Fahad HJan 10, 20131 min readFrench ISP Takes On Google By Blocking Its Ads For A WeekThe blocker was turned off after a week, and it only worked for a fraction of Free’s users — those who were using the latest version of...
Fahad HJan 10, 20132 min readEric Schmidt Preaches Gospel Of “Openness” To North KoreansRichardson was ostensibly there to help win or accelerate the release of a Korean-American, Kenneth Bae, being held in captivity. But...
Fahad HJan 7, 20132 min readGoogle’s Schmidt Goes To North Korea But Why?arrived earlier this morning in Pyongyang, North Korea. They were there on what was described by Richardson as “a private humanitarian...
Fahad HNov 20, 20121 min readFrench Come After Google For “Back Taxes”reports that French authorities are talking to Google about paying substantial “back taxes.” The wire service says that the French Budget...
Fahad HNov 19, 20122 min readGoogle Puts “Cookiegate” To Bed As More Legal Battles Loomapproved Google’s $22.5 million settlement with the FTC. Some Google critics decried the settlement as having little impact on Google....
Fahad HNov 1, 20122 min readCash-Strapped Euro Governments Look To Online Giants For Additional Tax Revenuescriticized and investigated for what several European governments consider to be tax avoidance. In the UK and France in particular Google...
Fahad HSep 4, 20122 min readUK Writer Repeats Gmail “Racial Profiling” Claim Against Googleclaims that he’s replicated US writer Nathan Newman’s informal “experiment” suggesting that Google conducts “racial profiling” in the...
Fahad HAug 22, 20121 min readGoogle Leads Chinese In-App Mobile Display Ad Markethacked into Gmail in early 2010, Google has struggled with its “China policy.” It threatened to withdraw from China and then reversed...
Fahad HAug 19, 20122 min readGoogle (As Motorola) Sues Apple Over Patents, Seeks US Import Ban On iPhones, MacsThe earlier Motorola ITC patent victory was based on a single claim related to wireless 3G standards. Motorola seeks an import ban on...
Fahad HAug 14, 20121 min readIndia Begins Formal Antitrust Investigation Against GoogleReuters the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has opened a formal antitrust investigation against Google. The article reports that...
Fahad HMay 29, 20122 min readUK, Australia May Reopen Street View Privacy Probes After FCC Reportasserted that the personal data collected was not inadvertent but intentional. Privacy regulators in both the UK and Australia are now...
Fahad HMay 7, 20122 min readKeeping The Lawyers Busy: Google Now Faces Antitrust Investigation In Indiaaccording to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The Competition Commission of India said that although it’s initially focused on AdWords the...
Fahad HApr 20, 20121 min readGerman Court Orders YouTube To Improve Copyright ProtectionsHamburg’s state court has told YouTube Germany that it must prevent users from uploading some music videos whose copyrights belong to the...
Fahad HApr 17, 20121 min readFacebook Passes Google As Most-Visited Site In BrazilSerasa Experian (link in Portuguese), the Brazilian version of Experian Hitwise. The company reports that Facebook first beat out Google...
