Judge Amit Mehta produced a 286-page ruling that gave the US government its first significant antitrust win against the tech industry in close to two decades. Key to the decision was the ruling that Google has paid $26bn to ensure that its search engine was placed on smartphones and web browsers as the default option.…
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The following article was written by Tony Chrystopher, Financial Analyst at UFX.com’s Trading Support Center. Your Weekly Trading Review by UFX.com – Sunday, September 3, 2017 Here are some of the major financial events of the past week and how they affected the global currency and commodity markets: EUR/USD fell by -0.42%, closing at $1.1860, while the…
Read moreRich Miner has announced that he is leaving GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) to helm a Google education project. GV has not commented whether this project would be for-profit or not. Miner, who has also not given any details on the project yet, has shared in the past that it was too hard to…
Read moreThe holy grail of many startup companies, tech and otherwise, is the IPO. An IPO, or initial public offering of company stock, has numerous advantages for startups and is done for a variety of reasons including: formally establishing a public valuation for a company, gives early stage shareholders and employees the chance to cash in…
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