Spotify, Tile, and Match Group call Apple anticompetitive at Senate hearing

Representatives from Spotify, Match Group, and Tinder testified against Apple at a Senate hearing Wednesday, accusing the Cupertino company of anticompetitive conduct.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 36

Browsers push back against Google's proposed FLoC ad system

Major browsers have rejected Google's new proposal for creating targeted ads, saying that they fear the system could put users' privacy at risk.

Amber Neely 5 years ago 17

Facebook staff can continue remote working, but may face pay cut [u]

As Apple, Google, and others plan getting workers back into offices after the coronavirus, Facebook says that it will support staff continuing to work from home — with certain conditions.

William Gallagher 5 years ago 17

UK NHS coronavirus app update blocked for breaking Apple, Google rules

An update to the UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app has been blocked because it breaks rules about collecting location data.

William Gallagher 5 years ago 19

Google gamed its ad auction system to favor its own ads, generated $213 million

Google used a secret program called "Bernanke" that used historical bidding data to give its ad-buying system a major advantage over its rivals, an antitrust lawsuit filing claims, a program that earned the company hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

Malcolm Owen 5 years ago 10

Google rebuts Pixel 5a rumors, following speculation of cancellation

Prolific leaker Jon Prosser claimed that the Google Pixel 5a was cancelled — and in response, Google is saying that the phone is, in fact, coming later in 2021.

Wesley Hilliard 5 years ago 14

Peter Thiel calls Apple's relationship with China a 'real problem'

Tech investor Peter Thiel on Tuesday criticized Apple and Google for cozying up to China, saying Apple's supply chain is a cause for concern.

Mikey Campbell 5 years ago 0

Google I/O 2021 set for May 18 through May 20, free for the first time

Google has announced the dates for its annual developer conference, Google I/O, and it will be totally virtual and free to watch online.

Wesley Hilliard 5 years ago 4

Google starts funneling Chrome users into groups to ease targeted advertising

Google plans to eventually abandon third-party cookies and move to a new method of collecting data on users in aggregate to assist in targeting ads — and it has automatically opted in an unknown number of users to the beta test.

Amber Neely 5 years ago 5

All Google flagship iOS apps now feature privacy nutrition labels

All of Google's major apps on the App Store now feature privacy nutrition label data, per new Apple developer guidelines that took effect in late 2020.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 1

Supreme Court rules in favor of Google in Oracle Java fight

The US Supreme Court has sided with Google in the search company's long-running legal fight with Oracle, declaring Android could use APIs from the Oracle-owned Java.

Malcolm Owen 5 years ago 42

Republican lawmakers grill Apple, Amazon and Google over Parler removal

Republican lawmakers on the House and Senate antitrust committees have penned letters to Apple, Google, and Amazon, pressing them on the platform removal of fringe social media platform Parler.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 0

Study finds Android shares 20x more data with Google than iOS does with Apple

A study conducted by a professor of computer science at Trinity College Dublin found that a typical Android handset collects some 20 times more data about its user than a comparable iPhone.

AppleInsider Staff 5 years ago 21

If you can't convert a file into a PDF, maybe you shouldn't be writing laws about technology

Not everyone can be trusted with the almighty power of a sudo command in the Terminal. Yet, politicians who know nothing about the inner workings of computers, software, or the internet at large have declared themselves super users, proposing dangerously misinformed policies and laws that could have disastrous effects.

Neil Hughes 5 years ago 56

Lawmakers remain conflicted about what to do about Section 230

The CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter squared off with lawmakers Thursday in a hearing focused on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 33

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