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Huawei’s rapid-fire event this Thursday brought many new devices, the most interesting of which are, of course, the new Mate flagships. The ANC over-ear headphones, the fancy smartwatch and the other things are interesting as well, don’t get us wrong, but let’s focus on the phones for now. Starting with…

As Google is hit with a landmark antitrust lawsuit, the people who truly control Google are nowhere to be found. Despite owning controlling shares of the company, Sergey Brin and Larry Page have disappeared from public view, leaving Sundar Pichai to go to war with Washington.  It's allowed the founders…

As per Google, the demand for bicycle navigation on Google Maps has grown rapidly during the COVID-19 outbreak. Requests have grown 69% and Google is now responding with a couple of useful biking-related features and navigation for some major cities. Google has used an AI algorithm, crowdsourced data and data…

Don’t Cross the Streamers Google has been trying to crack the gaming market for some time, and the Stadia has been a step in the right direction despite some teething problems. With many companies opening up to the possibilities of cloud-based streaming as a standard for gaming, Google is looking…

After a wide-ranging 16-month investigation, a congressional subcommittee examining dominance in the technology industry last week recommended more than two dozen updates to the U.S. antitrust system, including implementing nondiscrimination rules that would limit “preferential or discriminatory treatment” by dominant platforms. But such rules can be hard to enforce, experts…

Logo of Google (representational image) | Jason Alden | Bloomberg Text Size: The past few months have seen app stores being propelled to the forefront of public imagination – for instance, the Congressional antitrust hearings of the ‘big four’ tech companies in the United States, which discussed app stores in…

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I just read the US antitrust “Complaint” against Google. This is obviously just the first chapter of a very long story, but here are early observations. Don’t get upset that this is going to take years to work through. Figuring out how to unclench Google’s stranglehold on the Internet wouldn’t…

Following the launch of investigations last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) together with attorney generals from 11 U.S. states filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday alleging that the company maintains monopolies in online search and advertising, and violates laws prohibiting anticompetitive business practices. It’s the first antitrust…

Mozilla has published its initial reaction to the anti-trust case from the US Department of Justice (DoJ) against Google's alleged illegal search monopoly. To properly interpret the missive, it is crucial to understand that Google has been the long-time primary funder of Firefox development thanks to its search deals with…