France slaps Google with giant fine
The French government has placed a 150 million Euro fine on Google for placing unpredictable restrictions on their ad services. The government said that since Google controls most of the internet search market, everyone needs to have equal access to their ad services. This fine came after a four-year-long investigation into the company.
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Garmin is slowly coming back online after a massive ransomware hack
Five days after a massive ransomware attack, some of Garmin's services are beginning to come back online. Sam Curry, chief security officer of cybersecurity company Cybereason, said the ransomware attack on Garmin was "crippling," and called it "the corporate equivalent of a heart attack." "The longer Garmin is offline, the cost of recovery increases and could cost tens of millions of dollars more," he said.
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Zuckerberg, Pichai, Cook and Bezos' antitrust hearing officially postponed
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TikTok brings Google and Facebook executives to help expansion plans
TikTok, The Chinese-owned video-sharing app, which already employs 1,400 people in the U.S., has hired dozens of staff from Google and Facebook including several high-profile executives to help the company expand rapidly within the region. TikTok and Facebook declined to comment. Worldwide, TikTok employs 172 ex-Googlers and 165 ex-Facebookers, according to an analysis on LinkedIn
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