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...While Google operates a technically “open” app ecosystem, licensing Android to smartphone makers which can in theory offer rival stores, Apple has an end-to-end “closed” model where it offers iOS exclusively...
...(Pimco) — The PagerDuty CEO who quoted Martin Luther King in her mass sacking email is v v v sorry....
...But record labels and artists have for years complained that the platform was short-changing the industry by hosting a proliferation of fan videos that used their music without licensing permission....
...Google declined to comment on its lobbying tactics....
...for app store licensing deals and to access Google’s latest operating system in the process of developing smartphones....
...Where all you can do after reading a tweet, or an article, is type the subject into Google and hope there’s more material out there waiting to be read....
...When it unveiled its charge sheet against Google in 2016, the commission alleged that Google imposed licensing conditions for Android that favoured Google products and apps, such as Chrome and Google Play...
...The biggest rise in expenditure came from licensing original content for YouTube, which is trying to build a premium subscription business, and expanding the company’s cloud computing division....
...The search engine has warned its business model in Europe will be threatened by the licensing rules and will restrict people’s ability to know what they are clicking on....
...Microsoft, Oracle and Nokia were among 14 companies that complained to the EU in April 2013, claiming Google unfairly supported Android and its mobile services by offering cut-price licensing and exclusivity...
...It depicts the licensing terms as minimum requirements to ensure Android works smoothly on different devices....
...After a years-long stand-off with the big music companies, YouTube struck fresh licensing agreements last year. Music executives are cautiously optimistic....
...It depicts the licensing terms as minimum requirements to ensure that Android works smoothly on 24,000 different types of devices....
...However, should Apple, Google or Tidal’s playlists catch up, there may be little to prevent customers from switching....
...The Google-owned site has established itself as the go-to place for music videos: almost half of visitors to the platform end up watching a clip from Vevo....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Group, an IPO adviser, and previously part of Google’s IPO team....
...Spotify has added customers at a scorching pace, despite growing competition from technology companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple, signing up 20m new paying customers in the past year....
...Mr Huggers has made no secret of his wish to step out of the shadow of Google — YouTube’s owner. But he insists there is no bad blood....
...Lingering paranoia from the Napster shakeout has made licensing negotiations with labels “slow and tough”, says one streaming executive....
...Meanwhile Amazon and Vevo are also preparing their own paid streaming services, adding to competition from Deezer, SoundCloud, Tidal and Google Play....
...Meanwhile the biggest record labels, weighed down by shrinking album sales, are in a row with YouTube as they negotiate new licensing terms with the site....
...“There’s unlikely to be the big titan v titan litigation that we saw in the smartphone wars.”...
...The biggest uncertainty is an impending decision by the US Copyright Review Board on licensing rates for the next five years....
...Further, the study found that the cool-off interval between the first and second breaker was meaningless, evidenced by an orderly re-open after the cool-off....
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