Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino was pressed on everything from lawn chair prices to allegations of retaliation while testifying Thursday in the live entertainment giant’s antitrust trial. While on the stand, Rapino faced questions about Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s business model and industry dominance. Trying to portray the company as an unparalleled powerhouse able to … Read more
Until now, most mobile phone companies have worked to ensure their phones won’t start fires. (Occasional Samsung devices excepted, of course.) But this week at Mobile World Congress, we found a company that dared to go in a different direction. Oukitel’s WP63 rugged smartphone includes a built-in fire starter, and this is what it looks … Read more
John Abbamondi had orders to let the CEO of Ticketmaster down easy. In April 2021, Abbamondi was the CEO of BSE Global, the company that ran Brooklyn arena the Barclays Center. BSE Global’s existing Ticketmaster contract would expire at the end of September, and Abbamondi and his team had evaluated proposals from SeatGeek, AXS, and … Read more
Netflix projected insouciance. “We’ve always been disciplined,” Sarandos and Greg Peters, the other C.E.O., said in… The post Ellison Media Expansion: Latest News & Acquisitions appeared first on Archynetys. Source link
A judge is questioning whether Epic Games and Google are settling their long-running antitrust fight partly because of a previously unannounced partnership involving the Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and Android. In a hearing in San Francisco today, the court revealed that Epic and Google have struck a new deal that apparently includes “joint product development, joint … Read more
Microsoft’s changes in response to the Digital Markets Act already included allowing Windows machines in the regions it covers to uninstall Edge and remove Bing results from Windows search, but now the list is growing in some meaningful ways. New features announced Monday for Microsoft Windows users in the European Economic Area (the EU plus … Read more
The UFC has been served with two new antitrust lawsuits filed by fighters while another antitrust lawsuit continues to play its way out in court. The latest antitrust lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Nevada on Thursday is led by former UFC light heavyweight Phil Davis. Berger Montague—the same law firm that represented … Read more
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Firefox could be put out of business should a court implement all the Justice Department’s proposals to restrict Google’s search monopoly, an executive for the browser owner Mozilla testified Friday. “It’s very frightening,” Mozilla CFO Eric Muhlheim said. The DOJ wants to bar Google from paying to be the default search engine in third-party browsers … Read more
During Meta’s antitrust trial today, lawyers representing Apple, Google, and Snap each expressed irritation with Meta over the slides it presented on Monday that The Verge found to contain easy-to-remove redactions. Attorneys for both Apple and Snap called the errors “egregious,” with Apple’s representative indicating that it may not be able to trust Meta with … Read more