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  • Sundar PichaiTech

    Fortnite’s lawsuit against Google heads for trial with Sundar Pichai due to take the stand

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • 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)Tech

    Google’s antitrust problems grow as a new trial begins, this one targeting its Play Store

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • The Google sign is shown over an entrance to the company’s new building in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. If government regulators prevail in the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century, it’s likely to unleash drastic changes designed to undermining the dominance of the Google search engine that defines the internet for billions of people. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)Tech

    How a Google loss in its antitrust trial would affect your searches on the internet

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 22: People wait in line to purchase new Apple iPhone 15 models at the Apple The Grove store on the phone’s worldwide release day on September 22, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. The four new iPhone handsets feature a titanium frame, 48 megapixel main camera, and a USB-C charging cable. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Tech

    Your next iPhone might be pricier after the Google antitrust trial: ‘Google has essentially been subsidizing the cost of devices’

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The iPhone 15 phones are shown during an announcement of new products on the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Apple on Saturday, Sept. 30, blamed a software bug some other issues tied to popular apps such as Instagram and Uber for causing its recently released iPhone 15 models to overheat and sparking complaints about being too hot to handle. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)Tech

    Your iPhone 15 is getting too hot because of a software bug tied to apps like Instagram and Uber, says Apple

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • File – Netflix’s first CEO, Marc Randolph, poses outside the Santa Cruz, California, post office in May, 2022, where he had mailed a Patsy Cline CD to the company’s co-founder Reed Hastings, to test whether a disc could make it through the mail. The Netflix DVD-by-service will mail out its final discs Friday from its five remaining distribution centers, ending its 25-year history. (AP Photo/Mike Liedtke, File)Success

    Netflix cofounder calls DVD-by-mail service—now ending—‘unsung booster rocket’ that sent company into orbit

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • Gabriel WeinbergTech

    The founder of a main Google rival says there’s such a stranglehold over search that it only has 2.5% of the market

    By Paul Wiseman, Michael Liedtke, and others
  • Gabriel Weinberg, founder and chief executive officer of DuckDuckGo Inc., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. The hearing comes amid building bipartisan support for increased tech regulation in the U.S. and is taking place just days after Massachusetts Senator and 2020 Democratic hopeful Elizabeth Warren called on the government to break up big tech companies like Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    DuckDuckGo CEO says Google kills competition through phone deals that make it hard for users to switch search engines: ‘It’s too many steps’

    By Paul Wiseman, Michael Liedtke, and others
  • FILE – Various Google logos are displayed on a Google search, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, in New York. On Tuesday, Sept. 19, Google announced that it is introducing its artificially intelligent chatbot, Bard, to other members of its digital family, including Gmail, Maps and YouTube, as part of the next step in its effort to ward off threats posed by similar technology run by Open AI and Microsoft. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)Tech

    Google is adding Bard to Gmail, Maps and YouTube in fight with OpenAI and MIcrosoft for AI dominance

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • John SchmidtleinTech

    ‘Google pays more than $10 billion per year for these privileged positions’: The government throws the book at big tech in court

    By Paul Wiseman, Michael Liedtke, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 12: Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, arrives at federal court on September 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. Google will defend its default-search deals in an antitrust trial against the U.S. Justice Department which begins today. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)Tech

    The biggest government lawsuit since Microsoft begins today with internet search at stake

    By Paul Wiseman, Michael Liedtke, and others
  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden on May 23, 2023. (Photo by Claudio BRESCIANI / various sources / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by CLAUDIO BRESCIANI/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    Trial over Google’s search dominance is the federal government’s biggest antitrust case since going after Microsoft 25 years ago

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • Ted SarandosFinance

    Netflix adds most subscribers since 2020 surge but investors fret over ‘competitive battle’ brewing in Hollywood labor strife

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • The logo for Microsoft, and a scene from Activision “Call of Duty – Modern Warfare,” are shown in this photo, in New York, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Microsoft on Thursday will try to gain clearance to complete a $69 billion takeover of video game maker Activision Blizzard in a legal showdown with U.S. regulators that will reshape a pastime that’s bigger than the movie and music industries combined. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Tech

    Microsoft and the FTC face off in court to determine whether the $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard can go forward now

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
  • Apple’s new Vision Pro virtual reality headset is displayed during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, on June 5, 2023. Apple on Monday unveiled its first-ever virtual reality headset challenging Facebook-owner Meta in a market that has yet to tempt users beyond videogamers and tech geeks. The release was the most significant product launch by the iconic iPhone maker since it unveiled the Apple Watch in 2015. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    What it’s like wearing Apple’s buzzy Vision Pro goggles and venturing into the weird and isolating world of virtual reality

    By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press