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Google’s Bid to Dismiss Antitrust Suit Over Maps Met With Contention
 |  Feb 13, 2024

Google is fighting tooth and nail to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit concerning its Maps product. The lawsuit, filed in California, accuses the tech behemoth of coercing users to eschew competing...

Google Merging Maps And Waze Teams To Cut Costs
 |  Dec 8, 2022

Google is reportedly merging two of its mapping teams under pressure to reduce costs. The tech giant will combine the team overseeing its mapping service Waze with workers handling its Maps feature, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (Dec. 8). The move comes near the end of a year that has seen other Big Tech […]

Focus On Innovation: A Review Of The Taiwan Fair Trade Commission’s Investigation On Google Maps
 |  Jul 17, 2016

By Su-Wan Wang & Elizabeth Xiao-Ru Wang – The Taiwanese Competition Authority has recently confronted issues surrounding Google’s search practices. A number of independent providers of digital map programs complained to the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission (“TFTC”) about Google’s search result algorithms. These firms alleged that Google’s search results gave Google Maps favorable placement on […]

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