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• South Korea's antitrust regulator said on Sunday it has decided to impose a fine of a combined 19.5 million won ($16,300) on Google, Netflix and three other video streaming services for their unfair business activity over paid subscription.

• Along with the fine, the regulator ordered them to correct their business practice, reports Yonhap news agency.

• They provided falsified information or did not allow subscribers to cancel their membership online in a bid to make it difficult for customers to terminate the contract of using their services, according to the FTC.

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• PriceRunner, which is in the process of being bought by fintech Klarna, said a lawsuit it filed in Sweden aims to make Google pay compensation for the profit it has lost in the UK since 2008, as well as in Sweden and Denmark since 2013.

• Swedish price comparison firm PriceRunner said on Monday it is suing Alphabet-owned Google for about 2.1 billion euros ($2.40 billion), the latest firm to take legal action alleging the search giant manipulated search results.

• PriceRunner is suing Google for €2.1 billion ($2.4 billion) for breaching EU antitrust laws by manipulating search results in favor of their own comparison shopping services.

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• 调查 — Google

  Google spokesperson José Castañeda revealed that it is examining Purdue University's allegations

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• Google has allegedly violated one of Purdue University's patents that detects power management-related bugs within written code.

• Purdue University filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas and is now claiming royalties and an undisclosed amount of money in damages.

• Google spokesperson José Castañeda revealed that it is examining Purdue University's allegations

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• 否认 — Google

  Google claimed that the allegations were “based on inaccurate claims and outdated assertions.”

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• The state’s lawsuit, filed by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, alleged that Google had used unfair and deceptive practices to obtain users’ location data, which it secretly exploited for targeted advertising.

• However, the judge rejected a third accusation that Google deceived users by keeping location data to help sell ads.

• Judge Timothy Thomason of Arizona, said that the allegations that the tech giant deceived users with unclear smartphone location tracking settings should be weighed by a jury.

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• According to the sources, the suit was filed on January 24 in an attempt to annul the KFTC's decision to impose the fine

• The KFTC said Google has hampered market competition by requiring smartphone makers to enter into an "anti-fragmentation agreement (AFA)"

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• 整改 — Google

  Google informed the German authority it would add a "reject all" button to its cookie banners across Europe.

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• A German consumer organization announced on Wednesday it is suing U.S. technology giant Google over its use of cookie banners.

• It has filed its lawsuit with the Berlin Regional Court.

• The design of the cookie banners on the German domain google.de violates national regulations, as well as European Union (EU) guidelines, according to the consumer organization North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).

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• The former recruiter, April Curley alleges that Google systematically underpays and denies advancement opportunities to Black employees because of their race.

• Google Sued for Racial Discrimination Against Black Employees

• Curley filed the lawsuit in the United States at the District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose.

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• 美国司法部重新重视起对谷歌地图的调查，以确定将该服务与其他谷歌软件非法捆绑在一起是否会扼杀竞争。

• The probe is focusing on two components, one is on apps that are provided through infotainment screens in vehicles.

• The U.S. Justice Department has restarted and accelerated a new investigation of Google Maps to determine if the bundling of the service with other Google software violates antitrust laws by stifling competition.

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• As this is only the start of the CMA's investigation, no decision has been made on whether Google or Meta have broken the law.

• CMA and European Commission launch parallel probes into Google and Meta's "Jedi Blue" agreement.

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• The company appears to have changed its "white noise" sound, according to 9to5Google—much to the chagrin of regular users.

• Between the Nest Community page and Reddit, the issue has racked up hundreds of comments in less than a week.

• Google did not immediately respond to PCMag's request for comment.

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• 否认 — Garena spokesperson

  Garena’s spokesperson says to the lip Crafton’s allegations are unfounded.

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• The lawsuit also covers game maker Garena, as well as YouTube.

• Crafton, publisher and developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has filed a lawsuit in the United States against Apple and Google, among others. The lawsuit revolves around Free Fire and Free Fire MAX, which Crafton says infringes the company’s copyrights and is on the app stores.

• Garena’s spokesperson says to the lip Crafton’s allegations are unfounded.

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• 否认 — Garena

  A company spokesperson said, “Krafton’s claims are groundless.”

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• Another day, another lawsuit. Krafton Inc., the maker of the game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” says in a new U.S. lawsuit that a Singapore-based company made rip-off versions of its game, and Apple and Google have refused to stop selling them, reports Reuters.

• Krafton, the developer behind PlayUnknown’s Battlegrounds,” and the maker of PUBG Mobile, last year’s No. 6 top-grossing mobile game on a global basis, is suing the app stores and a rival game maker, Garena, over copyright infringement involving Garena Online’s Free Fire games.

• The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on January 10, 2022.

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• Last week, the French data protection regulator (CNIL) said it has fined Google and Meta-owned Facebook platform a combined €210 million for failing to comply with the country’s data protection act – specifically, for not giving users an easy way to reject tracking cookies.

• The privacy watchdog also ordered the companies to fix the issues within three months, or risk paying a penalty of €100,000 per day of delay.

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• 否认 — Google

  Google calls the lawsuits “frivolous”

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• Today, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled in favor of Sonos, imposing an import ban on a number of Google's hardware products – Nest, Pixel and Chromecast among them

• Firstly, the import ban proposed by the ITC is only for Google hardware products being imported into the US, and the Commission has given the tech giant 60 days to comply before the ban takes place.

• Sonos claimed that Google stole key elements of this technology after a partnership back in 2013

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• 持续披露 — Google

  A Google spokesperson said the company is committing to “further changes and active work with the CNIL”

• 持续披露 — Meta

  a spokesperson for Facebook parent company Meta said it is reviewing the decision and remains “committed to working with relevant authorities”

• 整改 — Google

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• A Google spokesperson said the company is committing to “further changes and active work with the CNIL”, while a spokesperson for Facebook parent company Meta said it is reviewing the decision and remains “committed to working with relevant authorities”.

• France’s data regulator has fined Google €150m and Facebook €60m over their cookie policies.

• The CNIL said today (6 January) that the websites Facebook.com, Google.fr and YouTube.com do not allow users to refuse tracking cookies as easily as accepting them.

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• 否认 — Google

  A Google spokesperson said it does not expect the decision to affect its ability to import or sell its products.

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• The U.S. International Trade Commission affirmed an August decision that Google audio products infringed five Sonos patents and banned Google from importing “networked speaker devices” and devices that can control them like mobile phones and laptops.

• A Google spokesperson said it does not expect the decision to affect its ability to import or sell its products.

• A U.S. trade court barred Google late Thursday from importing products that infringe home-audio company Sonos’s smart-speaker patents.

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• On Wednesday, the tech giant added that it "runs a few experiments that will reach nearly 1% of Google Search users in Australia."

• On Thursday, Australia urged Google to "focus on paying for original content and not on blocking it" after the tech giant revealed it was running "experimental tests" that will limit domestic news content access.

• Google tweaked its algorithm to bury links from several major Australian news websites, The Australian Financial Review reported.

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• The complaint says Google became aware of the security flaw that caused a data breach in February but has failed to inform the public.

• The lawsuit was filed in California federal court on Wednesday and alleges that dozens of third parties may have been able to access personal and medical details of Android users as a result of the flaw.

• 谷歌向DJ提供了第一人称的话术，要求他们吹捧Pixel 4手机。

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• 不过英国最高法院周三裁定诉讼不可行，无法继续。

• 他说谷歌追踪互联网浏览历史记录，获取个人数据，然后用来推送定向广告。