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Google: 50 US states and territories launch competition probe

2019-09-09 21:40:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Fifty states and territories will investigate Google's dominance of the online advertising market.

US states attorneys to launch Facebook and Google antitrust probes

2019-09-09 08:35:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Top state law-enforcement officials across the United States are formally opening antitrust investigations into Facebook and Alphabet's Google, confirming recent reports. New York's attorney general Letitia James said her office is organising a bipartisan, multistate antitrust probe into whether Facebook stifled competition and put users at risk. Separately, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office said it was launching a probe of "large tech companies" without yet naming them.

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Google starts Android 10 roll-out, first to Pixel phones

2019-09-04 09:18:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Google has launched the full version of Android 10. It has started rolling out to Google's Pixel phones first and will reach other new and existing devices later this year.

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Google reveals two-year-long iOS hacking operation

2019-09-02 09:27:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) A group of Google researchers has discovered that thousands of iOS users every week have been subject to an unprecedented hacking operation. In a blog posted by security researcher Ian Beer, part of Google's Project Zero, the company revealed a wide-ranging campaign of iPhone hacking via a small collection of websites. The hacked sites were being used in indiscriminate "watering hole" attacks against their visitors, said Beer, adding that the sites were programmed to assess devices that loaded them, and to compromise them with powerful monitoring malware if possible.

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