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The Atlantic, Penske, and Vox Media have all sued Google for antitrust violations
6+ hour, 59+ min ago (277+ words) The cases build off the Justice Department's winning claims against Google's ad tech monopoly. Lawsuits seeking damages from Google's illegal ad tech monopoly are piling up following the Justice Department's successful antitrust case. Vox Media, The Verge's parent company, is…...
The wild, intense rise and fall of Flappy Bird
1+ week, 3+ day ago (67+ words) The wild, intense rise and fall of Flappy Bird'The Verge On Version History: the story of a super simple, virtually impossible game that ultimately burned way too bright. And if you want to relive the story of Flappy Bird, even…...
Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install
3+ week, 4+ day ago (571+ words) Google says it's complying with the Epic injunction by erecting new programs and fees. Today was the deadline for Google to reveal how it's complying with Judge James Donato's order to crack open Android for third-party app stores, stop illegally…...
Playing Doom using a printed receipt as your screen is utterly chaotic.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (161+ words) Gamers have found ways to play Doom on all sorts of devices, but swapping your screen for an Epson thermal printer spitting out frames as fast as it can on receipt paper could be the worst. According to Bringus Studios,…...
Judge wants to fix Google’s ad tech monopoly before it’s too late
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (528+ words) The judge was wary of how a breakup could work while Google likely appeals. Google and the Justice Department had their last chance to make their case before Judge Leonie Brinkema Friday before she ... Google and the Justice Department had…...
Magic: The Gathering’s future looks like Fortnite, and fans are split
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (457+ words) Sets with cards from Final Fantasy, Spider-Man, and more are starting to squeeze out sets from Magic's own universe. "From Wizards' side, it was a slam dunk," said Shivam Bhatt, an MTG content creator and former MTG consultant who's been…...
Google fights to prevent search remedies from inhibiting its AI ambitions
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (330+ words) A court order will require Google to scale back some of its more aggressive tactics to get its search engine in front of as many users as possible, but it's still fighting to make sure new restrictions won't limit its…...
Breaking up (Google) is hard to do
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (130+ words) A court-ordered sale of Google's ad tech tools could backfire on publishers, the company warned. Breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly is, apparently, like going to Mars or trying to replace Michael Jordan " dubiously possible and a huge amount of…...
Can Google be trusted without a break up?
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (318+ words) As long as Google still has the means and incentives to accrue dominance, the DOJ argues, it will likely do so again. Soon, Brinkema will decide how hard to crack down on the monopoly that she ruled Google holds in…...
Google just asked the Supreme Court to save it from the Epic ruling
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (243+ words) The Supreme Court is Google's last hope to avoid an Epic reckoning in October," I wrote last week. Google apparently agrees. Today, it's finally elevated its Epic v. Google case, the one that might fracture its control over the entire Android…...