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Google faces judge’s questions as it asks court to toss U.S. antitrust lawsuit
WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) – Google confronted pointed thoughts from a decide on Thursday as it argued that the U.S. Justice Department’s allegations that it broke antitrust regulation to develop and retain its dominance of search are flawed and that the agency’s lawsuit need to be thrown out. The authorities, which submitted its lawsuit in the waning days of the Trump administration, has argued that Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google acts illegally in shelling out billions of pounds just about every year to smartphone makers like Apple, LG, Motorola and Samsung, carriers like Verizon and browsers like Mozilla to be the default search for their shoppers. Decide Amit Mehta actively questioned Google’s…
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The top Biden lawyer with his sights on Apple and Google
From almost the instant Kanter took place of work in November 2021, he signaled he wished a unique approach. He inherited quite a few situations from his predecessor, and as an alternative of having the a lot more typical — and much less expensive — route of settling them, he declared he’d be bringing them to court docket to block the mergers fully. (The effective circumstance versus Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster was submitted right before he begun.) In his harder strategy, he had an ally across town: Khan, who was confirmed as FTC chair five months previously. Even though the DOJ and FTC have unique remits…
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Google strikes back in search antitrust lawsuit
Courts have unsealed Google’s motion to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit above its research motor — one particular that could fracture a main Google service in purchase to enhance on the internet competitiveness. In a movement for summary judgment filed on December 12th, the firm argues that the criticism misrepresents its agreements with browser developers and Android cellular phone makers, unfairly punishing its good results. “Requiring Google not to compete vigorously — or requiring browser builders to change their product models and offer a worse working experience for their prospects,” it suggests, “would flip levels of competition regulation on its head.” The US Division of Justice and a coalition of condition…
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Google, YouTube content providers must face U.S. children’s privacy lawsuit
Dec 28 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit accusing Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google and various other corporations of violating the privacy of youngsters underneath age 13 by monitoring their YouTube activity without having parental consent, in buy to mail them targeted advertising and marketing. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle claimed Congress did not intend to pre-empt state regulation-based privacy claims by adopting the federal Kid’s On-line Privacy Defense Act, or COPPA. That regulation gives the Federal Trade Commission and condition lawyers common, but not private plaintiffs, the authority to regulate the on the web collection of personalized info about small children…
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Lawyer for wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin rips ‘defamatory’ report of Elon Musk affair: ‘Outright lie’
Fox Country host Kat Timpf joined ‘Kennedy’ to examine a Wall Road Journal report that mentioned the billionaire experienced an affair with the spouse of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The law firm for the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin adamantly denied the bombshell report by The Wall Street Journal that she had an affair with Elon Musk and that it sparked her divorce. In an distinctive assertion to The Daily Mail on Tuesday, Bryan Freedman, the lawyer representing Brin’s spouse of virtually 4 many years, Nicole Shanahan, claimed, “Make no error, any suggestion that Nicole experienced an affair with Elon Musk is not only an outright lie but also…
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