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MARCH 11, 2021

At Apple’s 2020 Worldwide Developer’s Conference, Apple debuted “Sign in with Apple”, a new feature that allows users to sign in to apps and websites that use this feature, using an Apple ID. The Sign in with Apple feature is expected to see similar adoption rates. How Does It work? Why Use It?

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

UK Regulations to Create New Digital Markets Unit. antitrust regulators are creating a Digital Markets Unit that will be given the duty to enforce rules applicable to Big Tech firms. That new division will fall under the country’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Apple Faces $12M Fine Over iPhone Marketing.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Google ’s Project Zero team was the first to let Apple users know iPhones and related Apple products have been subjected to a breach , Forbes reported Sunday (Sept. They found a total of six bugs, and if they were sold on the market, they would be worth upwards of $5 million. path hasn’t completely fixed the issue.

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MARCH 23, 2024

This week’s must-know stories in the FinTech, AI and Digital Asset space: BlackRock tokenizes money market fund on Ethereum Apple in talks to let Google’s Gemini power iPhone AI features US sues Apple over iPhone monopoly in landmark antitrust case Plus, 12 more exclusive stories to help you stay ahead of the curve!

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JULY 30, 2020

Google will bring its new mid-range Android phone to market Aug. 3, according to hidden information on the Google Store page first publicized by 9to5Google. We’re told the phone will have the usual 18w fast charging via USB-C, but once again, Google is skipping out on Qi wireless charging for their lower-end entry.”.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Looks like the digital advertising and marketing sectors are in for a reckoning. The European Union (EU) has levied $126 million USD in fines in that brief time, the biggest against Google at $57 million. That sum is more like a friendly reminder to Google, which did $40 billion in revenue in Q3 2019.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

There is lots of motion in the markets, with Apple officially moving into the world of being a card issuer (with mixed reviews), Venmo making moves on the bank account and Google Pay breaking up with Visa Checkout as a payments button. Apple’s Expensive Card. Google Pay has supported Visa Checkout since 2017.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Coverage includes France’s Natixis Payments bringing Apple Pay to users of Apetiz at restaurants and retailers. In addition, UniCredit customers in Italy can now use the Google Pay digital wallet, and cybercriminals are reportedly using malware to encrypt files and asking for a ransom to be paid through WeChat Pay.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Publishers like all the traffic Google and Facebook have the power to send to news content, but they’re less delighted being beholden to the tech giants and at the mercy of their policies. But Google is aiming to build a friendlier and more productive relationship with content producers, announcing a plan Thursday (Oct. publishers.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Department of Justice (DOJ) is nearing the end of its antitrust investigation of Alphabet Inc’s Google as it considers whether to charge the tech giant this summer, Reuters reported. Federal investigators have asked Google’s competitors to provide details about the alleged abuse of its advertising power by June 30. and Apple Inc.

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JUNE 17, 2021

Eager to turn the ongoing fintech boom into an advantage, big tech companies (Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon) have been taking a number of strategic steps to grow their market share in financial services. Google remains the most active tech giant in fintech equity investments.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

6), Apple confirmed that a largely Muslim minority group in China, the Uighurs, was the target of attacks in a spying attempt tied to iPhone security flaws, but disputed the way Google described the attacks, Reuters reported. Apple said it fixed the problem in February after it was notified of it. On Friday (Sept.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

The dispute between Epic Games and Apple is deepening, Bloomberg said Thursday (Jan. According to Epic in a statement to the U.K's antitrust tribunal, Apple is abusing its dominant position in the market. Epic is not seeking damages from Apple or Google in the U.K., Australia or the U.S.,

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NOVEMBER 1, 2020

In Apple 's annual report , the tech giant discussed the impact that various legal proceedings and new regulations around the world could have on its operations and financial conditions. Apple said that, regardless of the merit of those claims, the lawsuits can prove expensive, costing time and disrupting day-to-day management.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Alphabet , the parent of Google, is getting into the digital payments market in Japan, inking a deal with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) for its Android Pay platform. According to a report , which cited a person with knowledge of the matter, the move is designed to get into Japan’s fast-growing digital payments market.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

As predicted, Amazon has a new Echo coming out in time for the holidays – and here’s how it plans to compete with Apple’s HomePod. This may have been in response to Apple’s challenge with the HomePod, billed as the highest-quality audio experience on the market – but which critics said fell short in many other areas.

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MARCH 21, 2018

Amazon has overtaken Alphabet — Google ’s owner — as the company with the second-highest market value in America, as Google’s stock fell for the third consecutive day on Tuesday (March 20). As of now, Apple is the only company worth more than Amazon at nearly $900 billion.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Google , Apple , Amazon , and Facebook have garnered headlines for their moves in financial services industries — particularly payments — in recent years. In fact, Google’s subsidiary Verily recently formed its own insurance company to provide tech-driven employer health insurance plans. Want the full post?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Google has won a green light from India’s competition watchdog for its plans to purchase a significant stake in Jio Platforms, the nation’s largest telecom. 11) tweet , the Competition Commission of India (CCI) announced its decision to approve Google’s $4.5 Under terms of the deal , Google will acquire a 7.73

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JULY 13, 2020

Google , trying to meet regulators halfway, offered to pledge not to use fitness data to help it target ads in its purchase of Fitbit , Reuters reported. The offer, according to Reuters, would help Google win over EU antitrust authorities in what has been a contentious bid for the merger. percent share.

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JULY 1, 2020

The European Union (EU) has leveled new rules against Google in a bid to help rein in the tech giant, including regulations on data sharing and the operation of digital marketplaces, Reuters reported. Most recently, Google faced a lawsuit earlier this year after the EU levied a €2.4-billion billion ($2.6 billion ($2.6

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The pandemic dramatically accelerated the evolution and maturity of digital marketing. As platforms, approaches, and channels have all shifted seemingly overnight, we have a new normal for changing your marketing strategy more rapidly than ever. Apple | Spotify | Amazon | Google | Stitcher. In Episode 3 of the What If?

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Alphabet-owned Google could be hit by a third lawsuit by state attorneys general, this time over its management of the Play Store, Reuters reported on Friday (Jan. All the lawsuits accuse Google of abusing its dominance in search and antitrust violations. Apple’s App Store is still under investigation by the U.S. and abroad. .

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JANUARY 27, 2020

The probe is centered on whether Google’s monopoly of the online search world – and the ensuing advertising revenue it commands – represent an illegal form of market control. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico formally launched an investigation into Google. Thus far, U.S.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Banco Santander announced that it has hired Trish Burgess, formerly of Apple, to head up its peer-to-peer (P2P) payments department, according to a release. Her co-workers include former employees and executives from Google, Amazon, PayPal, Facebook and Netflix. The team will be spread across Silicon Valley, London and Madrid.

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JULY 10, 2020

Starting next month, Google will ban ads for products or services that secretly track people, the global technology company announced on Friday (July 10). “We We constantly evaluate and update our ad policies to ensure we are protecting users,” Google said in a statement. “We This policy will apply globally on August 11.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Department of Justice (DOJ) is putting the finishing touches on its antitrust lawsuit against Google that could be filed as early as this week, sources told The New York Times. Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Google, Facebook Inc. A DOJ spokeswoman declined to comment.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And Google wants a bigger piece — making a move that seems similar to a recent announcement from Apple. It said Google will make such that announcement at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on March 19 during what that outlet described as a “a mysterious gaming-related press conference.”. Apple Move?

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MARCH 15, 2018

New rules loom in the European Union for tech giants like Apple , Amazon and Google, Reuters reported. By way of example, a nearly $3 billion fine was levied on Google for boosting its own shopping services over those operated by rivals.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

After Epic Games provided gamers with a discounted way to purchase digital items directly via the company, Apple took the Fortnite app off of its App Store Thursday (Aug. ” CNBC reported that Fortnite could still be accessed on the Play Store of Google Thursday. 13) and noted that the game contravened its rules.

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JULY 27, 2020

As Google CEO Sundar Pichai prepares to appear before Congress Wednesday (July 29) to face antitrust charges , Australia’s competition watchdog has accused the Alphabet Inc. This change … was worth a lot of money to Google,” ACCC Commission Chairman Rod Sims told Reuters. “We

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

The tech giants — such as Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon — are well-positioned to do well in fintech, one key reason being that they all have far-reaching platforms with gigantic user bases. Apple and Google are now in fierce competition for the digital wallet category.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Vestager has said the injunctions would be more widely deployed as antitrust investigations continue into Google, Amazon and Apple, among others. “If If you have taken a tool out of a toolbox and have some experience using it, it’s more likely that you’ll use it again,” she said, as quoted by the Journal.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

PullString , a San Francisco maker of technology that enables people to design and publish voice-activated apps, was acquired by Apple. With Amazon leading in the voice-activated speaker market thanks to Alexa and her slew of skills, Apple is trying to fight back. It also has to contend with Google, relegating it to third place.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Google’s parent company Alphabet is the fourth U.S. tech firm to reach $1 trillion market value, joining Apple, Amazon and Microsoft in hitting the milestone, according to reports on Thursday (Jan. Apple and Amazon hit the trillion-dollar mark in the summer of 2018. per share — a market cap of $964 billion.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Regulators in the European Union looked at Apple Pay , the company’s mobile payment system, and came to a conclusion about its market dominance, according to a report by Reuters. 10) that they found Apple was not market dominant, but that they could review the issue again if they received any formal complaints.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

The Justice Department probes into Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon involve antitrust issues as well as concerns over data collection and how it’s used. Attorney General William Barr said that he wants the government probes into big tech companies completed by 2020, according to a report Tuesday (Dec. 9) by Reuters.

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