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DOJ Supports Antitrust Bill Targeting Big Tech - Read Why: WSJ

The Justice Department supported American Innovation and Choice Online Act and similar legislation banning large digital platforms from favoring their products and services over competitors, the Wall Street Journal reports. The DOJ saw the rise of dominant platforms like Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google jeopardizing open markets and competition. Amazon, Google, Apple…

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This AI Startup Roped In Big Tech Executives From Google, Meta As Founding Members

LinkedIn (NASDAQ:MSFT) founder Reid Hoffman and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman poached artificial intelligence gurus from Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, and Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) for their AI startup, Inflection, CNBC reports. Inflection' looked to develop AI software products that enabled hassle-free communication between humans and computers. Heinrich Kuttler quit his research engineering manager role at…

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Evercore Lists Amazon's USPs - Shipping Elasticity, Brand Advertising, Grocery Delivery, Cheap Valuation

Analysts led by Mark Mahaney at Evercore ISI reiterated their Outperform rating on Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) with a target price on the stock of $4,300, implying more than 30% upside. Amazon remains the investment bank advisory group's top mega-cap long holding. Mahaney and his team highlight four underappreciated elements of the company. Firstly, Amazon's recent…

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Alphabet's Drone Division Roped In New CFO: Bloomberg

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Wing unit roped in Shannon Nash as CFO as it looked to expand its drone-delivery operations, Bloomberg reports. Nash previously served as the CFO of Reputation.com Inc. Wing recently promoted its CTO, Adam Woodworth, as the CEO. In the first two months of 2022, it completed over 30,000…

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After US, Big Tech Sees More Trouble From EU: Reuters

Strict new rules targeting the U.S. tech giants will likely be effective in October, Reuters reports based on EU antitrust chief. In 2021, Margrethe Vestager proposed a list of dos and don'ts for Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) unit Google and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) under the Digital Markets Act. Also Read: US Senate Votes…

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Google Tries Its Luck At Health Monitoring From Home Like Apple

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google looked to test whether capturing heart sounds and eyeball images via smartphones could help people identify elevated risk issues at home. Google investigated whether the smartphone's built-in microphone could detect heartbeats and murmurs when placed over the chest to enable early detection of heart valve disorders, the company…

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Google Fielded Pay-Related Questions At Recent Meet

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google leaders faced a storm of criticism from employees on issues related to compensation, CNBC reports. Google defended the company's competitiveness at a recent all-hands meeting while conceding that the performance review process could change. Recently, Google's internal survey had reflected growing dissatisfaction with pay packages. Its peer Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), looked…

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Google Submits Fitbit's Passive Heart Rate Monitoring Feature For FDA Approval

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) has submitted data to the FDA

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Read How Analysts Reacted To Google's Pact With Spotify

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google decided to allow Spotify Technology SA (NYSE:SPOT) and other app developers to offer users an alternative third-party payment option alongside Google Play's option. KeyBanc analyst Justin Patterson saw the move as a win for digital content providers. He viewed alternative payment options as a happy compromise that calmed regulators and…

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Analyzing Google - Class A's Short Interest

Alphabet Inc - Class A's (NASDAQ:GOOGL) short percent of float has fallen 7.89% since its last report. The company recently reported that it has 2.09 million shares sold short, which is 0.7% of all regular shares that are available for trading.

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Spotify And Google? Why SPOT Shares Are Rising After Hours

Spotify Technology SA (NYSE: SPOT) shares are trading higher in Wednesday's after-hours session after Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL

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YouTube Takes On Streaming, TV With Expanded Selection Of Free Programming

Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube online video platform is taking aim at streaming services and over-the-air television by making nearly 4,000 episodes of popular television series and s

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Aspiring Quantum Computing Firm Sandbox AQ Spun Off From Alphabet

Quantum computing aspiring firm Sandbox AQ spun off from Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL), procured "nine figures" of funding, and signed several clients for its cybersecurity services, Reuters reports. Sandbox's investors include Schmidt, Breyer Capital, T. Rowe Price funds, and Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE:CRM) founder Marc Benioff's TIME Ventures. Sandbox would use cloud computing from Google Cloud and others.…

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Google Settles Year Long Lawsuit With Current, Former Employees

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google settled with six current and former employees in a 2021 case represented by the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, Reuters reports. The terms of the settlement remained undisclosed. The case concerned Google's actions against workers who were among a larger group protesting its cloud technology relationship with…

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US DOJ Accuses Google Of Misusing Legal Privilege To Hide Sensitive Emails: WSJ

The U.S. Justice Department alleged Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google improperly invoked the legal privilege to shield sensitive internal communications for years, the Wall Street Journal reports from U.S. district court filing. The DOJ wanted Google to turn over internal emails that it had withheld or censored in the antitrust case filed against it by state…

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Google Sister Waymo Says Ready To Roll Out Fully Driverless Service in San Francisco

Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) self-driving subsidiary Waymo said on Monday it is ready to roll out fully driverless services in San Francisco without a “specialist

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Match Unveils New Dating App - This Time For 'Single Parents'

Online dating provider Match Group Inc (NASDAQ:MTCH) launched its newest dating app, Stir, to connect single parents. Stir's scheduling feature help members display their "me time" with matches to help coordinate calendars. Stir aims to tap the 20 million single parents in the U.S. underserved on mainstream dating apps. The company has a vast…

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Russia Tells Google to Stop Spreading Threats against Russians on YouTube

Russia on Friday demanded that Alphabet Inc's Google stop spreading what it called threats against Russian citizens on its YouTube video-sharing platform, a move that could presage an outright block of the service on Russian territory. Google representatives in Russia did not respond to an emailed request for comment.

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Google Launches Private Subsea Cable Connecting Africa With Europe

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google launched Equiano, its new private subsea cable that would connect Africa with Europe. Equiano will start in western Europe and run along the West Coast of Africa, between Portugal and South Africa, with branching units to extend connectivity to additional African countries. The new cable will help Togo…

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Google Shares Findings On Ransomware Hacker Group

Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google detected a group of ransomware hackers trying to breach companies in 2021, exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows. The group sent over 5,000 malicious emails a day to up to 650 global organizations, often leveraging a flaw in MSHTML. Microsoft issued a security fix for the Windows vulnerability…

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Tesla Axed Former Autopilot Employee - Read Why

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) terminated a former Autopilot employee who shared video reviews of the company's Full Self Driving Beta system, CNBC reports. John Bernal had shared candid video reviews on his Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube channel, AI Addict, showing how the company's FSD Beta system worked in different locations around Silicon Valley. Before…

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How Is The Market Feeling About Alphabet Inc - Class C Capital Stock?

Alphabet Inc - Class C Capital Stock's (NASDAQ:GOOG) short percent of float has risen 19.61% since its last report. The company recently reported that it has 1.68 million shares sold short, which is 0.61% of all regular shares that are available for trading.

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Google Scores Poorly On Pay, Promotion As Per Internal Survey: CNBC

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google's internal survey disclosed an unhappy workforce regarding critical issues like pay package and an ability to accomplish career goals, CNBC reports. Contrastingly, Google's mission and values fetched the highest scores. CEO Sundar Pichai won a favorable rating of 86% with less-flattering responses to specific Pichai questions.…

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EU, UK Launches Antitrust Investigations On Google, Meta

EU and U.K. antitrust regulators launched parallel investigations into Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) unit Google and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) over a 2018 ad deal, CNBC reports. The European Commission and the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority investigated whether the pact between the two tech giants dubbed “Jedi Blue” squeezed competitors out of…

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