Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe
… Today’s rulings may also offer an indication into how Brussels will approach similar questions involving other tech giants. …
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Tim Cook will still be Apple’s Trump whisperer
… It also fought — and mostly won — an antitrust case against Epic Games, but was later excoriated by the judge who accused Apple of willfully violating a court order and wrested away key control over the App Store. …
Apple wants Europe to blink
… Jan Penfrat, a senior policy adviser for European Digital Rights EDRi , a network of NGOs, experts, and advocates campaigning for digital rights across Europe, sees Apple’s latest moves as a means of putting pressure on the EU Commission to allow it to break the DMA. “It’s very much a lobbying tact… …
Netflix is eating Hollywood — because it has to
… And I think that you have to look at the two worlds that are happening at once. So in order to set where Netflix is currently and why the Warner Bros. deal is so appealing to them now, Netflix every six months puts out something called the engagement report. …
How Zillow grows when there aren’t enough houses
… We want to get to a place where you can open the app—the experience you had that you talked about, the next time you do it, you’re messaging with your agent side of the app, you’re getting pre-approved in the app, you’re closing the app, you’re signing in the app, and you feel that it’s more digita… …
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
… And because we have regulatory capture, there hasn’t been a new privacy law in this country since Ronald Reagan banned the disclosure of your VHS rental histories in 1988. That means that these apps can look up the nurse’s credit history. …
Okta’s CEO on security in the AI era
… We think of an app, a database, and a user interface as one thing. But as that unbundling happens, what is really happening is all the apps that you thought were in various silos are connecting to each other. …
Reality is losing the deepfake war
… What’s the next thing that could happen? From this turn of events, there’s probably going to be some kind of regulatory effort. …
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?
… Obviously the regulatory side of this is just in full throttle right now, right? They have something that at least shows that Meta is bad, that YouTube is bad, and you can make some moves. What do you think happens next on that side of things? …
Lyft CEO David Risher on paying drivers more and the shift to robotaxis
… We’re actually saying the opposite, which is, “How can we help this transition happen in a way that feels orderly?” Yes, how can we share the data of what’s happening, of course, but also how can we help drivers to transition? …