Four more states have joined a lawsuit filed by Texas and others against Alphabet Inc’s Google that accuses it of breaking antitrust laws…
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Australia to investigate Apple’s default search deal with Google
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is focused on internet browser defaults, including Apple’s default search deal with Google …
U.S. government asks Google for detailed search data in antitrust case
U.S. government antitrust authorities asked Alphabet unit Google to fork over granular information on how its search engine works…
Details about Apple default search deal shows how Google discourages competition
The DOJ’s case against Google’s centers on its practice of spending billions of dollars a year to become the default search engine on…
Apple seeks to keep competitive secrets from Google in-house lawyers
In a filing Friday in federal court in Washington, Apple said confidential competitive secrets it provided to the U.S. DOJ for the Google …
Apple steps up efforts to develop alternative to Google search monopoly
Apple has increased its efforts to develop its own search technology as competition authorities in the U.S. and Europe question its deal…
Google pays Apple $8 billion to $12 billion per year to be default search on iPhones, iPads, and Macs
Last Tuesday, the DOJ filed a landmark lawsuit against Google and homed in on the Google’s annual multi-billion dollar payment to Apple to…
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz: Big tech companies like Google are ‘drunk on power’
“Big tech is, I believe, drunk on power. They are getting more brazen.” — U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Cruz voiced displeasure over…
DOJ antitrust lawsuit targets Google’s multibillion-dollar default search pact with Apple
The U.S. DOJ antitrust lawsuit is targeting Google’s multibillion-dollar default search pact with Apple. The Justice Department’s lawsuit…
Google is finally getting the antitrust treatment it deserves
The U.S. Justice Department today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday for allegedly breaking the law…
U.S. DOJ cites Apple deal in antitrust charges against Alphabet’s Google
The United State’s Department of Justice on Tuesday filed antitrust charges against Alphabet’s Google that focus on the company’s…
U.S. DOJ says Google breakup may be needed to end violations of antitrust law
The U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday, claiming the $1 trillion company uses its…
U.S. government to file antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday
The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday for allegedly breaking the law…
U.S. DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Google is imminent
The U.S. DOJ is expected to brief state attorneys general this week about its imminent plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google …
Apple may be preparing a search engine to take on Google
Changes in Spotlight Search on iOS and iPadOS 14 beta, a significant update to its Applebot support page, and an increase in crawling…
Analyst: Apple should buy DuckDuckGo search engine
In a new note to clients, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi suggests that Apple should buy DuckDuckGo, the search engine which he values at…
U.S. Department of Justice gearing up for antitrust investigation of Google
The Justice Department is gearing up for an antitrust investigation of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, a move that could present a major new layer of regulatory scrutiny for the search giant…
Should Apple have its own search engine?
Apple CEO Tim Cook was made to answer a very uncomfortable question…
Tim Cook: Why Apple accepts billions annually from Google to be Safari’s default search engine despite privacy concerns
Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t name names when he spoke out against the privacy practices…
DuckDuckGo: What it’s like to use a search engine that values your privacy
DuckDuckGo prides itself on not tracking users…
Mark Zuckerberg loses $16 billion in record Facebook fall
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took an almost $16 billion hit on Thursday…
Facebook stock plunges as users vanish
Facebook Inc’s stock fell as much as 24 percent after hours on Wednesday over concerns…
Silicon Valley execs will convene in San Francisco to discuss privacy
Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene..
The 18 things you may not realize Facebook knows about you: Firm reveals the extent of its spying in a 454-page document to U.S. Congress
The creepy ways Facebook spies on its users have been detailed in a bumper document…
Apple pummels privacy-trampling Facebook
In the early days of Apple, of course, the company’s Evil Empires were IBM and Microsoft…
Facebook confirms sharing users’ personal data with Chinese companies
Facebook Inc said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies…
Apple needs to advertise their strong commitment to privacy
The greatest commercial in Apple history — perhaps all history — did not show an Apple product…
Apple borks Facebook’s pervasive personal data-harvesting operation
Apple’s software-focused event on Monday was a momentous moment — for Facebook…
Apple requested ‘zero’ personal data in deals with Facebook – CEO Tim Cook
“We’ve never been in the data business,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told NPR on Monday…
Facebook CEO blasts Apple’s latest privacy protections as ‘cute virtue signaling’
Apple is taking active steps to block Facebook’s data collection practices…
Facebook gave personal data to 60 companies including Apple, Amazon and Samsung
Facebook struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users’ personal information…
Mark Zuckerberg’s worldwide Facebook apology tour hits a snag in the EU
Turns out “sorry” doesn’t seem to work as much for the social network’s chief anymore…
How to delete the search, browsing and viewing history Google keeps on you
Google is making it easier to see the search, browsing and YouTube viewing history it keeps on you…
How to remove third-party accounts like Facebook from your Mac
With the release of iOS 11, Apple nixed its built-in integration with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Vimeo…
Apple responds to personal data request with 9MB file: The personal data archives from Facebook and Google were 881MB and 243MB respectively
Following Facebook’s acknowledgement that it had let a political ad targeting firm scrape the personal data of millions of users…
WSJ tries really hard to gin up negative Apple news and fails laughably
The licensing fees that Google-parent Alphabet Inc. pays to Apple Inc. to direct traffic to its search business…
Cambridge Analytica shuts down after Facebook user-data scandal
Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign…
EU antitrust chief says investigation of Google’s Android, AdSense is advancing
Investigations into how Google may be using its Android smartphone operating system…
Beleaguered Facebook heading down a troubled path
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica saga is not going away quietly, underscored by Mark Zuckerberg’s…
Facebook points fingers Google, Amazon and Twitter for also harvesting user data
Facebook wants users to know that it’s not the only one tracking their every move on the internet…
Beleaguered Facebook may face billions in fines over facial recognition tool storing biometric data without user consent
Facebook could face billions of dollars in fines after a federal judge ruled that the company…
I was one of the very first people on Facebook. I shouldn’t have trusted Mark Zuckerberg
Fourteen years, two months, and eight days ago, I made a mistake…
