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Waze Introduces Contactless Payments At ExxonMobil, Shell Stations

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Google, the world’s dominant online search engine, has faced growing regulatory scrutiny in recent years. Last month, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and the CEOs from Apple, Amazon and Facebook faced questions from the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on antitrust issues.

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Big Tech Antitrust Hearing Rescheduled For July 29

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are now scheduled to appear before a Congressional subcommittee exploring competitive practices among Big Tech Wednesday (July 29) instead of Monday (July 27) as originally planned. The proceedings should be available for live online viewing.

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Bringing The Farmers Market Online With Apps

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Customers download the app through the Apple App Store or Google Play and sign up for the service and choose the market that suits them. That opens the door for producers from Southern Maine, New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts and Rhode Island.) For deliveries, the company does milk-run logistics.

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GOP Leader Demands Twitter CEO Testify In Antitrust Probe

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That’s in addition to the existing antitrust lineup : Amazon ’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook ’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google ’s Sundar Pichai and Apple ’s Tim Cook. The outcome of that investigation is expected to produce legislation that would reform and regulate the online world. All four companies are also being looked into by the U.S.

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EU Begins Antitrust Probe Into Amazon, Fines Qualcomm

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Vestager is at the close of her five-year term as competition commissioner, during which she took on tech giants, including Google , which was fined more than 8 billion euros ($9 billion) in three separate antitrust cases; and Apple , which had to pay 13 billion euros ($14.6 billion) in back taxes to the Irish government.

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House Questions Big Tech Over Antitrust Concerns

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And, separately, in an appearance before the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google executives testified about their business practices. There are low barriers to entry in the online sector, Perault added, especially for digital platforms. There was a separate panel on Google and censorship.

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Google’s AG Onslaught A Big Fizzle For Tech

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13) to Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google to get documents that might shed light on market dominance. Apple market cap: Who says there are no second acts in life? The debut of the latest iPhone iteration, new Apple Watch and new iPads, helps push the company’s market cap past the $1 trillion mark — for the second time.