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 […]

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 […]

Google has been given more time to respond to the antitrust charges being thrown at them by the EU, with the deadline now being pushed from July 7 to August 17, 2015. The news comes from a report on Reuters, where Google’s spokesman All Verney said that the EU has given in to Google’s request for […]

There is a report from the Wall Street Journal that tells of researchers from Columbia University and Harvard Business School who claim that Google is delivering a “degraded version of its search engine,” which outranks its own services over more relevant results for local searches on restaurants and hotels. In a study sponsored by Yelp (who is one […]