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Google should relax ad tech rules, appoint antitrust monitor, US judge findsU.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, gave her assessment in a decision unsealed on Wednesday, two weeks after she r...
Google changes spam policy in EU to avert antitrust fineThe EU said that its monitoring showed that Google's spam policy demoted news media and other publishers' websites and content in Google s...
EU to crack down on AI deepfakes, illicit imagery and hacking with new team in BrusselsThe European Union has launched a new team to regulate AI companies worldwide. This initiative aims to track AI model usage for violations ...
Google offers changes to spam policy to avert EU antitrust fineGoogle has offered to revise its spam policy, which publishers criticized for negatively impacting their search rankings. This move aims to...
Google targeted by EU over its search advertising auction practicesThe European Commission said it has indications of potential concerns regarding the auctions for the sale of advertising on Google Search...
Google hit with EU antitrust investigation into its spam policyIts site reputation abuse policy targets the practice of publishing third-party pages on a site in an attempt to abuse search rankings by t...
Will Google be forced to sell Chrome? Department of Justice demands divestmentThe Department of Justice, under new leadership, has revised its approach to Google's antitrust case but maintains that the tech giant must...
What's next in Google's court battle with the US Justice Department?Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will rule sometime in 2024 on whether any of Google's actions brok...
Tech group AOM's video licensing policy no longer in EU antitrust crosshairsThe European Commission, which acts as the competition enforcer for the 27-country bloc, had been investigating alleged anti-competitive be...
Germany mulls placing Microsoft under close watchThe Federal Cartel Office said it was taking a first step to see if Microsoft is of "paramount significance across markets".
German, Australian competition watchdogs to follow CCI's steps on GoogleGermany's national competition regulatory agency Bundeskartellamt and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), have been ...
Google drops appeal against 500 million euro fine by French regulatorFrance hit Google with a fine of 500 million euros in July last year euros after finding breaches in how it negotiated with publishers to r...
EU agrees on internet rulebook for Google, Facebook, other tech giantsThe new rules ban targeted advertising aimed at children or based on sensitive data such as religion, gender, race and political opinions. ...
Swedish price comparison site PriceRunner sues Google for $2.4 billionThe Swedish tech startup filed its suit with the Patent and Market Court in Stockholm after the European Union General Court ruled that Goo...
US judge overseeing Google case will sell mutual funds holding Alphabet stockJudge Amit Mehta said he learned that "some of our mutual fund holdings do contain two different classes of Alphabet stock" and directed th...
Microsoft’s Nokia deal to face China limits on patent feesChinese mobile phone makers asked regulators to make sure Microsoft’s 5.44-billion euro bid to take over Nokia Oyj’s handset business doesn...
- Microsoft's European Union antitrust probe nears end
Microsoft Corp’s decade-long struggle against a EU antitrust probe that led to more than $2.1 billion in fines will enter its final phase o...
- Google, US govt close to agreement on ITA Software acquisition
Google and the Justice Department are close to an agreement that would clear the search giant's USD 700 million acquisition of ITA Software.
- Key senator intervenes in Google, Yahoo deal investigations
A key senator has urged the US Justice Department to keep up its investigation into the antitrust implications of the Google, Yahoo ad deal...
- Google seeks to scuttle Microsoft bid for Yahoo
Technology behemoth Google is reportedly planning to scuttle Microsoft's plans to buy out Yahoo.