Google loses its massive antitrust case against the DOJ

A federal district court ruled Monday that Google engaged in monopolistic behavior when it paid to supply the default internet search engine on other tech companies’ mobile devices, handing a win to the Justice Department.

Google paid $26.3 billion to other companies, mainly Apple and Samsung, during 2021, Bloomberg reports. Those payments essentially restri

How to pick tech stocks when the market is plummeting

This story originally appeared in The Technology Letter and is republished here with permission.

The market turmoil that has rocked tech stocks the past month, driving down the Nasdaq Composite Index nearly 8%, feels a lot to me like when I started the TL20 group of stocks

DOJ vows to protect against election interference by providing ‘actionable intelligence’ to social media platforms

The Justice Department remains committed to sharing with social media companies information that it picks up about efforts by foreign governments to influence this year’s elections, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco told a l

The Biden administration is betting this CHIPS Act program can revitalize communities from the ground up

Can a burst of multimillion-dollar federal grants help revitalize even the most economically stagnant communities in America? The Biden administration is betting on it.

On Monday, officials from the Department of Commerce announced the first six recipients to receive grants through the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Distressed Area Recompete Pilot Program. Part of the

Peacock is the real winner at the Paris Olympics

The Summer Olympics in Paris have brought medals to superstars like Simone Biles and new fan favorites like Korean shooter Kim Ye-ji, but one of the biggest winners may be NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock.

While th

Why Zillow Gone Wild is being sued for alleged copyright infringement

It’s been quite the run for Zillow Gone Wild, the meme-mad social media account that highlights amazing (and outlandish) homes for sale across the United States. Created by former BuzzFeed writer Samir Mezrahi in December 2020 as a pandemic-era hobby, Zillow Gone Wild has now parlayed internet virality into a reality series on HGTV.

But Zillow Gone Wild’s success story could come to a grinding halt, thanks to

Google’s web cache is going away. Here are 3 free replacements

Heads-up: One of Google’s most useful and also underappreciated features is on the brink of extinction.

I’m talkin’ about the cache-calling system that quietly existed within Google Search for years—typically buried within an inconspicuous menu inside your search results.

That system let you access a snapshot of any website from the recent past, which was an invaluable way to peek back at a site if it had just undergone some changes or even gone offline. After some sharp-

What Amazon’s NBA deal means for the future of sports media rights

It was not exactly a fast break. When the NBA last week officially spurned Warner Bros. Discovery’s attempts to continue a 40-year partnership between the league and WBD subsidiary, TNT Sports, opting instead for a deal with Amazon Prime, it was the end of a long, slow,

Netflix plans compared: how to best balance price and features

I don’t mean to brag, but I’ve gotten pretty awesome at jumping back and forth between Netflix rate plans.

Why? Because they keep going up and I keep throttling down. I’m a cheapskate.

But I also have three kids, and their collective interest in Netflix—which ebbs and flows—determines which plan I need to subscribe to in order to keep them all happy.

And while I can assure you that Netflix will inevitably raise its rates at some point in the future, here’s what


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