In a landmark antitrust complaint, the Justice Department is targeting a secretive partnership that is worth billions of dollars to both companies.
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Daisuke WakabayashiNegotiated in secret and rarely discussed, Google’s deal with Apple is one of the most lucrative alliances in history and now it’s the target of antitrust scrutiny from the US government. Story w @jacknicas
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Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google’s parent company for less than a year, already faces the internet giant’s biggest threat in its 22 years.
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Daisuke WakabayashiHe’s not Bill Gates and he’s not Larry Page. Google’s antitrust fight puts the spotlight on Sundar Pichai, the company’s low-key CEO who was not named once in the Justice Department’s 57-page complaint
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Daisuke WakabayashiAs Twitter and Facebook scrambled to take action on the NY Post Biden story, YouTube has said laid low. It has said nothing and it's not clear what, if anything, it has done.
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A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.
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Daisuke WakabayashiGoogle employees are not shy about discussing anything and everything. But when it comes to antitrust, they know that it's better to say less. A story on how Google employees have learned to live with a decade of antitrust scrutiny
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Daisuke Wakabayashiif you're counting down the hours and minutes until the DOJ suit against Google because you just can't get ENOUGH antitrust content, may I recommend this story which disappeared yesterday into an iPhone 12 vortex?
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Google’s parent company was hit with a wave of lawsuits after The New York Times reported that an accused executive had received a $90 million exit package.
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Daisuke WakabayashiNEW: Google has settled its shareholder lawsuit. It includes $310 million for diversity workplace initiatives, reforms to board procedures and updated workplace policies
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When downloads of the Chinese-owned messaging service are barred in the U.S. starting at midnight on Sunday, the feud between the countries will hit home for millions of people.
A fire destroyed much of Phoenix, Ore., leaving people to wonder whether the town can rise from the ashes. “There’s nothing to sift through,” one resident said.
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Daisuke WakabayashiWhat a heartbreaking story beautifully told by @jacknicas as he drove through an Oregon town devastated by the fires. I had to sit with this one for a while. The storytelling is so vivid.
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Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don’t have children.
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Daisuke WakabayashiWhen the pandemic forced office and school closures, some companies offered more time off to parents. But as the impact of Covid drags on, some employees without kids are saying this is unfair. It's causing a rift at some companies, especially at Facebook
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The attorney general is said to have set a deadline over the objections of career lawyers who say they need more time to build the case.
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Daisuke WakabayashiIgnoring pleas from lawyers working on the case, William Barr is pushing DOJ to bring antitrust lawsuit against Google this month. An interesting look at the discord behind DOJ's case By @ceciliakang@ktbenner
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The move, a response to pressure to pay publishers when their stories are posted on the social network, could add to internet silos springing up around the world.
Silicon Valley has enthusiastically backed Ms. Harris since she first ran for state attorney general in California a decade ago.
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Daisuke WakabayashiIn her speech, Kamala Harris highlighted her roots in the Bay Area, which means like many people here, she also has deep connections to the tech world. What does that mean for a potential Biden presidency? Story w @stefsaul@kenvogel
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Even though the tech industry’s four biggest companies were stung by a slowdown in spending, they reported a combined $28 billion in profits on Thursday.
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Daisuke WakabayashiWed - CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google: There is lots of competition. Our dominance is overstated.
Thurs - The four report combined quarterly profit of $28.6 bln during one of the worst economies on record.
Story w/ @KYWeise@jacknicas@MikeIsaac
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Approximately 86% of online display advertising space in the U.S. is bought and sold in real-time on electronic trading venues, which the industry calls "a