Microsoft could not pay apple a price for Bing, the most spiciest parts of the antitrust ruling
A US judge has ruled that Google has “unlawfully” maintained its dominance in search by using anti-competitive deals to keep competitors from gaining traction. He added Apple would have to spend $20 billion in order “to reproduce [Google’s technical] infrastructure dedicated to search”. He further said, “Imagine if Google’s search quality substantially degraded, whether purposely or through neglect.”
The US judge ruled that the search engine was an illegal Monopoly game
Apple received $20 billion in payments from Google in 2022 for the default position on iPhone browsers, an expert witness for Google said during the first two Sessions in the Google-Apple antitrust case. Earlier, the judge had ruled that Google has monopoly power in general search and general search text ads. A weeklong hearing on remedies is expected this year.
We were hoping that this was the Apple TV 4K rival we had been waiting for
Google Home will soon have a voice-over-eye view, new camera intelligence features and a smart Assistant for smart speakers and displays that can learn and understand the home. The Assistant will be able to maintain the context of your conversation and start to learn and understand your home, Google said. The feature will also have natural language input for creating routines.
In a US antitrust case, a judge rules that is a monopolist
A jury in the US found that Google’s deals with partners harm competition in the general search and text ads markets. The jury also found that Google’s deals with manufacturers of mobile devices, browsers and apps led to monopoly in the market for general search and text ads. It also found that Google has monopoly power in both the markets.
A new law protects kids and holds tech companies accountable
Parents of children who died by suicide after experiencing cyberbullying received support from American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). KOSA helps students learn about digital literacy and how they can use internet and social media to protect themselves. ACLU helped shape understanding of KOSA for some students and other youth organisations are advocating for KOSA to become law.
The US Justice Department is suspected of violating the privacy of children
The US has sued TikTok over “age-gating” practices that let its users restart accounts even if they had first entered a birthday showing they were 13 years old. The lawsuit said that TikTok’s age-gating technique “is deficient in multiple ways”. TikTok now allows users to log in through Facebook which makes their accounts “age unknown”, it added.
Trump’s embrace of scurvy could be a disaster
Former US President Donald Trump, while speaking at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference, announced that the country would “never sell” its holdings in Bitcoin. The US would also establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve under his presidency, he added. He also announced that he had asked the Secret Service not to issue media credentials for the conference.
Delta’s CEO said that the CrowdStrike outage cost the airline $500 million in 5 days
Delta Airlines has sued Microsoft’s cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike over the software outage last month which led to thousands of flight cancellations. Delta’s CEO Ed Bastian said, “If you want priority access to the Delta, you need to fix the flaw in CrowdStrike’s deployment processes.” “You can’t come into a mission-critical 24/7 operation and tell us we have a bug,” he added.