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Facebook and Google agreed to help each other out if they came under antitrust scrutiny, lawsuit alleges Facebook and Google agreed to help each other out if they came under antitrust scrutiny, lawsuit alleges Isobel Asher HamiltonDec 22, 2020, 16:58 IST Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Vanity Fair Last week a coalition of state attorneys general filed a heavily redacted antitrust lawsuit against Google over its ads business. The Wall Street Journal obtained an u...

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Vanity Fair Last week a coalition of state attorneys general filed a heavily redacted antitrust lawsuit against Google over its ads business. The Wall Street Journal obtained an unredacted draft of the lawsuit, revealing it alleges Google and Facebook agreed to help each other if a deal theyd struck ever faced antitrust scrutiny. The suit alleges the two tech giants struck an illegal advertising deal which gave Facebook preferentia...

This Week in Apps: App Store privacy labels, Facebook criticizes Apple over ad targeting, Twitter kills Periscope Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in global consumer spend in 2019. Not including third-party Chinese app stores, iOS and Android users downloaded 130 billion apps in 2020....

Apple CEO Tim Cook hit back at Facebook in a tweet on Thursday night  We believe users should have the choice over the data that is being collected about them and how its used, he wrote  It came after Facebook took out a series of newspaper ads slamming Apple on Wednesday  The social media giant says that upcoming iPhone privacy changes will hurt small businesses that rely on targeted ads   At the crux of the issue is changes to Apples iOS 14 that will require users to give permission in o...

Googles Star Wars Facebook pact is latest antitrust target Mark Bergen, Bloomberg News It reads like a grand conspiracy of the nerds. On Wednesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google. At its center is a bold claim: Google colluded with archrival Facebook Inc. in an illegal deal to manipulate auctions for online advertising, an industry the two companies dominate. Google named the secret pact after a Star Wars character. “Any c...

It’s been quite the year for Rich Eisen and his long-established radio show,  The Rich Eisen Show. Launched in 2014 on Audience Network and later expanded to Fox Sports Radio, that show wrapped up on Audience in February (thanks to the shift of that channel to an HBO Max preview) and on Fox Sports Radio in April. Eisen signed a deal to take his show to NBCSN in April, though, and while that deal was initially just through early June, August saw a new deal where Eisen’s show would return to...

Apple versus Facebook war over iOS privacy norms intensifies Share Via Email Apple versus Facebook war over iOS privacy norms intensifies The Facebook-Apple war over privacy norms has been intensifying. On Thursday the social networking giant issued full-page newspaper ads once again, claiming that Apples iOS 14 privacy changes "will change the internet as we know it." The new Facebook ad said that Apple privacy policies will force websites and blogs "to start charging you subscription fees" o...

Unity Software (NYSE:U) to bolster its ad and game platforms. Unity will add support for the Snap Kit SDK (software development kit) to its game engine -- which powers over half of the worlds mobile, PC, and console games -- to its Asset Store. The inclusion will enable its developers to add Snapchat logins to their games, advertise them, and promote them via screenshots, stickers, and AR lenses. Snap’s Audience Network, which lets advertisers purchase ads on third-party apps and websites, wi...

Getty Images Small businesses and Facebook may always be strange bedfellows, but thats especially true in the case of Apples upcoming privacy update. Some time in the new year, the iPhone maker will release a new operating system--iOS 14--that will require users to grant tracking permission to every single app they download. Given the choice, most people wont do it, out of privacy concerns. The news sent Facebook to the mats this week, as the social media giant went so far as taking out ...

Snap Reaches Partnership With Unity on in-Game Ads, Game Development The cross-platform engine powers 53% of the top 1,000 grossing mobile titles As of June 30, Unity Ads reported more than 22.9 billion monthly global ad impressions Unity December 17, 2020 Cross-platform game engine Unity entered into a partnership with Snap Inc. that gives advertisers on Snapchat access to Unity’s ads inventory and brings Snapchat technology to game developers via Snap Kit.