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...Polish central bank chief Adam Glapiński told the FT he was seeking a truce with Prime Minister Donald Tusk after an increasingly bitter feud....
...Apple recently won a similar case. That could help Google. Note that Alphabet shares barely budged on the Epic decision....
...Listen to Lex deputy editor Elaine Moore talk to creators, companies and critics about the next era of social media in the FT’s new Tech Tonic podcast series....
...Bubble hunters might be able to make a better case against Apple or Microsoft: they look more expensive than the two advertisers, but without better near-term growth (in Apple’s case, growth is much lower...
...The central issue in the case was whether Google stopped rivals to its Play Store and payment services from gaining traction on Android devices....
...Google’s contracts have also been central to the second trial that the tech giant is currently embroiled in, in a case brought by the US Department of Justice alleging it abused its dominance in the search...
...It has stopped rideshare companies from driving along parts of the central Market Street. So why is the city so welcoming to driverless cars?...
...Nadella also addressed Google’s agreement with Apple, which makes its search engine the default in Apple’s Safari browser. That agreement has emerged as a central aspect of the government’s case....
...In the past month, we dug into the slowdown of Moore’s Law and what it means to the future of the semiconductor industry....
...Elaine Moore Which is a weird one in a way because it’s investing a lot in AI, and yet AI could kind of eliminate their central search business. But Microsoft Bing hasn’t taken over from Google search....
...Enjoy your weekend, Elaine Moore Deputy head of Lex...
...Central to the case will be whether the DoJ can show that Google’s contracts shut out competitors....
...The prevalence of Google’s Chrome browser and the fact that it pays Apple to be the default search engine give it a huge advantage....
...In one sign of how central to its business this has become, Arm revealed in a regulatory filing last month that Apple has signed a new licence that stretches until 2040....
...His comments echo a stark warning he gave last year that the good times were ending as central banks began raising interest rates. Apollo isn’t immune....
...After several decades where the “central processing unit” pioneered by Intel enabled the creation of general-purpose, Swiss Army Knife-style computers such as PCs and smartphones, “the link between hardware...
...Everyone from small start-ups to legacy carmakers to Apple and China’s Baidu were taken with the idea....
...Everyone from SoftBank to Apple was investing in autonomous vehicles. Since then, however, the sector’s fortunes have waned....
...Enjoy the rest of your week, Elaine Moore Deputy head of Lex...
...The Ukraine war will have been the central topic of their conversation in Moscow. The interesting question is how frank their discussion would be....
...In 2020 Epic, the Fortnite game developer, sued Apple for failing to share the rewards its app had brought. The original ruling went in Apple’s favour but this is on appeal....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...Malcolm Moore (@malcolmmoore) Editor, FT Edit Bear with me on this one, but my undoubted favourite story of the year was this fabulous examination of the rise and fall of watercress....
...Bluesky said last year it had received $13mn in funding and it set up as an independent LLC, but it was unclear how it would be financed or monetised....
...JR: That’s true, but I don’t believe the Unreal Engine was central to their legal and/or PR game. It was really about Fortnite....
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