Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are teaming up to fight an Ohio company that wants them to pay for power grid upgrades that will be needed to support the Big Tech firms’ plans to install powered data centers intensive to power artificial intelligence technology. . American Electric Power Ohio, which serves cities such as Columbus … Read more
A growing number of Wall Street analysts have issued warnings of a possible breakup of Google as the Big Tech giant struggles to fend off a pair of major federal antitrust lawsuits that could destroy its business model. The Justice Department is seeking a forced sale of Google’s digital advertising business in an antitrust case … Read more
Google is in the process of deleting a large number of Gmail accounts. Here’s how to avoid losing yours. The internet giant started deleting accounts last December if they hadn’t been used for two years, after announcing updated inactive account policies in May. Any Google Account that hasn’t been used or signed in for at … Read more
Justice Department lawyers took aim at Google’s alleged monopoly over the digital advertising market on Monday in an antitrust case that poses a major threat to the Big Tech giant’s business model. Opening arguments in the closely watched trial began in a Virginia courtroom and drew a massive crowd of onlookers. U.S. District Judge Leonie … Read more
Google lost its bid to escape a $2.7 billion fine imposed by European Union regulators for illegally throttling rival online shopping services on Tuesday – the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the tech giant. The European Commission first imposed the fine in 2017 after determining that Google had broken the law by … Read more
Candace Owens claimed YouTube temporarily suspended her channel because “Zionists” flagged an interview she did with rapper Kanye West last month, during which he said: “Jewish people control the media.” Owens, who has been condemned by the Anti-Defamation League as a “political commentator who has come to embrace and promote anti-Semitic tropes,” was removed from … Read more
News Corp considered exiting Google’s ad products in 2017 — but decided against it after deciding it would cost the company at least $9 million in lost revenue, a former executive at The Post publisher testified Tuesday. . Google maintained a stranglehold on digital advertising despite offering tools that were “slow and slow” and ignoring … Read more
Don’t know something? Don’t “Google” – “TikTok” it. Kids these days are abandoning the trusty search engine in favor of social media and other unorthodox online search tools. Drawing on data from an April 2024 survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by Forbes Advisor and Talker Research, Bernstein reported that 45% of Gen Z users are … Read more
A Google executive boasted to colleagues that the goal for the company’s fledgling online advertising business in 2009 was to “crush” rivals in the digital ad market, according to evidence presented Wednesday in the federal antitrust trial targeting the tech titan . The Justice Department highlighted remarks made by David Rosenblatt, Google’s former president of … Read more