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Google’s Legal Chief Faces Rebuke by Judge Over Missing Chats
18Nov By adminNo Comments
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Google’s Legal Chief Faces Rebuke by Judge Over Missing Chats

[ad_1]  A federal judge reprimanded Alphabet Inc.'s chief legal officer over allegations that Google intentionally destroyed sensitive internal communications relevant to two ongoing antitrust lawsuits despite court orders to preserve evidence.In an unusual move, US District Judge James Donato, who's presiding over a trial in San Francisco over Epic Games Inc.'s accusations that the Google Play app store is anticompetitive, ordered the company's longtime top lawyer, Kent Walker, to appear in court to address questions about the technology giant's record-keeping practices.  Thursday's hearing, conducted in the absence of the jury, came after multiple Google executives, including Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai, acknowledged at the witness stand that they incorrectly marked...
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10 things to know from Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s testimony in Google Play trial against Fortnite maker
15Nov By adminNo Comments
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10 things to know from Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s testimony in Google Play trial against Fortnite maker

[ad_1] Google CEO Sundar Pichai took a stand in front of the court for the second time in 2 weeks earlier today in the antitrust lawsuit by Fortnite publisher Epic Games, who have claimed that the unlawful and monopolistic policies implemented in Google Play store make it difficult for third-party app makers given that the marketplace controls the entire Android ecosystem. During the testimony, Pichai spent almost 90 minutes answering questions about the business practices of the Google Play store, as well as general policies in Google. Let us take a look at the 10 biggest things to come from the testimony.Sundar Pichai takes the stand in Google Play antitrust trial1. Pichai admitted to using fake legal privilege by marking documents ‘attorney-client privilege' even when he was not seek...
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Google CEO gets grilling in US antitrust trial
31Oct By adminNo Comments
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Google CEO gets grilling in US antitrust trial

[ad_1] Google CEO Sundar Pichai faced a fierce grilling from a US antitrust lawyer on Monday as he pushed back against accusations that his company acted illegally to preserve the dominance of its world-leading search engine.At the heart of the case by the US Department of Justice is Google's massive revenue sharing deals in which iPhone maker Apple takes a big cut of Google ad revenue made from being the default search engine on Apple devices. Testimony has revealed that Google last year alone paid out a $26 billion to remain the default search engine on various smartphones and browsers, most of which went to Apple. Pichai began his testimony in the Washington courtroom by repeating the company's mission of making information "universally accessible and useful" to all."The mission is m...
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Google Chrome Search bar simplified, makes web navigation easy
19Oct By adminNo Comments
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Google Chrome Search bar simplified, makes web navigation easy

[ad_1] Google Chrome search and address bar, known as the omnibox, has been updated to make it more user-friendly. These changes may seem small, but they all have a common goal: to help you navigate the web without relying on too many Google searches and to find exactly what you are looking for and even prevent you from making mistakes.Google Chrome Search Improved URL Corrections and Smarter AutocompleteWhether you're using Chrome on a computer or mobile device, it will now try to fix your URL typos. For example, if you type "Microsft" or "Microsoft.con," Chrome will suggest the correct website instead of searching for similar terms. The omnibox's autocomplete feature will become smarter by predicting the website you want based on keywords. So, if you type "flights," Chrome may suggest...
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Even the Google Trial Is Talking Up the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce Rumors
28Sep By adminNo Comments
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Even the Google Trial Is Talking Up the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce Rumors

[ad_1] ChatGPT doesn't know whether Taylor Swift is dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.That example was used by Microsoft Corp. executive Mikhail Parakhin this week at the US Justice Department's landmark antitrust trial to illustrate how Alphabet Inc.'s market-dominant Google search engine can't be easily replaced or challenged by new technologies, such as chatbots. The OpenAI chatbot allows users to type in a query and receive a written response, but the data used to train the artificial intelligence system is based on older information culled from the web. Without fresh data — the type provided by users searching for new topics like the pop singer's latest beau — it's unlikely to provide an accurate answer. Swift's rumored new boyfriend Kelce, the two-time Super Bowl wi...
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Google Emails, Memos Hidden From Web as DOJ Caves to Pressure
21Sep By adminNo Comments
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Google Emails, Memos Hidden From Web as DOJ Caves to Pressure

[ad_1] The US Department of Justice has removed public access to emails, charts and internal presentations from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that had come out as evidence in its landmark antitrust lawsuit against the tech titan.Google had challenged the government's posting of the documents online, and the court was sympathetic to its concerns. The result: a trial much more difficult for the public to follow than the similarly monumental and widely watched antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. in the 1990s. The trial, which is expected to last 10 weeks, is the biggest legal reckoning for a big tech company since then. With all the exhibits and evidence unearthed for discussion, it's also a rare look at the inner workings of one of the most influential businesses of the modern era. As the Jus...
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Indian startups go to court to stop Google’s new in-app billing system
12Apr By adminNo Comments
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Indian startups go to court to stop Google’s new in-app billing system

[ad_1] A group of Indian startups has asked a court to suspend Alphabet Inc Google's new in-app billing fee system until the country's antitrust body investigates the U.S. firm for alleged non-compliance with its directives, a legal filing showed.The Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF) last month asked India's antitrust regulator to investigate Google for devising a new system startups say still charges them a high service fee, despite an antitrust directive in October to allow use of third-party billing services for in-app payments. In its April 10 filing at the Delhi High Court, ADIF argues that the antitrust body is yet to hear its complaint promptly even as Google's April 26 implementation date of the so-called User Choice Billing system (UCB) is nearing. The 744-page filing...
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Google tees up venue clash over U.S. advertising antitrust lawsuit
3Feb By adminNo Comments
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Google tees up venue clash over U.S. advertising antitrust lawsuit

[ad_1] Lawyers for Alphabet Inc's Google LLC on Wednesday said they will ask a federal judge in Virginia to move the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit to Manhattan federal court, where the company is already fighting claims that it has abused its market power for online advertising technology. In a filing in the Manhattan litigation, Google's attorneys said transferring the lawsuit was necessary for "judicial efficiency and to mitigate the obvious risk of inconsistent judgments." Google said the new DOJ case, filed jointly with eight states last month, which also alleges advertising-related abuses, overlaps with multidistrict litigation in New York that formed in 2021. Google's planned effort sets up an early possible flashpoint in the new lawsuit. The DOJ can be expecte...
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