Google has told a tribunal in India that the country’s antitrust investigators copied parts of a European ruling against the U.S. firm for abusing the market dominance of its Android operating system, arguing the decision be quashed, legal papers show. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in October fined Alphabet Inc’s Google $161 million for […]
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Alphabet’s Google said on Friday it will appeal the Indian antitrust watchdog’s ruling that ordered the tech giant to change its approach to its Android platform and imposed a fine of $162 million for anti-competitive practices. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) had said in October that Google leveraged its dominant position in markets such […]
Google is one of the, if not the biggest, names worldwide and is a crucial aspect of daily life as an individual or a corporation. The tech giants are owners of technological leaps such as android and, of course, the Google search engine. Such innovations paved the way for Google’s greatness, but they also pushed […]
Google publicized on Tuesday its next step to prevent any future data security threats into Google Accounts by auto-enrolling two-step verification (2SV) for 150 million users by the end of 2021, while enforcing two million YouTube creators to mirror its efforts. With the overtake of cyber breaches spreading across various platforms, companies, and governmental […]
Google plays all its cards to prove its uprightness in anti-competitive behavior, debunking any allegations circulating its market sovereignty as it gets bombarded by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) allegations, report finds. The ACCC’s results revealed that Google’s anti-competitive behavior in providing ad tech services reached its highest level yet as the search […]
Google will delay by nearly two years the phase out of Chrome web browser technology that tracks users for ad purposes, saying that it needs more time to develop a replacement system. The tech giant on Thursday moved its deadline to remove so-called third-party cookies to late 2023 rather than January 2022 as was initially […]
U.K. competition regulators are looking into Apple and Google smartphone operating systems, app stores and browsers, over concern that the control of “mobile ecosystems” by the two tech giants is harming consumers. The Competition and Markets Authority on Tuesday opened a market study of Apple’s iOS, App Store and Safari browser and Google’s Android, Play […]
Google has promised to give U.K. regulators a role overseeing its plan to phase out existing ad-tracking technology from its Chrome browser as part of a competition investigation into the tech giant. The U.K. competition watchdog has been investigating Google’s proposals to remove so-called third-party cookies over concerns they would undermine digital ad competition and […]
German regulators have launched an investigation into Google’s position in the market, and how the search engine and advertising giant handles user data. The Federal Cartel Office, or Bundeskartellamt, said Tuesday that it has started proceedings against Google entities in Germany, Ireland and California based on new provisions in German competition law that apply to […]
Google says it won’t develop new ways to follow individual users across the internet after it phases out existing ad-tracking technology from its Chrome browser, a change that could shake up the online advertising industry. Google says it’s taking the move to protect user privacy. It’s part of a broader shift in the industry as […]