Lucas Nolan

6 days ago | breitbart.com | Lucas Nolan

Bloomberg reports that U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema has delivered a mixed ruling in the ad tech antitrust case against Google, finding that the company violated antitrust law in the markets for advertising exchanges and ad server tools used by websites to sell ad space. However, the judge did not find Google to be a monopoly in the market for tools used by advertisers to buy display ads.

1 week ago | breitbart.com | Lucas Nolan

The Wall Street Journal reports that tech billionaire and DOGE advisor Elon Musk, who publicly advocates for increasing birth rates to save civilization, has privately established an elaborate framework for managing relationships with the mothers of his children, according to recent court documents and testimony from Ashley St. Clair, who says Musk fathered her child.

1 week ago | breitbart.com | Lucas Nolan

Bloomberg reports that Sheryl Sandberg, the former COO of Meta and Mark Zuckerberg’s longtime second in command, took the stand as a key witness for the FTC. The agency is arguing that Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 gave the company an illegal monopoly on the social networking industry and is seeking to undo those deals. As Meta’s second-in-command at the time of the acquisitions, Sandberg played a crucial role in the company’s business strategy.

1 week ago | breitbart.com | Lucas Nolan

Ars Technica reports that 4chan, the online imageboard notorious for its uncensored content, anonymity, and memes that take over social media, has been mostly unreachable since Monday evening following what security researchers are calling a “pretty comprehensive own.” The site appears to have fallen victim to a hack that may have compromised its databases, source code, and user information.

1 week ago | breitbart.com | Lucas Nolan

CNBC reports that a class action lawsuit filed Wednesday in the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal claims that Google abused its position to restrict competing search engines and bolster its dominant position in the market, making itself the only viable destination for online search advertising. The suit is being brought on behalf of hundreds of thousands of UK-based organizations that used Google’s search advertising services from January 2011 up until when the claim was filed.