Thursday 13 May, 2021
Google is considering an appeal of the ruling.
Final amendments to the laws were passed after consultation between Canberra and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
We spoke to one parent whose son’s class was crashed by a stranger who shared inappropriate material.
The law aims to make Google and Facebook pay Australian media companies fairly for using news content they siphon from news sites.
At the height of its powers, Parler had 10 million users.
Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple all faced heavy regulatory scrutiny in 2020.
“If the free market was a baseball game, Google positioned itself as the pitcher, the batter and the umpire,” Texas’ Attorney General said.
Companies including Google, Amazon and Facebook could face fines of up to 10% of their revenues for breaking competition rules.
Google apologised to all users affected by the outage.
The data watchdog said users were “either insufficiently informed or never informed” of cookies being placed on their computers.
The case is one of the country’s biggest antitrust lawsuits in decades.
The ruling came as the US firm announced it was close to a deal on compensating French media groups.
Democrats in the US are hoping to rein in the power of the tech giants.
Property experts say rumours of the capital’s demise are greatly exaggerated.
The Sorting Office space is 202,000 sq feet in size.
Google has argued that paying news outlets for the content they produce is an ‘unfair advantage’.
Epic Games recently released an update that dodges revenue sharing with the tech giants.
The HSE said that the problem should be fixed within 24 hours.
The order comes into effect in 45 days and appears to ban transactions with the Chinese owners of the app.
There is concern that acquiring Fitbit’s user data will strengthen Google’s position in targeted advertising.
The tech giants are being investigated for alleged anti-competitive practices.
The HSE has said it is important not to conflate issues with how Google enables apps through the store with the functionality of this particular app.
New figures show the health service spent more than €1 million on advertising in the first two months of the crisis.
The Department of Health confirms that the tracing app won’t be made mandatory.
The Google-Apple API will be used in the Irish contact tracing app,
Varadkar said that the social media giants are “sort of free riders on costs incurred by other people”.
The move comes after attempts to negotiate voluntary payments failed.
The company wants to test its “operational readiness” should employees have to work from home for an extended period.
The law scholar claims that “Qatari based actors” attempted to unlawfully access his gmail account.
The two inquiries were announced by the Data Protection Commission today.
The Dublin startup isn’t the first business founded by Cummins to be snapped up by the company.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are handing the reins to current Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Minister for Health Simon Harris met with Facebook, Google and Twitter today.
The city is using insights from Google to help tackle the climate crisis.
The tech giant said the changes aim to improve voter confidence in digital political advertising and electoral processes.
The anonymous Google employee shared the information in a video online.
Google is planning to have the playing pitch on the roof terrace of the Boland’s Mill development.
The court ruled the right to be forgotten did not extend outside of Europe.
The health minister sent letters to companies like Facebook and Google in recent weeks.
Internal correspondence shows how gardaí and DCC disagreed over the management of the protests.
