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Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin built an unstoppable titan, but their biggest innovation may have been a perfectly timed exit from public view Google

Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin built an unstoppable titan, but their biggest innovation may have been a perfectly timed exit from public view

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…
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October 25, 2020
How to stop Google self-preferencing? Europe may not be the model Google

How to stop Google self-preferencing? Europe may not be the model

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…
bubmag
October 23, 2020
India needs laws to regulate app stores but first know how Google, Apple control the system Google

India needs laws to regulate app stores but first know how Google, Apple control the system

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…
bubmag
October 23, 2020
Google Antitrust Notes Google

Google Antitrust Notes

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…
bubmag
October 22, 2020
Artificial intelligence and the antitrust case against Google Google

Artificial intelligence and the antitrust case against Google

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…
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October 21, 2020
Mozilla worried it could be collateral damage in Google anti-trust suit Google

Mozilla worried it could be collateral damage in Google anti-trust suit

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…
bubmag
October 21, 2020
Google Drive using dynamic emails to let you grant file access directly in Gmail Google

Google Drive using dynamic emails to let you grant file access directly in Gmail

Google last year brought AMP to Gmail to make messages more actionable and interactive. Drive will now send dynamic emails to let file owners manage requests directly inside Gmail. Like before, you’ll receive a notification when someone requests permission on a Google Drive file you own. That message will soon…
bubmag
October 20, 2020