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The Big Tech Playbook

Business Insider and Time pose new visions for AI news
Plus, big changes at the GNI, Apple's Great Wall of China, the Aussie selling Google, bros take over regulation, YouTube hikes prices, and more...
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Ricky Sutton
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What news can learn from a pro Big Tech negotiator
Google signed on for $100 million, but Meta banned news in Canada. Here are some lessons from the man who led the news industry's fight...
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I won't let news make Meta users unhappy
Zuckerberg has pivoted from a local news supporter to banning headlines, but he says he's following a societal shift away from news' angry agenda...
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Payback time for publishing as Google goes on parole
The US Government has revealed the penalties it wants, which could kill AI Overviews, reset copyright, and expose Google's innermost secrets...
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Google's witness factory prompts a DoJ blast
The antitrust trial drowned in Google Kool Aid yesterday as paid witnesses sought to paint it as a friend of everyday folk...
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Step-by-step, how Google demolished publisher ads
The deadliest predators run silent and run deep, but every now and again, they pop above the surface and into the light of day...
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The deal that made Google a trillionaire paperboy
Court hears how Google's purchase of DoubleClick on Friday the Thirteenth 2007 turned out to be extremely bad luck for the news industry...
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History will judge Google as it heads to antitrust decider
The tech giant finds itself under siege, a marauding army at the gates, but win or lose, the era of news and advertising as we know it is ending...
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We're at peak tech, and that's why Apple looks so rotten
Yeah yeah, no-one believes me but let me share some of the very real ways that you are being hurt by Cupertino's $363 billion juggernaut...
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Apple shapeshifs to use privacy creds for profit - DoJ
Antitrust enforcers allege Apple wraps itself "in a cloak of privacy, security, and consumer preferences to justify its anticompetitive conduct..."
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Sleepless nights as Google counts down to break-up
You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me. But we are never, ever, ever, ever getting back together. Like, ever...
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Google's monopoly is busted, handing news a chance card
Everyone wants great search and trustworthy news, so here are some ideas how the judge can achieve both, with some radical thinking...
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