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Google wants its AI to get a free ride on Maps and YouTube

#394: The search giant argues the AI market is still forming and its rivals are bundling already, but the judge fears it could spawn a new monopoly...

Oct 10 • 

Ricky Sutton

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Even infinite monkeys couldn't write Google an appy ending

#392: Epic Games just beat Google again, with the Supreme Court denying its latest attempt to stall app-store reform...

Oct 7 • 

Ricky Sutton

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After 987 days, Google’s fate rests with one judge

#391: Judge Leonie Brinkema will now decide whether to dismantle Google or trust it to reform itself - a choice that will decide the economics of…

Oct 7 • 

Ricky Sutton

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Stockholm Syndrome takes the stand at Google break-up

#388: In 1973, a young bank teller shielded a robber from snipers and changed psychology forever. We saw a publisher do it again yesterday...

Oct 3 • 

Ricky Sutton

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Why Google ad avails vanish when newsrooms need them

#386: Google just testified that it's helping publishers to hit campaign goals, but the real-world experience suggests the game is rigged...

Oct 1 • 

Ricky Sutton

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September 2025

Fireworks as Europe lights a fuse under Google break-up

#383: Brussels issues a November 5 deadline on fixing ad tech, sparking a geopolitical storm which could split the world wide web...

Sep 26 • 

Ricky Sutton

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Google's 252 trillion ad calls yet claims web is dead

#382: The judge orders Google to stop whining and put up experts to explain how complex handing over its ad tech will really be...

Sep 25 • 

Ricky Sutton

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10:07

Google's ad tech fix is "a Band-Aid on a severed limb"

#381: The future of digital advertising and whether publishers or Big Tech get the spoils is now being decided by a judge...

Sep 23 • 

Ricky Sutton

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You miss 100 per cent of the shots you don't take

#376: Weak remedies have left Google strong but appeals and the looming ad-tech ruling can still come to the rescue of publishers...

Sep 8 • 

Ricky Sutton

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Sinners are grinners as judge spares monopolist Google

#374: The verdict shields its billions, validates AI content theft, and shortens the timeline to Google Zero. It's brutal as usual for publishers...

Sep 4 • 

Ricky Sutton

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August 2025

Chrome, chaos, antitrust, Armageddon - who's ready?

#368: Judges rarely swing hammers this heavy. It could rewrite the future of AI, publishing, and Silicon Valley itself...

Aug 22 • 

Ricky Sutton

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July 2025

DOJ may antitrust Google over YouTube and AdMob next

# 352: Former antitrust chief reveals more cases may follow, how publishers will be protected, and why Big Tech's free run is at an end....

Jul 3 • 

Alan Chapell

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