YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge
Image: PixieMe (Shutterstock) The best part about one company revolutionizing video-sharing on the internet is that it gets the say in how awful that experience can be. After beginning to…
Apple’s Payment Requirements Are Out of Control, Dutch Regulators Say Enough Is Enough
Image: Primakov (Shutterstock) Apple’s payment practices requiring subscription-forward apps to exclusively accept payments through Apple Pay violated antitrust laws, according to a Dutch regulator ruling reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday.…
Elon Musk Gets a Wake-Up Call as Tesla Valuation Falls 20% on Shrinking EV Demand
Image: Sheila Fitzgerald (Shutterstock) Not even Elon Musk’s Tesla—which was touted as a vehicle manufacturing unicorn meant to dent the climate crisis—can withstand those pesky macroeconomic trends. Tesla’s valuation has…
As Banks Write Down X, Musk Offers Employee Stock Options
Image: Michele Ursi (Shutterstock) If the ship’s going down, at least the employees all get a piece of the pie. As X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) continues to…
Sundar Pichai Defends Google Paying Billions to Remain Top Search Engine
Google CEO Sundar Pichai upheld the company’s decision to pay out billions of dollars to remain the top global search engine at the U.S. anti-trust trial on Monday, according to…
Google, Amazon Pour Billions Into ChatGPT Competitor
Photo: Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket (Getty Images) Google will invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI, ramping up the race between artificial intelligence companies, originally reported by…
Amazon’s iRobot Takeover on Course for Approval by February
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) European Union antitrust regulators set a Feb. 14 deadline to approve Amazon’s $1.4 billion purchase of iRobot, the maker of Roomba, according to a report…
SBF Testifies That Alameda Only ‘Borrowed’ Customer Funds
Photo: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Sam Bankman-Fried testified before a jury for the first time on Friday saying he did not defraud FTX customers or take their funds, according…
Google Paid How Much to Be the Default Search Engine?
Google’s antitrust trial revealed the multi-billion dollar tech company paid out a whopping total of $26.3 billion in 2021 to keep its status as the default search engine on phones…
Crypto Exchanges, Not Just FTX, Are All a Mess Right Now
Photo: Benjamin Girette (Getty Images) The founders of cryptocurrency exchanges face a mountain of regulatory challenges and billions in personal losses. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao personally lost $12 billion this year…