CNN — The Justice Department and eight states sued Google on Tuesday, accusing the company of harming competition with its dominance in the online advertising market and calling for it to be broken up. The move marks the Biden administration’s first blockbuster antitrust case against a Big Tech company. The …
Read More »U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology
The Justice Department and a group of states sued Google on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally abusing a monopoly over the technology that powers online advertising, in the agency’s first antitrust lawsuit against a tech giant under President Biden and an escalation in legal pressure on one of the world’s …
Read More »Google workers demand ‘psychological safety’ from bosses after mass layoffs
Google employees who survived the company’s recent purge of 12,000 of their now-former colleagues grilled executives during a tense all-hands meeting on Monday — anxiously demanding assurances that their jobs aren’t next on the chopping block. One Google employee based in the UK told management that “psychological safety is paramount” …
Read More »DOJ files second antitrust suit against Google, seeks to break up its ad business
CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai meets Polish Prime Minister at the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022. Mateusz Wlodarczyk | Nurphoto | Getty Images The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed its second antitrust lawsuit against Google in just over two years. It’s the latest sign …
Read More »Annoying CAPTCHA is still big for Google and e-commerce in bot battle, and likely to stay that way
Captcha, vector illustration Denis Lytiagin | Istock | Getty Images Have you ever been left confused by the mutated text that often appears when trying to make an online purchase, asking you to prove you’re not a robot? Or gotten a headache from squinting at your screen, trying to figure …
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