A report was released on May 9 on Gizmodo that said Facebook’s Trending Topics team was suppressing conservative news stories from appearing on the influential sidebar of the social network. In this report, content that regards the likes of Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, murdered Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, Scott Walker and other conservative issues are not being […]
With great fanfare, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was hired in July 2012. At the time, there was a great number of people who thought that Mayer face a “daunting challenge” in trying to get Yahoo on the right path. Of course, since she became CEO, Mayer has faced both successes and failures, and we couldn’t […]
Something that I found rather nice, in an age where companies seem to always play cutthroat with each other, Google and Microsoft have agreed to play nice with each other. The companies have decided to stop filing complaints about one another with regulators around the world. In a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report, this was prompted […]
It comes as no surprise, but Google has finally been hit with a formal “Statement of Objections” (antitrust charges) by the European Commission in regards to the Android OS and related practices. The focus of the charges are the requirement that handset makers pre-install selected Google apps, like Chrome, in exchange for access to the Google […]
The Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft and Amazon are in talks to possibly take a minority stake in HERE Maps, who is owned by Audi, BMW and Daimler, earlier this week. There was a question of how aggressively HERE would be competing in the market ever since it was sold to the German consortium for just […]
Back in February of 2015, Yandex, the top Russian search engine asked the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) to initiate an antitrust investigation into Google’s control over the Android platform. According to Yandex, Google was given an unfair advantage through the required pre-installation of Google apps on Android handsets in Russia. In September […]
A court in Düsseldorf ruled yesterday that German websites that use Facebook buttons could not transfer data to the company without user consent, along with the understanding that that’s what they were doing. One of the businesses found in violation of German data protection law was clothing retailer Peek & Cloppenburg, who had featured the Like button […]
In a report by Bloomberg, it is said that the European Commission (EC) is about to file an antitrust complaint over the Android operating system. The outlet is citing “three people familiar with the probe.” Despite this news, Bloomberg is saying that a final decision hasn’t been made yet. The Android-OEM contracts and app-install requirements have […]
Facebook announced their new montage-video product for small businesses, Your Business Story. It was mentioned in the same post that the company now has three million advertisers. So, what is Your Business Story? In shot, it is a video production tool that allows local businesses to combine still images and music to quickly create videos: To […]
On January 22, a Re/Code report appeared stating that Microsoft has pulled financial support from FairSearch, which is an anti-Google “watchdog” or lobbying group that has been a player in advancing European antitrust moves against the company. According to the FairSearch site, here is a list of all the current members: Admarketplace.com Allegro Buscapé Expedia Foundem Nokia Oracle Trip […]