Apple’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings have been released,   Apple’s revenues of $46.9 billion are in lne with the modest expectations of analysts; earnings per share of $1.67 beat expectations.  However, the company has reported their first YoY revenue decline since the iPhone was first introduced. Revenues were off nearly $9 billion vs. last year.  The stock […]

There is a case that is going on right now that involves Yelp and a “default judgment” against someone (defendant bird) who wrote up a critical Yelp review about a San Francisco attorney (plaintiff Dawn Hassell )that could dramatically impact the online review economy if the decision is allowed to stand.  A number of major companies, […]

It’s been reported by Yahoo  some hit and miss earnings today for Q2 of 2016. According to the company, they earned around $1.31 billion, which is up from $1.24 billion last year, which is also ahead of the expected $1.08 billion.  The earnings per share came in at nine cents, which was below the expected 10 cents […]

For the longest time, it seems that Google has been a high profile target of critics claiming that the company “encourages piracy.”  Although this isn’t a uniformly help sentiment among everyone, as well as Google constantly disputing it, the accusation has been voiced by a number of people in the music and motion picture industries. Google […]

Unsurprisingly, the European Commission (EC) has filed a third “Statement of Objections” against Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. on Thursday.  Not only that, the antitrust regulator even amended charges associated with initial shopping search case.  It looks like Google is now dealing with three different active antitrust cases in Europe, all at the same time. The […]

There is a class-action lawsuit saying that there is illegal tracking of kids’ web browsing and video-view habits.  Google has been released from the action by the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals  For Google, this is good news, as it’s one less legal issue they have do deal with, but Viacom, the owner of Nickelodeon and associated […]

A number of big names have announced a “Code of Conduct” governing “illegal hate speech” online in the EU.  These names are: The European Commission Facebook Google (YouTube Twitter Microsoft The various involved entities issued a statement that explained the new framework earlier today: In order to prevent the spread of illegal hate speech, it is essential […]

The Google offices in Paris had some some unexpected company on the morning of May 24th.  According to the BBC, the offices were “raided” by 100 tax officials.  The company has been accused of owing France almost $1.8 billion in unpaid taxes. France, among other European countries, are trying to collect “back taxes” from Google […]

In a report by The Daily Telegraph, Google is on the cusp of being hit with a “record-breaking” antitrust fine by the European Commission.  It apparently will be“in the region of €3 billion” ($3.39 billion).  Ouch. The Daily Telegraph, which cites sources familiar with the European Commission’s proceedings, says that the penalty is coming “within weeks.”  It’s […]

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 […]