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Google says potential EU break-up order is not proportionate
FILE PHOTO: An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo
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Media got $100-million from Google, but can they also get $100-million from Meta?
Jonah Prousky
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Google pushes for antitrust action against Microsoft in U.K. cloud market
FILE PHOTO: An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo
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Meta launches AI-based video editing tools
From left; moderator Laurene Powell-Jobs, Founder and Chair, Emerson Collective, Chris Cox, CPO, Meta, James Manyika, SVP of Research, Technology & Society, Google, and Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, participate in a discussion entitled "Charting the Path Forward: The Future of Artificial Intelligence" during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Alphabet CEO, in Play store trial, acknowledges some materials not retained
FILE - Google and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. Google on Monday, Nov. 6, will try to protect a lucrative piece of its internet empire at the same time it’s still entangled in the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century. The latest threat will unfold in a San Francisco federal court, where a 10-person jury will decide whether Google's digital payment processing system in the Play Store that distributes apps for phones running on its Android software has been illegally driving up prices for consumers and developers. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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YouTube creators will soon have to disclose use of generative AI in videos or risk suspension
(FILES) An exterior view of the YouTube Space in Los Angeles, California, November 21, 2019. YouTube on November 2, 2023, said it tweaked its recommendation system in the United States to prevent teens from bingeing on videos idealizing certain body types. The move comes about a week after dozens of US states accused Facebook and Instagram owner Meta of profiting "from children's pain," damaging their mental health and misleading people about the safety of its platforms. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
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Microsoft and Google will not challenge EU gatekeeper status
FILE PHOTO: European flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman//File Photo
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Heritage Minister says quick action needed to enact Online Streaming Act
Pascale St-Onge, Canada's minister of Canadian Heritage, speaks alongside Frederic Vanasse, general manager and editor of The Canadian Press french services, during the MINDS International conference in Toronto, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
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Toronto’s public library system will remain down until January 2024. Here’s which services are and aren’t working
Books sit on a shelf at an Etobicoke library, in Toronto, Sunday, April 16, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
technology
B.C. quantum computer maker Photonic emerges from ‘stealth mode’ with $100-million and Microsoft deal
Founder and chief quantum officer, Stephanie Simmons, poses for a photograph at the Photonic Inc. lab in Coquitlam, B.C, on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. Tijana Martin/ The Globe and Mail
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Ottawa’s lack of support for Montreal bid for global Internet conference is a win for autocracy
Justin Ling
technology
Former Meta engineering leader testifies before U.S. Congress on Instagram’s harms to teens
File - The Instagram logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, Oct. 14, 2022. Former Meta engineer Arturo Bejar is expected to testify before Congress on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, about social media and the teen mental health crisis, hoping to shed more light on how Meta executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, knew about the harms Instagram was causing and chose not to do anything about it. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
technology
Google’s antitrust headaches compound with another trial, this one targeting its Play Store
FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured at Google's European Engineering Center in Zurich, Switzerland July 19, 2018 REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo
international business
The Associated Press’ news website hit by apparent denial-of-service attack
Cyber crime hacker.Unknown identity of cyber criminal .
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Alphabet, Match settle Google Play antitrust claims before U.S. trial
FILE PHOTO: Fortnite game installing on Android operating system is seen in this illustration taken, May 2, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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CEO Sundar Pichai defends paying Apple, others to make Google default search engine on devices
Google and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Amazon rallies on cloud recovery as it chases Microsoft for AI business
In this Sept. 4, 2018, file photo a Nasdaq employee monitors market activity in New York.
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Amazon predicts bright holiday season, cloud stabilizing
(FILES)In this file photo taken on September 20, 2023 an attendee looks on during a media tour of the new Amazon headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Online retail colossus Amazon on October 26, 2023 reported profit of $9.9 billion in the recently ended quarter on growing sales and more efficient deliveries. Sales reached $143.1 billion in the recently ended quarter, up 13 percent from the same period last year, according to Amazon. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Google begins antitrust defence by poking fun at its status among youth
FILE - A Google sign hangs over an entrance to the company's new building, Sept. 6, 2023, in New York. On Thursday, Oct. 26, Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's senior vice president for knowledge and information products, testified that the company's success is precarious and said its leadership fears their product could slide into irrelevance with younger internet users. Raghavan testified for the tech giant as it defends itself in the biggest antitrust trial in the last 25 years. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)
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Amazon discloses it has more than 181 million users in EU in first store transparency report
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 20, 2023, the Amazon logo is seen on a new warehouse that is part of mobile robotic fulfilment systems also known as 'Amazon robotics', in Bretigny-sur-Orge, some 30 kms south of Paris. Amazon is set to release their earnings report for the third quarter on Thursday. (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP) (Photo by PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images)