TNW 329: US DOJ Sues Apple For Monopoly Practices - LexisNexis, Beeper, Surface Pro 10

Tech News Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Breaking news as the U.S. Department of Justice sues Apple for illegal smartphone monopoly. Automakers are sharing consumers' driving behaviors with insurance companies. Beeper is back in the news as it refocuses its efforts on delivering an app that brings various chat applications into one singular app. And Microsoft had an event to announce new Surface PCs!

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins Mikah Sargent this week to talk about the breaking news that the U.S. Department of Justice is suing Apple for claims that the company has an illegal monopoly over the smartphone market.
Mikah talks about how U.S. automakers share consumers' driving behaviors and practices with insurance companies with detailed reports.
Emma Roth of The Verge joins the show to talk about how Beeper is refocusing its efforts after it attempted to bring iMessage to Android users through an app that seeks to combine various chat applications into one singular app.
Finally, Zac Bowden of Windows Central discusses Microsoft's unveiling of the new Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 computers.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Jennifer Patterson Toe of The Verge is here to join me and share a very important story of the week.
0:08.8	It's all about the U.S. Department of Justice suing Apple for the claim of illegal monopoly practices regarding
0:17.5	its smartphones.
0:18.5	Then my story of the week is all about how automakers are sharing driver information with data brokers who are then sharing
0:27.2	that information with insurance companies who are then raising the rates of individuals
0:31.9	because of their driving data.
0:35.0	It is a mess and you need to hear about it.
0:37.6	After that, we have Emma Roth of the Verge who joins us to talk about how Beeper, that
0:42.2	app that wanted to bring iMessage to Android, it couldn't
0:46.3	do that so it's back in a whole new way.
0:49.0	And then Zach Bowden of Windows Central stops by to tell us what was announced this morning at the Microsoft
0:56.4	2024 Surface PC event.
1:00.1	It's all of that.
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