antitrust
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What Does Epic Games Hope to Gain From Its Lawsuit Against Apple and Google?
In what could possibly be described as a brilliant antitrust set-up, Epic Games is suing Apple and Google for removing its Fortnite game from the iOS App Store and Google Play store, respectively.
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Epic Games Is Swinging For The Fences
The billionaires are fighting. But it’s not a Twitter slap fight between VC goons this time. Nope: The biggest company in the world is getting slapped with a lawsuit filed by an absolute goliath of the video game world. And because we’re all cooped up in our homes worrying about surviving the new school year and golden…
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Movie Theatres Can’t Catch a Break as U.S. Judge Hands More Control to Major Studios
Movie theatres have been royally screwed by the global pandemic, and in the latest blow, a U.S. federal judge has given the go-ahead to axe the 71-year-old Paramount Consent Decrees, which should elicit shrieks of horror for the four of you who have any idea what that is.
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The Three Biggest Lies Google and Facebook Spouted About Your Privacy Before Congress
The landmark antitrust hearing earlier this week had a little bit of everything: tantrums over mandated masks, questions about cancel culture, and, of course, diapers dot com. And while a lot of us here might’ve predicted some of the turns that unfolded over the six and a half ungodly hours of CEO-grilling, the one thing…