Category: Google

NTD Business (April 26): Disney Sues DeSantis After Privileges Revoked; House Republicans Vote on Debt Ceiling Bill

The House is voting on a Republican bill to raise the U.S. debt limit. What are lawmakers saying, and does it have any chance to pass? Disney is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, escalating the conflict to new heights. The company just had its special taxing powers revoked. Both Microsoft and Google had a heavy…


Michael Taube: Why Canada Will Join a Rogues’ List If Bill C-18 Passes

Commentary The long-anticipated showdown between Canada and Google on Bill C-18 is nigh. When the imaginary pistols are drawn, and the invisible bullets are fired, the reputation of this country could be shattered beyond reproach. Bill C-18, or an Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada, was first…


Google Tests Blocking News Content for Some Canadians in Response to Government Bill

Google is blocking some Canadian users from viewing news content in what the company says is a test run of a potential response to the Liberal government’s online news bill. Also known as Bill C-18, the Online News Act would require digital giants such as Google and Meta, which owns Facebook, to negotiate deals that…


Google Wins Appeal of $20 Million US Patent Verdict Over Chrome Technology

Alphabet’s Google LLC on Tuesday convinced a U.S. appeals court to cancel three anti-malware patents at the heart of a Texas jury’s $20 million infringement verdict against the company. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said that Alfonso Cioffi and Allen Rozman’s patents were invalid because they contained inventions that were not…


Google Ordered to Pay $500,000 to Montrealer Over Links to Post Calling Him Pedophile

A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered Google to pay $500,000 to a Montreal man after the tech company restored a link to an online post falsely accusing him of being a pedophile. The man, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, first found the defamatory post in 2007 when he used Google to…


9 States Join DOJ’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google

Nine states on Monday joined eight others in a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice against Google for allegedly monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology products. The amended lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. It accuses Google of monopolizing key digital advertising technologies, known as the “ad…


Google CEO Issues Warning About Future of Artificial Intelligence

The CEO of Google and its parent, Alphabet, warned about the future effects of artificial intelligence on humanity. CEO Sundar Pichai said that “every product of every company” will be impacted by the rapid development of AI, in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” on April 16. He said that society needs to prepare for the revolution in AI…


Google Issues Urgent Chrome Update to Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerability

Google released an emergency update to resolve an actively exploited flaw in its highly popular Chrome browser. The bug, tracked as CVE-2023-2033, was deemed a “high” severity vulnerability by Google in an update posted on April 14. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-2033 exists in the wild,” the search giant wrote in its advisory, meaning the bug…


Peter Menzies: Extortion, Dependency, and Media Welfare: The Liberals’ Bill C-18

Commentary Twenty years ago, the newspaper I worked for turned an easy $50 million-plus a year in profit. Less than three months ago, its building was sold and remnants of its once-bustling newsroom work from their homes. Its owners increasingly depend on federal government assistance, the latest version of which, the Online News Act (Bill…


LIVE 5 PM ET: NTD Business (April 6): Jordan Subpoenas Ex-Manhattan Prosecutor; Google Reveals New AI Supercomputer Tech

The latest on the unprecedented indictment against former President Trump. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan toady ordering a former Manhattan prosecutor to testify. And what would be Trump lawyer’s next move? A nationally known law professor analyzes the case. Stay tuned for the interview. Google unveils its latest supercomputer technology, which it uses to power…