Alphabet’s Google brought its first witness to the stand on Wednesday in a landmark antitrust trial in the US. The witness, a Google executive, provided detailed insight into the company’s extensive efforts to maintain search quality. The Department of Justice had previously presented witnesses who highlighted Google’s significant payments to smartphone and wireless companies to …
Major media outlets, including The Post, are demanding transparency and access to exhibits in the landmark Google antitrust trial. They are asking for notice before closed-door sessions and urging the judge to make more of the evidence available to the public. The New York Times has filed a motion calling on Judge Amit Mehta to …
Google CEO Sundar Pichai once expressed concerns about the optics of Google being the exclusive search engine on Apple’s browser, according to emails revealed during the Justice Department’s antitrust trial. Pichai, in 2007 emails to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as other company leaders, suggested that Apple should offer customers the …
Xbox parent Microsoft successfully completed its $75 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a major video game company, on Friday, despite ongoing opposition from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This acquisition is the largest in the history of the video game industry. Earlier in the day, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) dropped its opposition, …
A subplot has emerged in the ongoing antitrust trial between Google and the federal government, involving one of Google’s prominent law firms. New York-based law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison is facing potential disqualification from the case due to ethics violations. The firm had previously represented several of Google’s accusers, including Yelp, Spotify, …
The judge overseeing the historic antitrust case against Google has unsealed closed-door testimony from two crucial witnesses, addressing criticism about the trial’s lack of transparency. This move aims to optimize the content for SEO while enhancing creativity and uniqueness, improving syntax and tone, increasing perplexity and burstiness, and retaining the HTML tags. Responding to concerns …
The role of Google’s multibillion-dollar default search engine deals in obtaining a dominant hold on the market was confirmed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during his testimony at the landmark antitrust trial. Nadella dismissed Google’s claim that default search engine settings are easily changeable, stating that “Defaults is the only thing that matters in changing …
Conservative groups are criticizing Google’s secretive relationship with Apple. US District Judge Amit Mehta, who is overseeing the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s landmark case against Google, has ruled that exhibits can be unsealed daily. However, Google and Apple have the right to contest what is unsealed, resulting in very little information being made public. …
The federal judge appointed by Obama overseeing the historic antitrust case against Google is receiving criticism for allowing the search giant to seal a significant portion of the testimony, which is a departure from his previous practice of open-courtroom policy during Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases. US District Judge Amit Mehta has agreed to Google’s …
Microsoft once contemplated taking a substantial loss on a deal in order to oust Google as the default search engine on Apple’s web browser, revealed a Microsoft executive during the ongoing Google antitrust trial on Thursday. The federal government claims that Google has established an unlawful monopoly by paying partner companies like Apple and AT&T …