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TREND | 05 Mar 2026, 08:08AM

Judge's 'bias' forced me to pay full price for Twitter, says Elon Musk

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The jury is hearing claims by Twitter investors that Musk defrauded them by manipulating the platform's share price so he could acquire it more cheaply

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TREND | 05 Mar 2026, 07:30AM

Meta CEO Zuckerberg says in deposition that he resisted censoring platforms

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Jurors in a bellwether trial about the impacts of social media on teenagers and children on Wednesday watched a deposition of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that explores what the architects of Facebook and Instagram knew from internal research about the negative experiences by young users and how the company responded since its early years. Prosecutors are alleging that Meta violated state consumer protection laws in failing to disclose what it knew about the dangers of addiction to social media as well as child sexual exploitation on the company's platforms, while attorneys for Meta say the company discloses risks, makes efforts to weed out harmful content and experiences, and acknowledges that some bad material still gets through its safety net. In pretrial depositions recorded last year, prosecutors confronted Zuckerberg with internal company communications and emails from platform users spanning back to the infancy of Facebook in 2008 that discuss "problematic" and addictive use of ..

Apple's 'big week' launches pair of $599 devices aimed at budget buyers

Business Standard | 05 Mar 2026, 07:21AM

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TREND | 05 Mar 2026, 06:56AM

Google settles with Epic Games with offer to cut app store commissions

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Google will lower the lucrative fees imposed on its Android app store and offer a way for rival options to gain its stamp of approval, ending a bruising legal battle that led to one of several rulings condemning its tactics as an illegal monopoly. The proposed changes filed on Wednesday with a federal court in San Francisco mark the latest twist in a case that began in August 2020 when video game maker Epic Games filed an antitrust case seeking make it easier for alternative payment options to compete against Google's Play Store system, which charges 15 per cent to 30 per cent commissions on a wide variety of in-app transactions. Google's concessions come five months after the US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the company's attempt to overturn a federal judge's order requiring a far more extensive overhaul of the Play Store following a 2023 trial that culminated in a jury declaring the setup an illegal monopoly. Backed into a legal corner, Google is now prepared to...