Europe hits Google with record antitrust fine

NEWSBYTE The European Commission (EC) has hit Google with its largest ever fine, €4.3 billion ($5 billion), for antitrust violations relating to its Android mobile operating system. The EC said that Google had used Android, the world’s most popular mobile OS, to unfairly strengthen its dominance in search by forcing phone makers to pre-install both Google…

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Russian indictments show that the U.S. needs federal oversight of election security – TechCrunch

Phoebe Wong is executive director of EqualCitizens.US, a democracy reform non profit based in Washington DC. She was formerly a senior economist at the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress and consultant at the World Bank. President Trump’s Helsinki summit with Vladimir Putin, on the heels of twelve Russian intelligence officials indicted for hacking the 2016…