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Google loses appeal over app store overhaul

Google loses appeal in antitrust battle with Fortnite maker

A federal appeals court has upheld a jury verdict condemning Google's Android app store as an illegal monopoly, clearing the way for a federal judge to enforce a potentially disruptive shakeup that's designed to give consumers more choices.

U.S. News & World Report · 13h

Google Loses US Appeal Over App Store Reforms in Epic Games Case

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a unanimous ruling, rejected claims from Google that the trial judge made legal errors in the antitrust case that unfairly benefited "Fortnite" maker Epic Games, which filed the lawsuit in 2020.

Reuters · 7h

US appeals court agrees to pause Google app store reform order for now

A U.S. appeals court on Friday agreed to delay a sweeping overhaul of Google's app store Play, as the technology giant continues to challenge a judge's order requiring the reforms in a lawsuit brought by “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games.

Google, ChatGPT

PCMag on MSN · 8h

After Backlash, ChatGPT Removes Option to Have Private Chats Indexed by Google

OpenAI deletes the option to publish conversations to search engines because it 'introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn't intend to,' it says.

Ars Technica · 16h

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly personal—chats to appear in search results.

Insider on MSN · 9h

Your chats with Meta's AI might end up on Google — just like ChatGPT until it turned them off

Meta lets you share your chats with its AI bot to a public feed. Google can index that feed — and make your searchable and public.

Google lost its antitrust case with Epic

The Register on MSN · 11h

Court upholds Epic win in Google Play Store antitrust battle

Appeals panel says Chocolate Factory abused its dominance in Android app distribution A panel of judges has dismissed Google's appeal against an antitrust verdict over its Play Store business practices.

MediaPost · 1d

Epic Prevails In Antitrust Fight With Google

Siding against Google, a federal appellate court on Thursday upheld a jury's finding that the Play Store policies violated antitrust law, and left in place an injunction requiring the company to revamp its app marketplace.

Engadget on MSN · 1d

Google lost its antitrust case with Epic again

Google's attempt to appeal the decision in Epic v. Google has failed. In a newly released opinion, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided to uphold the original Epic v. Google lawsuit that found that Google's Play Store and payment systems are monopolies.

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Google backtracks on plans to deactivate shortened goo.gl links

Google is largely reversing course on its plans to discontinue support for all shortened goo.gl URLs on August 25th. Goo.gl ...

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Google is killing millions of web links to save a few bucks

The company junked its 15-year-old web address format, which will break a deluge of links in academic research, court ...

The clock is ticking: Google has 14 days to make major changes to the Play Store

According to The Verge, Google has revealed that it has only 14 days to enact the significant changes it was ordered to make ...

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Google releases Gemini 2.5 Deep Think for AI Ultra subscribers

Deep Think is based on the same foundation as Gemini 2.5 Pro, but it increases the "thinking time" with greater parallel ...

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Danny Sullivan no longer the Google Search Liaison

Sullivan is moving into a new role within the Google Search team, after seven and a half years being with Google.

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Google is experimenting with machine learning-powered age-estimation tech in the US

Google rolled out similar measures for YouTube earlier this week, and now the company is experimenting with machine ...

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Google to invest $6 billion in southern India data centre, sources say

Google will invest $6 billion to develop a 1-gigawatt data centre and its power infrastructure in the southern Indian state ...

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