Topic: market dominance
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UK regulator challenges Google's search dominance
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has designated Google as having "strategic market status," recognizing its substantial market power in general search and search advertising, which subjects it to increased regulatory oversight. This designation results from the UK's new digital competit...
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FTC Sues Zillow Over $100 Million Redfin Deal
The FTC is suing Zillow and Redfin, alleging their partnership illegally reduced competition in the online rental market by eliminating Redfin as a rival, which could raise costs and limit choices. The agreement involved Zillow paying Redfin $100 million to syndicate rental ads, consolidating lis...
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OpenAI Mocks Musk's Math in iPhone AI Lawsuit
OpenAI and Apple have jointly moved to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit from Elon Musk's xAI, arguing the claims lack factual basis and rely on speculation. Musk alleges that integrating ChatGPT into iPhone features gives OpenAI privileged access to user prompts, unfairly boosting its AI dominance wi...
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Microsoft 365: The Biggest Cybersecurity Risk You're Ignoring
Microsoft 365's widespread adoption and integration of services like Outlook and Teams make it a prime target for cyberattacks, offering a broad attack surface due to its interconnected ecosystem. The platform's built-in backup and recovery features are often insufficient, potentially preserving ...
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US Government Renews Push to Break Up Google
The US government is pursuing a breakup of Google's ad tech empire, arguing it illegally dominates digital advertising markets and requires structural changes to restore competition. A federal trial is underway to determine remedies, with the DOJ pushing for Google to sell its AdX exchange and op...
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Google's Search Dominance: 210x Larger Than ChatGPT
Google maintains an overwhelming lead in search volume, processing around 14 billion searches daily, which far exceeds the estimated 66 million search-like queries handled by ChatGPT. Despite the buzz around AI tools, AI-powered search currently accounts for less than one percent of website refer...
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Egypt's Mobile Wallet Transactions Soar 80% to Record EGP 943 Billion in Q2 2025
Egypt's mobile wallet sector saw significant growth, with transaction volume rising 80% year-on-year to 718 million and value increasing 72% to EGP 943 billion in Q2 2025. Vodafone Cash led the market with 55% of all wallets and dominated transaction volume and value, while peer-to-peer transfers...
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PubMatic Sues Google for Alleged Monopoly Violations
PubMatic has filed a major lawsuit against Google, accusing it of maintaining an illegal monopoly in the ad technology sector and seeking billions in damages. This legal action follows a federal judge's ruling that Google illegally monopolized ad exchanges and ad servers, with a separate trial to...
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Europe Fines Google €2.95B for Adtech Monopoly Despite Trump Threats
The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion for anti-competitive behavior in its advertising technology, favoring its own services like Google Ad Exchange since at least 2014. Google must stop these practices and submit a compliance plan within 60 days, with the EU warning of further a...
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Google in Talks with Trump Lawyers Over Deplatforming Lawsuit
Google faces significant antitrust litigation, with recent court decisions favoring the Justice Department and potential remedies that may require operational changes or divestiture of Chrome. Internal issues at the DOJ's Antitrust Division have sparked concerns about the agency's vulnerability t...
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Microsoft Avoids EU Fine After Unbundling Teams from Office
Microsoft has resolved an EU antitrust investigation by agreeing to separate its Teams application from Office products, avoiding significant fines. The investigation was initiated after a complaint from Slack, which accused Microsoft of using its market dominance to unfairly promote Teams by bun...
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US v. Google: Key Updates from the Antitrust Trial
On August 5, 2024, a U.S. judge ruled Google a monopolist in violation of antitrust law, marking a pivotal moment in a major tech case. The court rejected proposals to break up Google but banned exclusive agreements while allowing deals like its default search arrangement with Apple to continue. ...
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EU Investigates SAP for Antitrust Violations in Software Support
The European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation into SAP's software support services, examining whether the company abuses its dominant market position to impose restrictive contract terms in violation of EU competition law. Investigators are focusing on four practices, including ...
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Silicon Valley's Most Powerful Alliance Just Got Stronger
The court ruling allows Google to continue its default search payments to Apple, preserving a key revenue stream and reinforcing their long-standing partnership. Judge Mehta acknowledged the arrangement benefits Google but argued ending it could harm Apple and innovation, noting emerging AI compe...
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Are You Buying Too Many Games? Most Gamers Don't
The majority of U.S. gamers (63%) purchase two or fewer new games per year, with a small group of "hyper enthusiast" players driving sales for non-free-to-play titles. This purchasing pattern challenges the industry, as smaller studios struggle for visibility against blockbuster games and free-to...
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AI Psychosis Victims Plead for FTC Intervention
A rising number of individuals are experiencing severe psychological distress from AI chatbot interactions, leading to calls for regulatory oversight, including a case where ChatGPT advised a user to stop medication and view parents as a threat. WIRED obtained about 200 complaints about ChatGPT, ...
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Web Developers Revolt Against Google's AI Overviews
Web developers and publishers are challenging Google's AI Overviews, which they argue reduce traffic and revenue by providing direct answers in search results, prompting infrastructure provider Cloudflare to update robots.txt files to pressure Google into changing its content crawling practices. ...
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Why It's So Hard to Break Up With Google
Google is defending its integrated ad technology business in court, arguing that a government-ordered breakup would be as complex as a mission to Mars and could harm customers and employees. The Justice Department contends that forcing Google to sell parts of its ad tech operations is necessary t...
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Aura's First Color E Ink Frame Is Cordless
Aura has launched the first cordless digital photo frame with a color E Ink display, offering months of battery life and a wire-free way to showcase photos, though it comes with a premium price of $499. The frame uses E Ink Spectra 6 technology to display six colors, conserves power with features...
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