoth construct. It’s so mesmerizing that about a dozen years ago a group of undergrads began dreaming of climbing to the top of it and filming themselves attempting to throw a basketball all the way down into a hoop. It was then that “Dude Perfect” was born. JerryWorld in Arlington may be the… Source link
Read More »Mavs owner Mark Cuban buys small Texas town of Mustang
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, in a plot that feels way too similar to the hit show “Schitt’s Creek,” is now the owner of a small town in Texas. Cuban purchased the town of Mustang, Texas, this week, according to The Dallas Morning News, and now controls all 77 acres of the Navarro County, Texas, community. The longtime “Shark Tank” investor said a good friend needed to sell it, which is why he went through with the deal in the first place. “I don’t know what, if anything, I… Source link
Read More »Motor racing-Perez endures ‘toughest race’ without water in Texas heat
Oct 24 (Reuters) – Red Bull Formula One driver Sergio Perez said Sunday’s U.S. Grand Prix was the hardest and longest race of his life after his car’s water bottle failed and left him dehydrated in the Texas heat. The Mexican finished third in a race won by Dutch team mate Max Verstappen at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, but he was clearly suffering after he got out of the car. “I struggled massively, you know. Since lap one I ran out of water. I couldn’t drink at all,” he said before the… Source link
Read More »FAU, Charlotte, North Texas, UTSA, Rice and UAB look to AAC
The American Athletic Conference is on the cusp of expanding. The league will be examining expansion and is expecting applications from six schools this week: Florida Atlantic, Charlotte, North Texas, UTSA, Rice and UAB, sources told Yahoo Sports. The schools applying to the conference is a critical step in the formal process for new members, and the acceptance of the six schools is typically considered a formality in these situations. The process is expected to play out through the course of… Source link
Read More »Fed Circ. moves West Texas Google, Sonos patent dispute to Calif.
A logo is seen on the New York Google offices. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Dispute spans several jurisdictions, including California and ITC California has stronger local interest in the case Federal Circuit ordered Judge Albright to move similar case on Friday (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday moved Google LLC and Sonos Inc’s West Texas patent case in their global dispute over multi-room audio technology to California federal court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the… Source link
Read More »Horse patrols temporarily suspended at Haitian migrant camp in Del Rio, Texas
Federal agents policing a makeshift encampment for a surge of migrant Haitians in Del Rio, Texas, have stopped using horse patrols after images surfaced of law enforcement on horseback chasing down migrants. The images brought a swift rebuke, with lawmakers criticizing the practice as inhumane and a vow for a swift investigation from the Biden administration. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified this week before Congress about the images. Department of Homeland Security… Source link
Read More »Texas law immediately elevates abortion issue in Virginia governor’s race
TYSONS CORNER, Va. — Abortion emerged as a front-burner issue in the Virginia governor’s race on Wednesday, as the impact of a new near-total ban on the practice in Texas reverberated in one of the year’s marquee political contests. Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who served as Virginia’s governor from 2014 to 2018 but was limited to one term by the state’s constitution, is running again and made sure to mention the Texas law while speaking at a business group luncheon. “I cannot tell… Source link
Read More »Delta variant triggers ‘dramatic spike’ in cases, Texas hospitals ‘are sounding the alarm’: physician
As the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads, Texas currently accounts for nearly 15% of the country’s COVID-19 hospitalizations. A surge in patients has pushed some hospital systems to their limits, with several quickly running out of ICU beds. “Hospitals across Texas are sounding the alarm in ways we have not seen in the other surges,” Dr. Sara Andrabi, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told Yahoo Finance Live. “There are more than 10,000… Source link
Read More »U.S. judicial panel moves Texas lawsuit against Google to New York
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. judicial panel on Tuesday said that Texas’ antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) would be moved to the Southern District of New York, where other similar cases would also be heard. Google had asked that the case, which was filed against it by Texas and other states, be combined with similar cases in U.S. District Court for Northern California. Texas opposed the move, and the request prompted federal legislation aimed at allowing state… Source link
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