Published on: 2025-04-19 03:37:57
is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. The government should be scrutinizing Meta’s power. Unfortunately, its legal attack isn’t cutting to the heart of what keeps Meta big. This week, I spent three days in a Washington, DC courtroom watching Mark Zuckerberg testify. He was there defending his company from being broken up by the Federal Trade Commission, which is seeking to unwind his acquisitions of Instagram and What
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Douglas Rissing/Getty Images In the thick of economic uncertainty and high interest rates, adjustable-rate mortgages are making a comeback. ARMs offer cheaper fixed interest rates for the initial five, seven or 10 years, giving borrowers more options for homeownership. After that introductory period, the loan has a variable interest rate that could go up or down, depending on market conditions. The share of loan applications for ARMs recently rose to its highest level in 17 months, according
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Getty Image/ Zooey Liao/ CNET Mortgage rates are bouncing around, though not because of inflation data or job numbers. Financial markets (stocks and bonds) are being shaken by President Donald Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs. An impending trade war is causing a ripple effect on everything from Treasury bond yields to consumer prices to mortgage rates. I'm not an economist, but I've been in the real estate business for more than two decades. Tariffs, or duties on imported goods, can drive u
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In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images Google's antitrust woes are continuing to mount, just as the company tries to brace for a future dominated by artificial intelligence. On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that Google held illegal monopolies in online advertising markets due to its positio
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Google's advertising business, which generates key revenue for the tech giant, is an illegal monopoly, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. In the ruling, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema wrote that Google violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, a landmark antitrust law from 1890. Google broke the law "by willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power in the open-web display publisher ad server market and the open-web display ad exchange market," Brinkema wrote. The ruling marks the second m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 03:07:22
A federal judge ruled today that Google is a monopolist in some parts of the online advertising market, marking the second case in a year where the company was found to have violated US antitrust law. Last August, a federal judge ruled that Google was maintaining an illegal monopoly in search. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia determined that Google illegally monopolized parts of its advertising technology business to dominate the programmatic a
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Google and the Department of Justice faced off again in a trial regarding whether Google has a monopoly in the advertising technology market. The trial started last fall in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, and on April 17th, 2025, Judge Brinkema ruled that Google did act illegally to acquire and maintain monopoly power in online advertising. The DOJ argued that Google unfairly locked up the market for ad tech tools that publishers and advertisers rely on to monetize their websites and m
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Grace Cary/Getty Images/CNET The economic headlines are full of recession indicators, from tariffs and a potential trade war to wild stock market swings. With mortgage rates all over the map, some homebuyers are wondering if there might be a silver lining to a downturn -- namely, lower mortgage rates and home prices. I've worked in real estate for more than 20 years, and I've seen my share of market fluctuations, from boom times to full-blown crashes, like in 2008. When it comes to buying a ho
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Getty Image/ Zooey Liao/ CNET Mortgage rates are bouncing around, though not because of inflation data or job numbers. Financial markets (stocks and bonds) are being shaken by President Donald Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs. An impending trade war is causing a ripple effect on everything from Treasury bond yields to consumer prices to mortgage rates. I'm not an economist, but I've been in the real estate business for more than two decades. Tariffs, or duties on imported goods, can drive u
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In this article AMD NVDA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote for the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2025. Brittany Hosea-small | Reuters Technology stocks dropped Wednesday, led by a 10% plunge in Nvidia , as the chipmaking sector signaled that President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff plans could hamper semiconductor demand. Nvidia revealed in a filing Tuesday that it take a $5.5
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Tharon Green/CNET Despite President Trump's decision to implement a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for most countries, which calmed some nerves, mortgage rates aren't likely to fall anytime soon. You can blame disarray in the bond market. Treasury bond yields are directly linked to mortgage rates; when bond yields rise, so do borrowing costs on home loans. Trump's April 2 announcement to slap sweeping tariffs on US trading partners not only sparked a massive plunge in stocks — it also led
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Startups attracted $91.5 billion in venture capital funding in Q1, according to the latest report from data provider PitchBook. This figure not only exceeds the previous quarter’s allocation by 18.5% but also represents the second-highest quarterly investment in the last decade. Despite this seemingly positive news, Kyle Stanford, lead U.S. venture capital analyst at PitchBook, appears to be the most bearish about VC dealmaking since he started covering this market 11 years ago. The source of
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Westend61/Getty Images The Trump administration's indecision over implementing tariffs has caused market turmoil, panic buying, and price increases across the tech market. While some companies appear to have won a break from the White House for tariffs on consumer electronics, this situation won't last forever. So, could secondhand tech be a solution to exorbitant prices? On Wednesday, refurbished electronics marketplace Back Market announced a partnership with device repair provider iFixit "t
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How often do you replace your laptop? Every five to seven years? Maybe more? You probably don't wait as long to upgrade your phone, but that's what the DIY supplier iFixit and the refurbished device retailer Back Market want to change. Ahead of Earth Day on April 22, the two companies have partnered to launch a marketing campaign that encourages consumers to replace their phones every five years instead of the national average of two and a half to three years. The responsibility of keeping old
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Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR According to multiple reports, Apple did surprisingly well in the first quarter of 2025, a period when Samsung usually rules the roost with its flagship S series. Counterpoint Research reports that Apple actually beat Samsung to take the top spot in the worldwide smartphone market for the first time ever in Q1. Other research firms beg to differ but don’t deny Apple’s exceptional performance over the last three months. Every quarter, market analysts an
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LONDON — Google is being sued for £5 billion ($6.6 billion) in potential damages in the U.K. over allegations that the U.S. tech giant abused its "near-total dominance" in the online search market to drive up prices. A class action lawsuit filed Wednesday in the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal claims that Google abused its position to restrict competing search engines and, in turn, bolster its dominant position in the market and make itself the only viable destination for online search adverti
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Introduction Between May 2023 and March 2025, Tract attempted to build a venture-backed company to address Britain’s housing crisis by improving the planning permission process. After raising a £744,000 pre-seed round in April 2024, we explored several business models: a site-sourcing tool for developers (Tract Source), a free land-appraisal tool for landowners (Attract), becoming tech-enabled land promoters ourselves, and finally, an AI-powered platform to assist with drafting planning documen
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is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Making Instagram a separate company. Buying Snapchat. Wiping everyone’s Facebook friends. Creating a feed of only ads. These were some of the ideas that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered over the years as he built his social media empire. Over the past two days, he talked about
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This article was ported from my old Wordpress blog here, If you see any issues with the rendering or layout, please send me an email I have a little secret: I don’t like the terminology, notation, and style of writing in statistics. I find it unnecessarily complicated. This shows up when trying to read about Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Take, for example, the abstract to the Markov Chain Monte Carlo article in the Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a techniq
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ChatGPT 4.1 is now rolling out, and it's a significant leap from GPT 4o, but it fails to beat the benchmark set by Google Gemini. Yesterday, OpenAI confirmed that developers with API access can try as many as three new models: GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano. According to the benchmarks, these models are far better than the existing GPT‑4o and GPT‑4o mini, particularly in coding. For example, GPT‑4.1 scores 54.6% on SWE-bench Verified, which is better than GPT-4o by 21.4% and 26.6% ov
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Design software startup Figma announced Tuesday it has filed its confidential paperwork for an IPO. We won’t know more until that paperwork becomes public, which, best-case scenario would be in about a month. However, with the stock market in groundhog mode — seeing its shadow with every new gyration of the Trump Administration’s trade policies and tariffs — pursuing an IPO right now, even at an exploratory level, is surprising. Klarna and StubHub, the two potentially blockbuster tech IPOs that
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Landmark Admin has issued an update to its investigation of a cyberattack it suffered in May 2024, increasing the number of impacted individuals to 1.6 million. Landmark is a Texas-based third-party administrator (TPA) handling policy accounting, regulatory reporting, reinsurance support, and IT systems for major insurers nationwide like Liberty Bankers Life and American Benefit Life. In October 2024, the company warned that it detected suspicious activity on its networks on May 13th, 2024. T
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Netflix plans to reach a market capitalization of $1 trillion by 2030, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported this week, citing anonymous people who attended an “annual business review meeting” that Netflix held in March. Netflix's current market capitalization is nearly $400 billion. Netflix is reportedly partnering its market cap goals with plans to double revenue within the same time frame. For 2024, Netflix reported $39 billion in revenue, meaning the company aims to raise its annual revenu
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI agent marketplaces have become ubiquitous as enterprises look for ready-made agents they can customize and find agents for most of their use cases. ServiceNow, Google, Writer, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are just a few of the companies that have or recently announced platforms where customers can choose pre-built agents and then deploy them to their organizati
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James Watson once said his road to the 1962 Nobel Prize began in Naples, Italy. At a conference in 1951, he met Maurice Wilkins, the biophysicist with whom he and Francis Crick shared the Nobel for discovering the double-helix structure of DNA. Meeting Wilkins was when he “first realized that DNA might be soluble,” Watson said. “So my life was changed.” That’s a nice anecdote for the science textbooks. But there’s “a tawdry first act to this operetta,” writes Howard Markel in his new book, The
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Bookmarking and snapshotting websites made easy Create self-contained snapshots for every bookmark you save. Access & share previously visited pages without worrying about modifications or availibilty.
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Temu completely shut off Google Shopping ads in the U.S. on April 9, with its App Store ranking subsequently plummeting from a typical third or fourth position to 58th in just three days. The company’s impression share, which measures how often their ads appear compared to eligibility, dropped sharply before disappearing completely from advertiser auction data by April 12. The timing coincided with the Trump administration’s hardened stance on Chinese imports, raising tariffs to 125% while mai
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 09:39:00
Mortgage rates aren't likely to fall anytime soon, even with President Trump's decision to implement a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for most countries. You can blame disarray in the bond market. Treasury yields are directly linked to mortgage rates; when bond yields rise, so do borrowing costs on home loans. Trump's April 2 announcement to slap sweeping tariffs on US trading partners not only sparked a massive plunge in stocks — it also led to a sell-off of government-backed bonds, which
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Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming that Google’s latest Gemini model surpassed Anthropic’s flagship Claude model in the original Pokémon video game trilogy. Reportedly, Gemini had reached Lavendar Town in a developer’s Twitch stream; Claude was stuck at Mount Moon as of late February. But what the post failed to mention is that Gemini had an advantage. As users on Reddit pointed out, the developer who maintains the Gemini str
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Anthony Denier, CEO fo Webull, speaks during an interview on CNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 1, 2022. Shares of Webull soared nearly 375% on Monday, the second day on the market for the stock-trading app, which completed its merger last week with SK Growth Opportunities Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The rally gives Webull a market cap of almost $30 billion. Webull competes with Robinhood , Charles Schwab and E-Trade.
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