The smart money is still on Europe taking the more adventurous and aggressive antitrust measures. But there’s no ignoring the shift on both sides of the Atlantic.
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The looming US antitrust investigation of Google is galvanising as many as a dozen companies to gather their longstanding complaints about the Alphabet unit and consider bringing them to the justice department.
Apple has announced a slew of new privacy features on Monday, including a new “sign in with Apple” capability.
This is the moment the US technology superpowers surely knew was coming: the US government is preparing to crawl all over Google to figure out whether it is an abusive monopolist. It and other tech giants should be quaking in their fleece vests.
Twitter is showing its users more ads. That’s a clumsy approach to boosting advertising revenue in an age of sophisticated micro-targeting, and it shows the weakness of Twitter’s business model.
Google’s Maps app will now warn South African drivers about speed limits and both permanent and mobile speed traps.
Tech giants, including Apple, Google and WhatsApp, have urged the UK’s GCHQ to abandon a proposal that would allow it to eavesdrop on encrypted chat conversations.
Few homegrown Google products have been as successful as Chrome. Now rivals are warning that the Web browser has become too powerful and that Google is abusing that dominance.
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