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US v. Google is one of the most important antitrust trials in decades, but Judge Amit Mehta has kept most of it out of the public view. That needs to change, argues a new motion from The New York Times.
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Nilay Patel | The Verge
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10/17/23
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A Canadian news industry body on Thursday lent support to some of Google's concerns about a new law that aims to make large internet companies share advertising revenue with news publishers in the country.
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Ismail Shakil | Reuters
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10/16/23
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The tech giant’s ongoing antitrust trial raises the possibility of the federal government, Apple, or both giving Google its first meaningful search competition in decades.
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Joshua Benton | Nieman Lab
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10/5/23
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Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, is the government’s biggest-name witness in its landmark antitrust case against Google.
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David McCabe and Cecilia Kang | The New York Times
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10/3/23
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Bill C-18, the Online News Act, received Royal Assent on June 22. Here’s a Q&A to help explain what C-18 is, where things stand, and what the next steps are.
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Staff | News Media Canada
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9/15/23
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An expert for the prosecution testified that as creatures of habit, humans would rather stick with a default setting then do even the simplest steps to change something.
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Ryan Knappenberger | Courthouse News Service
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9/14/23
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Here’s a primer on the case with more background, what to expect and the potential impact.
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Marty Swant | Digiday
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9/13/23
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Google has exploited its dominance of the internet search market to lock out competitors and smother innovation, the Department of Justice charged Tuesday at the opening of the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century.
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Paul Wiseman and Michael Liedtke | The Associated Press
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9/12/23
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The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine that has become the internet’s main gateway.
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Michael Liedtke | The Associated Press
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9/11/23
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All 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have reached an agreement in principle with Google to settle a lawsuit filed in 2021 over the tech giant’s alleged monopolistic control of app distribution for the software that runs most of the world’s cellphones.
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Frank Bajak | The Associated Press
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9/8/23
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The 10-week trial, set to begin Tuesday, amps up efforts to rein in Big Tech by targeting the core search business that turned Google into a $1.7 trillion behemoth.
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David McCabe and Cecilia Kang | The New York Times
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9/6/23
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The change will affect publishers in UK, France and Germany.
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Bron Maher | Press Gazette
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9/6/23
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"Later this month, I’m heading up to Washington, D. C. to lobby Congress to help save local journalism in our country." — Wyatt Emmerich, publisher, Jackson Northside Sun
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Wyatt Emmerich | Jackson Northside Sun
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9/1/23
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A new study finds that the value of news is far higher than policymakers or publishers think it is, at least on Google Search, which accounts for the majority of Google’s $280 billion annual revenue.
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Dr. Courtney C. Radsch | Tech Policy Press
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8/10/23
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Google has been given a green light to seek dismissal of certain claims in the antitrust suit filed against it by Gannett in June.
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Ray Schultz | MediaPost
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8/7/23
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The AFP news agency launched a copyright case in France on Wednesday against social media giant Twitter, recently rebranded X, part of a global struggle to get tech firms to pay for news.
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Staff | Agence France-Presse
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8/2/23
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Social media giant Meta says it has officially begun ending news availability on its platforms in Canada starting Tuesday, Aug. 1.
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Darren Major | CBC News
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8/1/23
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As if on cue, layoffs and disruption rocked two California dailies right after state legislators tabled a measure to help sustain local newspapers.
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Brier Dudley | Seattle Times Free Press editor
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7/27/23
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Journalists and scholars gathered for two days in South Africa to hammer out details of fair compensation from Big Tech.
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Anya Schiffrin and Courtney Radsch | for Poynter
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7/26/23
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Assembly Bill 886 (in California) has drawn powerful opposition from tech giants such as Meta and Google because it could provide momentum in the U.S. and around the world for directing some advertising proceeds back to the actual creators of the news content that appears on the tech companies’ sites.
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Editorial Board | Sacramento Bee
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7/21/23
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