Fahad HJun 7, 20133 min readScope of Alleged Spying On Americans’ Internet Activity Massive, “Beyond Orwellian”Those data, it has been alleged, come in large part from direct access to the servers of most of the Internet’s biggest brands: Google,...
Fahad HMay 31, 20135 min readGoogle Stands In For “The Emerald City” In The Internship MovieThe Internship, starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson (opening June 7), where they and their team of Google summer interns try to sell a...
Fahad HMay 27, 20133 min readEU-Google “Rival Links” Antitrust Settlement Provision Creates New Controversysettlement with the company earlier this year. It’s a highly problematic issue from a legal standpoint but it’s the one Google’s critics...
Fahad HMay 23, 20132 min readMore Antritrust Pain For Google: FTC To Probe Display Ads BizBloomberg, Google is facing yet another antitrust headache at the hands of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The agency is fresh off...
Fahad HMay 22, 20132 min readApple Targets Samsung Galaxy S4 & “Google Now” With Amended Patent Claimsaccording to Foss Patents, which also reports that Apple asserts Google Now infringes two patents associated with Siri. Overall, there...
Fahad HMay 20, 20132 min readTwo New Shoes Drop On Google: UK Tax Whistleblower And Canadian Antitrust ActionFinancial Post, the country’s Competition Bureau is preparing to launch a formal antitrust investigation into Google’s Canadian business...
Fahad HMay 18, 20131 min readMicrosoft Slams Google In Nasty, Internal Parody Of Chrome AdIt’s a fake Chrome ad that’s part of Microsoft’s ongoing “Scroogled” campaign against Google, but it was supposed to remain internal. It...
Fahad HMay 7, 20132 min readStudy Finds Only 35% Of Google Products Have Closed Throughout Google’s HistoryGoogle Reader earlier this year led many users to wonder what products will end up on the chopping block next. Thanks to a study...
Fahad HMay 6, 20132 min readEurope Finds That Google’s Motorola Unit “Abused Its Dominant Position” In Patent preliminary determination that Google’s Motorola Mobility unit “abused its dominant position” under EU antitrust rules in seeking to...
Fahad HApr 18, 20131 min readGoogle’s $82 Million Private Airport Terminal ApprovedAPR reports Google has been approved in a 10 – 1 vote by the San Jose City Council to lease a private airport terminal for $82 million on...
Fahad HApr 10, 20136 min readThe HTC First: How Facebook’s New Phone Ruins FairSearch’s Competition Complaint Over AnAnti-Google lobbying group FairSearch lobbed an antitrust grenade at Google’s Android operating system yesterday, complaining to the...
Fahad HMar 19, 20132 min readFairSearch Objects To Google’s “Top-Domain Name Land Grab”The organization — which is backed by the likes of Microsoft, TripAdvisor, Nokia and other Google competitors — announced today that it...
Fahad HMar 6, 20132 min readEU Imposes €561 Million ($731 Million) Fine On Microsoft — With Google In Mindimposed a fine of €561 million ($731 million) for not upholding its agreement to offer alternative Web browsers to Windows users. In...
Fahad HMar 5, 20134 min readThe Rise & Fall Of Microsoft’s “Scroogled” Petition Against GmailAt First, The Petition To Nowhere Last month, I covered how after the first week of its existence, Microsoft’s petition was seeing a...
Fahad HMar 5, 20131 min readChina Sounds Alarm About Android Market Dominancesearch market share may be hovering below 5 percent, Android is the overwhelmingly dominant smartphone operating system in the world’s...
Fahad HMar 4, 20133 min readMicrosoft Dropping “Scroogled” Ads That Attack GoogleMicrosoft is reportedly ending buying TV, newspaper and social media ads promoting its “Scroogled” campaign, which was launched in...
Fahad HFeb 25, 20132 min readGoogle Prepares New Streaming Music Service As Record Industry Slams Company’s Anti-Piracy Effreports from late last week indicating that Google is negotiating with major labels in anticipation of the launch of Spotify-like music...
Fahad HFeb 18, 20132 min readEU Regulators “Plan To Take Action” Against Google Privacy Policyreports this morning that frustrated European authorities “plan to take action” against Google for its failure to satisfy them regarding...
Fahad HFeb 14, 201312 min readMicrosoft’s “Scroogled” Campaign Against Gmail Wins 0.002% Of UsersScroogled” campaign portraying Gmail as a privacy monster that reads your emails for ad targeting purposes. How’s that been working out?...
Fahad HFeb 13, 20134 min readGoogle Play Gives Email Addresses To Developers, Raises Privacy IssuesAttention is being focused on how Google Play — Google’s app and content store — provides the name, email address and city location of...
