Testimony from Pandu Nayak in the DOJ Antitrust Trialrecently revealed the existence of the Glue and NavBoost ranking systems. NavBoost is a system that employs click-driven measures to boost, demote, or otherwise reinforce a ranking in Web Search. Nayak indicated that Navboost has been around...
That ended the biggest tech antitrust trial since the US took on Microsoft in the 1990s — possibly aside from the government’santitrust case targeting Google’s ad business— but it’s also just the start of the process. Now, lawyers for Google and the Department of Justice are arguing ...
And, finally, why does this trial matter for your business? That’s what this week’s episode of Thinks Out Loud is all about. Want to learn more? Here are the show notes for you.Google Loses its Antitrust Case: Why That Matters for Your Business (Thinks Out Loud Episode 429) — ...
The procedure for this choice is based on an agreement between Microsoft and the antitrust authorities of the European Union, which was concluded in 2009, two years after Opera Software officially complained about unfair competition from Microsoft. Mindful of this, it is not surprising that Google...
“It is our position that we would very much like to continue discussions on a parallel track” to the pretrial schedule, said Michael Boni, a lawyer for the authors. The representative for the publishers, Bruce Keller, went further, saying that he hoped that the pretrial schedule would ...
(Reuters) -"Fortnite" maker Epic Games has prevailed in its high-profile antitrust trial over Alphabet's Google, which alleged the Play app store operated as an illegal monopoly, in a ruling that if it holds could upend the entire app store economy. ...
The Fortnite lawsuit is back — the Epic v. Google trial finally kicks off November 6th, with Epic Games dragging Google into court to defend its Google Play app store against antitrust claims.
which means every single competent executive in America in any firm with market power is going to get a memo from their antitrust or general counsel on what they can and can’t do going forward. And they will likely begin changing their behaviour to avoid being brought to court for monopoli...
Epic argued that the feature undermines the jury’s unanimous decision in Epic v. Google, that “Google entered into one or more agreements that unreasonably restrained trade in a relevant antitrust market,” including “Agreements with OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) that sell mobile device...
Consolidation of the twoSkyhook v. Googlecases was ordered more than two weeks ago, but became discoverable only now because the parties filed a stipulation regarding the schedule for the consolidated case, which references at the start the oral order to consolidate: ...