A French appeals court upheld an order for Google to open negotiations with French publishers over payments to use their news content.
French court: Google must open payment talks with publishers
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12 Accusations in the Damning House Report on Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
House lawmakers released a scathing report on four of the world’s largest tech companies, accusing them of abusing their market power. The report, which was released on Tuesday and concludes a 16-month investigation into Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, recommended breaking up the companies and passing the most sweeping reforms to antitrust laws in decades.
The Problem Is in the Internet’s Bones: Book review: The Tangled Web We Weave: Inside the Shadow System That Shapes the Internet by James Ball
It was as if the Interstate System of highways had been built using volunteer road crews, working without a map. No one present at the 1969 creation of the network that later became the internet imagined that this niche Pentagon project — built as a research tool for a small group of academic computer scientists — would one day become the backbone of the global economy.
US House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’ and Urge Their Breakups
House lawmakers who spent the last 16 months investigating the practices of the world’s largest technology companies said on Tuesday that Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google had exercised and abused their monopoly power and called for the most sweeping changes to antitrust laws in half a century.
CIRA joins Digital Main Street’s ShopHERE powered by Google to provide .CA domains to Canadian businesses
As Canadian businesses pivot to digital amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is working with Digital Main Street and Google Canada to offer .CA domain names to the thousands of Canadian small businesses accessing the ShopHERE powered by Google programme.
‘No laughing matter’: Google enlists comedian to help in fight against Australia’s news code
Greta Lee Jackson stars in Google’s latest campaign salvo, which comes as the Australian competition regulator wraps up the consultation period with digital platforms and news publishers before the proposed mandatory news code becomes law. The search giant claims the proposal is “extreme” and unfair.
US Justice Dept. Case Against Google Is Said to Focus on Search Dominance
The Department of Justice’s impending lawsuit against Google has narrowed to focus on the company’s power over internet search, a decision that could set off a cascade of separate lawsuits from states in ensuing weeks over the Silicon Valley giant’s dominance in other business segments.
Domain Name Keywords Do Not Increase Search Ranking: John Mueller
Do you need to include keywords in your domain name? The answer is no. That’s according to Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller who addressed the issue in a recent Google Webmasters where Mueller was specifically asked “Does a .jobs domain help rank for ‘jobs’?” Mueller says it’s more important to build up a website with quality content than focus on a domain name with a keyword.
Europe Feels the Squeeze as Tech Competition Heats Up Between U.S. and China
Lacking a powerful technology sector of its own, the European Union has instead tried to carve out a space in the digital economy as the world’s regulatory superpower, leading the charge on privacy rights and data protection by leveraging its enormous single market against Goliaths like Google and Facebook.
Google and Apple app stores investigated by Australia’s competition watchdog
Australia’s competition watchdog has launched an inquiry into how Google and Apple run their app stores for Android and iOS devices.