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Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games
12Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games

Updated Dec. 11, 2023 11:35 pm ETGoogle lost an antitrust case over the market power of its app store on Monday, a blow to the search giant as it faces other legal challenges to its search dominance and ad tech business.Videogame maker Epic Games sued the search giant in 2020, alleging it used its dominant position to squeeze excess profits from app developers. The San Francisco jury reached a unanimous verdict after deliberating for less than four hours. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games
12Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games

Updated Dec. 11, 2023 11:35 pm ETGoogle lost an antitrust case over the market power of its app store on Monday, a blow to the search giant as it faces other legal challenges to its search dominance and ad tech business.Videogame maker Epic Games sued the search giant in 2020, alleging it used its dominant position to squeeze excess profits from app developers. The San Francisco jury reached a unanimous verdict after deliberating for less than four hours. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Top Features in Apple’s iOS 17 and iPadOS 17: Compatible Devices, Updates
11Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

Top Features in Apple’s iOS 17 and iPadOS 17: Compatible Devices, Updates

You're now able to check in with a friend or family member when you arrive at a destination. If you dillydally for some reason on the way to this destination, the system will try to check in with you, and if you don't respond, it will share location data, battery level, and cell service status with your loved one. Apple says this data is end-to-end encrypted. You can press the “+” sign to find this feature in an iMessage conversation, then tap More until you see Check In.When someone shares their location with you in iMessage, you'll now be able to see this directly in the conversation without having to leave the app. If they send an audio message, you'll see the transcription immediately under it, which is handy if you can't listen to it immediately.As for FaceTime, you can now leave a v...
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TikTok to Invest More Than $1.5 Billion in GoTo to Restart Indonesia E-Commerce Business
11Dec By adminNo Comments
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TikTok to Invest More Than $1.5 Billion in GoTo to Restart Indonesia E-Commerce Business

Updated Dec. 11, 2023 4:29 am ETBytedance’s TikTok will invest more than $1.5 billion in a deal with GoTo Group that will allow the Chinese video-sharing app to resume retail operations in Indonesia, one of its most successful e-commerce markets.The companies said Monday that TikTok Shop Indonesia and GoTo’s Tokopedia e-commerce platform will be combined under the existing Tokopedia entity, with TikTok taking a 75% controlling stake.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Meta Starts Fully Encrypting Messages on Facebook and Messenger App
9Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

Meta Starts Fully Encrypting Messages on Facebook and Messenger App

Updated Dec. 6, 2023 10:42 pm ETMeta Platforms said it has started fully encrypting messages on Facebook by default, moving ahead with a privacy measure that government officials and others have warned could hide illegal activity by child predators and other criminals.The social-media giant starting this week is automatically shifting Facebook users to so-called end-to-end encryption for their messages on that platform and its connected Messenger app, it said in a blog post Wednesday.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Broadcom’s Software Makeover Doesn’t Fully Mask Chip Swings
8Dec By adminNo Comments
Money

Broadcom’s Software Makeover Doesn’t Fully Mask Chip Swings

Broadcom Chief Executive Hock Tan isn’t someone who finds blowing money appetizing. But that $40,000 dinner seems to have gone down well. That was the reported cost for Tan to sit at the table of Chinese President Xi Jinping during a dinner at last month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in San Francisco. It is a notable sum for an executive known for running one of the most tightfisted chip companies in the business. Broadcom spends just 4% of its annual revenue on sales and marketing—compared with 11% on average by companies on the PHLX Semiconductor Index.  Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Draws Scrutiny From U.K. Regulator
8Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Draws Scrutiny From U.K. Regulator

Updated Dec. 8, 2023 12:15 pm ETU.K. regulators said they are examining Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI, marking a first push by one of the world’s most influential competition authorities to scrutinize the relationship between the tech giant and the artificial-intelligence company behind ChatGPT.Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority said Friday that it is seeking feedback on whether the partnership should be considered a de facto merger, in an initial step that could lead to a formal investigation.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Actors Recorded Videos for ‘Vladimir.’ It Turned Into Russian Propaganda.
7Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Actors Recorded Videos for ‘Vladimir.’ It Turned Into Russian Propaganda.

Internet propagandists aligned with Russia have duped at least seven Western celebrities, including Elijah Wood and Priscilla Presley, into recording short videos to support its online information war against Ukraine, according to new security research by Microsoft.The celebrities look like they were asked to offer words of encouragement—apparently via the Cameo app—to someone named “Vladimir” who appears to be struggling with substance abuse, Microsoft said. Instead, these messages were edited, sometimes dressed up with emojis, links and the logos of media outlets and then shared online by the Russia-aligned trolls, the company said. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Actors Recorded Videos for ‘Vladimir.’ It Turned Into Russian Propaganda.
7Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

Actors Recorded Videos for ‘Vladimir.’ It Turned Into Russian Propaganda.

Internet propagandists aligned with Russia have duped at least seven Western celebrities, including Elijah Wood and Priscilla Presley, into recording short videos to support its online information war against Ukraine, according to new security research by Microsoft.The celebrities look like they were asked to offer words of encouragement—apparently via the Cameo app—to someone named “Vladimir” who appears to be struggling with substance abuse, Microsoft said. Instead, these messages were edited, sometimes dressed up with emojis, links and the logos of media outlets and then shared online by the Russia-aligned trolls, the company said. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Tech’s New Normal: Microcuts Over Growth at All Costs
5Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

Tech’s New Normal: Microcuts Over Growth at All Costs

The tech industry has largely recovered from the downturn, but Silicon Valley learned a long-lasting lesson: how to do more with less. Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta Platforms have been cutting dozens or a few hundred employees at a time as executives keep tight controls on costs, even as their businesses and stock prices have rebounded sharply. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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