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Who is Rishi Shah: The man who defrauded Goldman Sachs, Google of $1 billion
Rishi Shah, co-founder of Outcome Health, has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for orchestrating a $1 billion fraud scheme involving his healthcare advertising startup. The case has impacted major investors and drawn attention to corporate accountability.
US sues Adobe over hard-to-cancel subscriptions
The Justice Department said in its lawsuit that Adobe hid details of an expensive cancellation fee from consumers "in fine print and behind optional text boxes and hyperlinks." Adobe's website and customer service representatives made canceling additionally challenging, according to allegations in the suit.
Google loses bid to end US antitrust case over digital advertising
Google had argued for a win without a trial, saying that antitrust laws do not block companies from refusing to deal with rivals and that regulators had not accurately defined the ad tech market.
Judge rules Google will not face jury trial in US digital ads case
Google avoids jury trial by paying $2.3 million to U.S. government for alleged digital advertising dominance, preventing the first-ever civil antitrust case jury trial by the Justice Department and states suing the tech giant.
US clears way for antitrust inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI
Federal regulators are proceeding with antitrust investigations into Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia in the AI industry. The Justice Department and FTC are leading the investigations, signaling increased scrutiny into AI technology.
Google's AI search leaves publishers scrambling
The New York Times article discusses concerns from publishing executives like Frank Pine regarding Google's AI-generated summaries, emphasizing the impact on traffic and the need for direct reader relationships to reduce reliance on search engines.
US court to hear challenges to potential TikTok ban in September
A U.S. appeals court sets a fast-track schedule to consider challenges to a new law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban, joined by TikTok, ByteDance, and TikTok content creators.
EU industry chief urges US to pass new tech rules, foster shared digital market
EU's industry chief calls for new tech regulations for global digital market. Leading in tech regulation with DMA and AI Act. U.S. facing antitrust lawsuit against Apple by Department of Justice.
Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial
Google disclosed the payment, but not the amount, in a court filing last week that said the case should be heard and decided by a judge directly. Without a monetary damages claim, Google argued, the government has no right to a jury trial.
Google seeks non-jury trial in US ad tech lawsuit
Alphabet's Google is seeking a non-jury trial in the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit over online advertising practices. It argued against the department's request for a jury trial due to the technical nature of the case. The lawsuit, filed in January 2023, accuses Google of abusing its dominance in digital advertising. Google's ad network is crucial to its revenue.
TikTok creators file suit to block US divestment or ban law
The suit, which seeks injunctive relief, says the law threatens free speech and "promises to shutter a discrete medium of communication that has become part of American life."
Rumble sues Google over digital advertising practices
The suit alleges Google has monopolized the ad stack "by buying companies up and down the chain, concurrently representing both ad buyers and sellers, while also running the exchange that connects those parties."
Google fights $17 billion UK lawsuit over adtech practices
The lawsuit seeks damages of up to 13.6 billion pounds ($16.9 billion) on behalf of publishers of websites and apps based in the United Kingdom, who say they have suffered losses due to Google's allegedly anticompetitive behaviour.
Google, Apple threatened by same antitrust laws that boosted them
Federal lawyers have even gone as far as to assert Google and Apple may never have created so many popular products or become as powerful as they are now if Microsoft hadn't been reined in a quarter century ago.
Google's contemplated mega deal would prompt new fight with regulators
Google was mulling an offer for HubSpot, which has a market value of $34 billion. Google has been weighing the antitrust risks of a potential deal and has yet to decide if it will make an offer. Nearly a dozen antitrust experts and industry analysts said in interviews and analyst notes that it was unlikely that an acquisition by Google would hamper competition.
The second coming of the Microsoft antitrust battle?
Impeding innovation. Reducing consumer choice. Extending dominance to other markets. These are accusations that the Justice Department leveled against a technology giant it accused of running an illegal monopoly. But they aren't from last week's antitrust lawsuit against Apple -- they're from the case the department brought against Microsoft in 1998.
US justice department to target pre-IPO artificial intelligence frauds: top attorney
Ismail Ramsey, who became US attorney for the Northern District of California a year ago, said his office is uniquely positioned to crack down on tech startups that mislead investors on the path to initial public offerings (IPOs) given his proximity to Silicon Valley venture and angel investors.
Google play trial thrusts Android into spotlight
Android is less integral to Google than its search and advertising business which is the subject of a different federal antitrust lawsuit by the Justice Department the Epic trial offered a window into previously unpublicized strategic forays by the world's fourth-largest company by market cap and deals it has made with Samsung Electronics Co., Activision Blizzard Inc. and Spotify Technology SA.
What's next in Google's court battle with the US Justice Department?
Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will rule sometime in 2024 on whether any of Google's actions broke antitrust law. The following is what might happen after his ruling, according to experts.
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