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Meta asks judge to throw out antitrust case mid-trial
Meta has filed a motion for judgment on the antitrust case it’s currently fighting in court. The motion argues that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has failed to produce any evidence that Meta unlawfully monopolized part of the social networking market, something the government argues it did through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The filing was submitted this evening,…
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Meta’s beef with the press flares at its antitrust trial
Long-simmering tension between Silicon Valley and the press that covers it is surfacing during the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust trial against Meta. During a heated cross-examination of the FTC’s key economic expert, Scott Hemphill, Meta’s lead attorney, Mark Hansen, noted that Hemphill joined Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and former Biden official Tim Wu in pitching regulators on an antitrust probe…
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Why Apple is trying to save Google Search in the antitrust fight
Google is in antitrust court, fighting to preserve the search engine business that has made it so historically successful. At a few different moments through the various stages of the trial, high-powered executives from Apple have taken the stand — and largely taken Google’s side. Just this week, Apple’s Eddy Cue made the case that Google is actually in a…
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Mozilla Firefox could be collateral damage in Google’s antitrust battle – Computerworld
“Banning default search placement deals may weaken Google’s grip, but it risks crippling the very alternatives meant to provide choice,” said Sanchit Vir Gogia, CEO and chief analyst at Greyhound Research. “The remedy must distinguish between dominant gatekeepers and dependent participants.” Financial dependency creates unexpected vulnerability In a court testimony on Friday, Muhlheim revealed the extent of Mozilla’s financial dependence…
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Apple will appeal punitive EU antitrust fine – Computerworld
All it really means In theory, these changes mean apps will be sold through multiple competing stores. That won’t be how things shape up, of course. Some stores will turn out to be malware-infested money traps; others will sell illegal or immoral content; others will show themselves over time to lack standards of customer, privacy, or security support; other developers will use…
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Google revises Privacy Sandbox plans amid antitrust ruling – Computerworld
Typically users can be located by capturing and tracking the IP address. The feature will anonymize the IP address, and it will be part of the Incognito mode, which creates a temporary browsing window that deletes browsing data on exit, Google said in a blog post on its Privacy Sandbox website. “The feature will be initially available in certain regions,…
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DOJ targets Google’s AI strategy in landmark antitrust battle – Computerworld
Federal prosecutors warned that Google might leverage artificial intelligence to entrench its search monopoly, demanding “strong measures” to prevent the tech giant from extending its market control into the AI era. In the latest phase of the major antitrust trial that began on Monday, government lawyer David Dahlquist argued that Google has built a system where its control of search…
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Google’s antitrust trial begins with a fight over Chrome, money, and AI
Near the beginning of his opening arguments, David Dahlquist, a lawyer for the US Department of Justice, showed a slide that he described as Google’s “vicious cycle.” It goes like this: Google pays billions of dollars to be the default search engine practically everywhere, thus it gets more search queries, thus it gets better data, thus it is able to…
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Zuckerberg defends his empire during FTC antitrust trial
Making Instagram a separate company. Buying Snapchat. Wiping everyone’s Facebook friends. Creating a feed of only ads. These were some of the ideas that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered over the years as he built his social media empire. Over the past two days, he talked about them from the witness stand at a federal courthouse in Washington, DC, where…
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram purchase in antitrust trial
“Your honor, the FTC calls Mark Zuckerberg.” Flanked by two bodyguards, Meta’s CEO solemnly strode into a Washington, DC courtroom. Despite his last-ditch efforts to avoid a trial, he was there, jaw clenched, to defend his company from being broken up by the US government. Shortly after he was sworn in, the Federal Trade Commission’s lead attorney for the case,…
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