monopoly

Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons

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A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Apple is staunchly denying any parallels between itself and Microsoft in the 1990s. It’s a comparison into which the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland leaned heavily in last week’s filing. While portions of the United … Read more

DOJ claims green bubbles are an issue in iPhone monopoly suit

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The United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple earlier today. The suit touches on several (allegedly) anticompetitive practices. But one category in particular caught our attention as the DOJ spends quite a bit of time talking about “green bubbles” and “blue bubbles.” When an iPhone user sends a message to another … Read more

Apple Sued By Dept. of Justice for Monopoly on Smartphones

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Uncle Sam is taking Apple to court — claiming they have a monopoly on the smartphone business and that the interconnected nature of their products is a little too anti-competitive. The Dept. of Justice filed a federal lawsuit against Tim Cook’s company Thursday, which makes a lot of allegations against the tech giant … including … Read more

DOJ sues Apple over iPhone monopoly in landmark antitrust case

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The Department of Justice sued Apple on Thursday, saying its iPhone ecosystem is a monopoly that drove its “astronomical valuation” at the expense of consumers, developers and rival phone makers. The lawsuit claims that Apple’s anti-competitive practices extend beyond the iPhone and Apple Watch businesses, citing Apple’s advertising, browser, FaceTime and news offerings. “Each step … Read more

Monopoly Go Spent More on Marketing Than Sony Spent to Make Spider-Man 2

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This story originally appeared on Kotaku. Monopoly Go, a multiplayer mobile board game, launched on April 11, 2023. Since then it has made over 2 billion dollars, been downloaded 100+ million times, and become one of the most popular digital games on the planet. But to reach this point, Scopely, the studio behind the hit … Read more

Google foreshadows its final arguments in search monopoly trial

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Google has offered a glimpse into its final arguments to a DC federal judge as it seeks to convince the court it’s not operating an unlawful monopoly in search. The company filed an unsealed version of its posttrial brief on Friday in its battle against the US Department of Justice over its search distribution agreements. … Read more

Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

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After just a few hours of deliberation, the jury unanimously answered yes to every question put before them — that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution markets and in-app billing services markets, that Google did anticompetitive things in those markets, and that Epic was injured by that behavior. They decided Google has … Read more

Google’s App Store Ruled an Illegal Monopoly, as a Jury Sides With Epic Games

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More bad news for Google could come in mid-2024 when US district judge Amit Mehta in Washington, DC, is expected to issue his ruling on whether Google has unlawfully maintained its monopoly over web search. Testimony in that case, which was brought by the US Department of Justice and attorneys general for nearly every US … Read more

Putin to boost AI work in Russia to fight a Western monopoly he says is ‘unacceptable and dangerous’

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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday announced a plan to endorse a national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence, emphasizing that it’s essential to prevent a Western monopoly. Speaking at an AI conference in Moscow, Putin noted that “it’s imperative to use Russian solutions in the field of creating reliable and transparent … Read more