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OnePlus isn’t forcing AI features on its users like Google and Samsung collectively want to promote in what appears to be a largely stagnated smartphone market that’s lately starved of innovation. While the OnePlus 12 will find its fair share of buyers thanks to its raw power and performance, it isn’t as exciting as OnePlus’s latest foldabl...

Japan's anti-trust watchdog said Monday it is investigating whether Google violated rules by asking smartphone manufacturers for preferential treatment.

US prosecutors have accused FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried of witness tampering and asked a federal judge to issue an order that would bar the former billionaire and other parties from making public statements likely to interfere with a fair trial. The prosecutors wrote to US District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Thursday referencing a New York Times artic...

The European Commission accused Google on Wednesday of abusing its dominance of the online ad market and recommended the US company sell part of its ad services to ensure fair competition.

The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said on Tuesday that Google bolstered its market dominance, and hurt local app market One Store's revenue and value as a platform, by requiring video game makers to exclusively release their titles on Google Play in exchange for providing in-app exposure between June 2016 and April 2018.

Google will have to pay the penalty of Rs 1,337.76 crore imposed by the fair trade regulator CCI, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal ruled today.

Fair trade regulator CCI on Thursday alleged that Google has created a digital data hegemony and called for a market space with "free, fair and open competition". Concluding the arguments of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) before the appellate tribunal NCLAT in the Google matter, Additional Solicitor General N Venkataraman said a market w...

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Wednesday refused to grant immediate relief to Google and directed the US firm to pay 10 percent of the Rs 1,337.76-crore penalty imposed on the tech giant by fair trade regulator CCI. The apellate tribunal has issued notices to the Competition Commission of India and the matter will be listed ...

The Competition Commission on Thursday imposed a penalty of Rs 1,337.76 crore on Google for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets in the android mobile device ecosystem. Besides, the fair trade regulator has directed the internet major to cease and desist from unfair business practices. 

A US Senate panel on Thursday approved of a bill to allow news organisations the ability to work together as they negotiate with Big Tech firms like Google and Facebook in order to gain more revenue, after criticism that these platforms have used content to attract traffic and ad revenue without fairly compensating publishers, many of which have st...

Big Tech firms were grilled by a parliamentary panel on Tuesday, where representatives of firms including Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and Uber were questioned on alleged anti-competitive practices. The panel, working under Union Minister Jayant Sinha is working on a report on developing a legal framework to ensure fair compet...

Some Pixel owners are seeing a fairly large update showing up on their devices that is upgrading them to Android 12 instead of Android 13. Google has finally revealed that it was an intended update and that it's not an error.

Reliance Industries and two of its compliance officers were fined for violating fair disclosure norms during Facebook's 2020 investment in its digital unit in 2020. SEBI said Reliance did not disclose the deal even after newspaper reports in March 2020 published price-sensitive details about the imminent investment that led to a spike in its shares...

Google, an Alphabet unit, has agreed to pay more than 300 publishers in EU countries for using their work, in compliance with EU copyright rules. News publishers, among Google's fiercest critics, have long urged governments to ensure online platforms pay fair remuneration for their content.

ICYMI, here's what happened at the Vanity Fair Oscar dinner

OnePlus isn’t forcing AI features on its users like Google and Samsung collectively want to promote in what appears to be a largely stagnated smartphone market that’s lately starved of innovation. While the OnePlus 12 will find its fair share of buyers thanks to its raw power and performance, it isn’t as exciting as OnePlus’s latest foldabl...

Japan's anti-trust watchdog said Monday it is investigating whether Google violated rules by asking smartphone manufacturers for preferential treatment.

US prosecutors have accused FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried of witness tampering and asked a federal judge to issue an order that would bar the former billionaire and other parties from making public statements likely to interfere with a fair trial. The prosecutors wrote to US District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Thursday referencing a New York Times artic...

The European Commission accused Google on Wednesday of abusing its dominance of the online ad market and recommended the US company sell part of its ad services to ensure fair competition.

The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said on Tuesday that Google bolstered its market dominance, and hurt local app market One Store's revenue and value as a platform, by requiring video game makers to exclusively release their titles on Google Play in exchange for providing in-app exposure between June 2016 and April 2018.

Google will have to pay the penalty of Rs 1,337.76 crore imposed by the fair trade regulator CCI, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal ruled today.

Fair trade regulator CCI on Thursday alleged that Google has created a digital data hegemony and called for a market space with "free, fair and open competition". Concluding the arguments of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) before the appellate tribunal NCLAT in the Google matter, Additional Solicitor General N Venkataraman said a market w...

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Wednesday refused to grant immediate relief to Google and directed the US firm to pay 10 percent of the Rs 1,337.76-crore penalty imposed on the tech giant by fair trade regulator CCI. The apellate tribunal has issued notices to the Competition Commission of India and the matter will be listed ...

The Competition Commission on Thursday imposed a penalty of Rs 1,337.76 crore on Google for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets in the android mobile device ecosystem. Besides, the fair trade regulator has directed the internet major to cease and desist from unfair business practices. 

A US Senate panel on Thursday approved of a bill to allow news organisations the ability to work together as they negotiate with Big Tech firms like Google and Facebook in order to gain more revenue, after criticism that these platforms have used content to attract traffic and ad revenue without fairly compensating publishers, many of which have st...

Big Tech firms were grilled by a parliamentary panel on Tuesday, where representatives of firms including Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and Uber were questioned on alleged anti-competitive practices. The panel, working under Union Minister Jayant Sinha is working on a report on developing a legal framework to ensure fair compet...

Some Pixel owners are seeing a fairly large update showing up on their devices that is upgrading them to Android 12 instead of Android 13. Google has finally revealed that it was an intended update and that it's not an error.

Reliance Industries and two of its compliance officers were fined for violating fair disclosure norms during Facebook's 2020 investment in its digital unit in 2020. SEBI said Reliance did not disclose the deal even after newspaper reports in March 2020 published price-sensitive details about the imminent investment that led to a spike in its shares...

Google, an Alphabet unit, has agreed to pay more than 300 publishers in EU countries for using their work, in compliance with EU copyright rules. News publishers, among Google's fiercest critics, have long urged governments to ensure online platforms pay fair remuneration for their content.

ICYMI, here's what happened at the Vanity Fair Oscar dinner