Google is under growing pressure to pay for information that, for two decades, the search provider snipped from the Web – and made a mint from – without paying a penny.
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The architect of Australia’s laws forcing Google and Facebook to pay media companies for content claimed victory on Wednesday though critics said last-minute changes favoured Big Tech.
Facebook’s dramatic move to block Australian news-sharing has escalated a broader battle against global regulation. That gambit looks likely to backfire.
When prospectors made what was the biggest oil discovery in history at Texas’s Spindletop well in 1901, the world’s premier oil monopolist was absent from the scene.
Epic Games added a new front to its legal war against Apple by filing a complaint with European Union regulators over the iPhone maker’s App Store rules.
The party will request that Facebook be summoned to appear in parliament to face questions about its role in “misinformation” and the protection of digital privacy of South African users.
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Google last month said it would likely pull its core search function from Australia if the government pushes ahead with a plan to require it to pay media companies an indeterminate fee for news snippets.
Microsoft is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday.
Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing services grew 50%, the second quarter of acceleration in a business where the global pandemic benefited its investment on working and learning from home.