EU opens antitrust probe into Google’s massive advertising business
NY Post
The European Union opened a formal antitrust probe into Google’s lucrative advertising business, signaling it will scrutinize whether the search giant is abusing its increasingly outsize market power.
The European Commission, the legislative branch of the EU that is overseeing the investigation, said Tuesday is considering whether Google has broken EU rules by favoring its own online advertising services over competitors. It’s also probing if Google is “distorting competition” by restricting third-party access to user data for advertising while keeping such data for its own use. “We are concerned that Google has made it harder for rival online advertising services to compete,” European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager said in a statement.
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s.
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.