Published on: 2025-04-22 22:55:42
Google is starting to have a monopoly on getting called out for having a monopoly. For the second time in under one year, the tech giant has been deemed to be operating an illegal monopoly, this time for its online advertising technology. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a 115-page ruling on Thursday that found Google violated antitrust laws to establish a firm hold over the online advertising space, allowing the company to charge higher
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 21:45:00
Google's advertising business, a key piece of revenue for the tech giant, is an illegal monopoly, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled on Thursday. In the memorandum opinion, the court writes that Google has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, a landmark antitrust law from 1890. The ruling says 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." When asked for comment,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 02:43:19
Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules Just now Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images A US judge has ruled tech giant Google has a monopoly in online advertising technology. The US Department of Justice, along with 17 US states, sued Google, arguing the tech giant was illegally dominating the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where. This is the second antitrust case Google has lost in a year, after it was ru
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 10:47:46
Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, adding to legal troubles that could reshape the $1.88 trillion company and alter its power over the internet. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a ruling that Google had broken the law to build its dominance over the largely invisible system of technology that places advertisements on pages across the web. The Justice
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 22:09:00
In brief: The Middle-Earth games from the recently closed studio Monolith are largely known for the unique Nemesis system, which procedurally generated new enemy behavior based on the player's actions. Critics praised Monolith for its creativity, but a former Warner Bros executive recently revealed that the design actually emerged from a very pragmatic goal – discouraging players from trading their games in. In a recent video that was quickly removed, former WB Games vice president Laura Fryer
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In brief: The Middle-Earth games from the recently closed studio Monolith are largely known for the unique Nemesis system, which procedurally generated new enemy behavior based on the player's actions. Critics praised Monolith for its creativity, but a former Warner Bros executive recently revealed that the design actually emerged from a very pragmatic goal – discouraging players from trading their games in. In a recent video that was quickly removed, former WB Games vice president Laura Fryer
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is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. When Princess Mononoke first debuted back in 1997, it marked a major turning point for Studio Ghibli. The studio had already dabbled in computer-generated imagery and digital compositing with films like Isao Takahata’s Pom Poko and Yoshifumi Kondō’s Whisper of the Heart. But Mononoke was the first instance of Ghibli really embracing C
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Anime fans have long enjoyed the wide array of Studio Ghibli films, each offering unique, whimsical tales and awe-inspiring hand-drawn artwork. To celebrate the studio‘s 40th anniversary, Ghibli and Gkids are bringing back one of their most acclaimed feature films, Princess Mononoke, in IMAX with a stunning new 4k restoration. Princess Mononoke, written and directed by famed animator Hayao Miyazaki, follows young warrior Ashitaka as he adventures in search of a cure to his life-threatening curs
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Reality Games has closed a $4.7 million seed round to accelerate the development of its location-based real-world Monopoly game. The title is powered by big data, AI, and geolocation technology. This funding marks a milestone in bringing the iconic Monopoly brand into the hands of more mobile players worldwide. It aims to transform how they interact with real-world properties and digital assets. The funding comes from a combination of angel investors and strategic backers, including Republic a
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"This is the first release of Framework Mono from its new home at Winehq. It includes work from the past 5 years that was never included in a stable release because no stable branch had been created in that time. Highlights are native support for ARM64 on macOS and many improvements to windows forms for X11." Last year Microsoft donated the Mono Project to Wine for its stewardship under the WineHQ umbrella. Today marks the Framework Mono 6.14 release as the first major Mono release in five year
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To put these detectors to the test, we took to the lab and built a test rig designed to measure each unit's response time to varying concentrations of carbon monoxide, specifically at 250 ppm and 400 ppm. Our goal was to determine each detector's respective effectiveness at detecting potentially hazardous levels of carbon monoxide. To declare our winners, we also took into account features that add to the overall user experience, performance and cost-efficiency of each unit. For the 250 ppm con
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Hasbro announced a new version of Monopoly that simplifies gameplay by replacing cash and the banker with a mobile app that handles all of the game’s transactions. With Monopoly App Banking, a smartphone or tablet takes over the role of banker and keeps track of every player’s money and properties. It will make the game more accessible to younger
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In context: Monolith was founded in 1994 by Bryan Bouwman, Brian Goble, and several others, when when DOS was still the operating system of choice for PC games. Over the years, the studio developed successful series such as Blood, No One Lives Forever, F.E.A.R., Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, and, of course, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. Thanks to a sudden "strategic change in direction," Warner Bros has shuttered the studio. Warner Bros recently confirmed the closure of three gaming studios,
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Game studio Monolith, part of Warner Bros. Games until yesterday's multi-studio shutdown, had a notable track record across more than 30 years, having made Blood, No One Lives Forever, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, F.E.A.R., and, most recently, the Lord of the Rings series, Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War. Those games, derived from J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction, had a "Nemesis System," in which the enemies that beat the player or survive a battle with them can advance in level, develop distinct s
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Warner Bros Discovery made sweeping cuts to its games division today, closing three studios and ending development on its planned Wonder Woman project. Monolith Productions, Player First Games and WB Games San Diego will be shuttered due to a “disappointing 2024” for WB's gaming business, according to an internal memo from JB Perrette, the company's CEO and president of global streaming and games. Bloomberg broke the news of the restructuring. Monolith Productions made two well-regarded Lord of
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In Brief Edtech company Chegg has sued Google claiming that the tech giant’s AI summaries of search results have hurt Chegg’s traffic and revenue. In the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Chegg accuses Google of unfair competition — specifically reciprocal dealing, monopoly maintenance, and unjust enrichment. Google, Chegg claims, forces companies to supply their content in order to be included in Google Search, unfairly exercising its monopoly power in searc
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