Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world China has revived antitrust investigations into Google and Nvidia, while considering a new probe against Intel, as Beijing looks for leverage in talks with US President Donald Trump. China’s State Administration for Market […]
Taking a look back at this week’s news and headlines across the Android world, including Galaxy S25 Ultra reviews, Pixel 9a pricing, China’s growing market, Google Play Protect updates, Nothing (3a) launch, permanent notifications, and the return of Pebble. Android Circuit is here to remind you of a few of the many discussions around Android […]
The Gulf of Mexico as seen on Google Maps. Source: Google Maps Google said Monday it will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” in Google Maps after the Trump administration updates its “official government sources.” The company also said it will start using the name “Mount McKinley” for the […]
New Play Store warning NurPhoto via Getty Images Google’s new updates have made Android safer and more secure than ever before. This week’s identity check update, protecting your data even if someone has your PIN, is just the latest advance. And Android 15 — now finally making its way onto Samsungs — does finally narrow […]
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Britain’s competition regulator on Thursday launched an investigation into Apple and Google’s huge mobile ecosystems to determine whether the tech titans are in breach of the U.K.’s strict new digital competition rules. The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said it was opening dual probes into both U.S. tech […]
Apple and Google removed TikTok from their app stores Saturday night, complying with a law requiring China’s ByteDance to divest the social app or see it face an effective ban in the U.S. The Apple App Store and the Google Play store’s removal of TikTok means people in the U.S. can no longer download the […]
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Say hello to 2025—you will be tracked. getty Updated on January 11 with further information on Google’s new mobile privacy challenge in the U.S. courts, and parallels to its controversial digital fingerprinting now making a return. An ironic spat this week in the world of big tech. Google attacked Microsoft for “its long history of […]
The 1976 movie All the President’s Men perhaps provided one of the best three-word investing strategies around: “Follow the money.” No, the film didn’t use the phrase in the context of investing. However, the best stocks tend to generate the most money in terms of revenue, profit, and free cash flow. Following the money can […]
The people overseeing the security of Google’s Chrome browser explicitly forbid third-party extension developers from trying to manipulate how the browser extensions they submit are presented in the Chrome Web Store. The policy specifically calls out search-manipulating techniques such as listing multiple extensions that provide the same experience or plastering extension descriptions with loosely related […]
