>"The lawsuit targets Google's advertising business and comes after reports that DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter had been cleared to work on Google."

“This lawsuit seeks to restore competition.”

"US states accuse Google of unfairly abusing monopolies to dominate new tech like voice assistants."

Google has suffered a worldwide outage, with failures reported across the company’s services, including Gmail, Google Calendar and _...Read More_

>"Google services went dark on Monday for users around the world, with its most popular services, including Gmail, Google Drive and YouTube _...Read More_

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"Schmidt is effectively buying a passport that he can use to enter the European Union."

Such a quality article with strong, clear ideas. This part really struck me: “Decomputerization doesn’t mean no computers. It means that not all spheres of life should be rendered into data and computed upon. Ubiquitous “smartness” largely _...Read More_

In a larger sense, Google found itself and its culture deeply maladapted to a new set of political, social, and business imperatives. To invent products like Gmail, Earth, and Translate, you need coddled geniuses free to let their minds run _...Read More_

Four of the seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company, including two women who claimed Google retaliated against them for their internal activism. Whittaker claimed Google had _...Read More_

“It isn’t inherently awful that YouTube uses AI to recommend video for you, because if the AI is well tuned it can help you get what you want. This would be amazing,..But the problem is that the AI isn’t built to help you get what you want _...Read More_

Android isn’t as open source as it seems... “While Android — the stripped down, open-source operating system — may be available to everyone, all of the Google pieces that make most Android phones worthwhile are locked behind a partner _...Read More_

"The potential disparity between the value of personal data and what users receive in return creates space for governments to seek reimbursement on society’s behalf." -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg, "This Is the Best Way to Tax Google and _...Read More_