Tue. 06/22 – More EU Trouble For Google

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🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Another antitrust investigation formally opened against Google in Europe. Facebook’s Oculus ad partner thinks better of the experiment. Stephen Spielberg decides that Netflix’s money is as green as anybody’s. Ransomware gangs are abandoning bitcoin. And Amazon, at least, still believes in autonomous vehicles. Sponsors: KiwiCo.com/ride for first month free NordVPN.com/ride coupon code ride Links: EU opens antitrust probe into Google’s advertising business (Financial Times) Resolution Games Pulls Blaston Out Of Facebook Ad Test (Upload) Entire London Underground to receive mobile coverage by end of 2024 (The Verge) Tinder lets people add videos to their dating profiles (Engadget) Epic Games releases free anti-cheat and voice chat services for developers (The Verge) Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners, Netflix Forge Film Deal in Sign of Changing Hollywood (Variety) Monero emerges as crypto of choice for cybercriminals (Financial Times) Amazon Snaps Up Option to Buy Stake in AI Truck-Driving Startup (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.9	Another antitrust investigation formally open against Google in Europe.
0:13.2	Facebook's Oculus ad partner thinks better of the ads experiment.
0:17.4	Stephen Spielberg decides that Netflix's money is as green as anybody's.
0:21.7	Ransomware gangs are abandoning Bitcoin and Amazon at least still
0:26.0	believes in autonomous vehicles.
0:28.4	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. The European Commission announced it has opened an antitrust investigation into whether
0:38.0	Google favors its own display ad tech over rivals, quoting the financial times.
0:44.7	Google is present at almost all levels of the supply chain for online display
0:49.2	advertising, said Mark Eath Vestager, the EU's executive vice president in charge of competition policy.
0:55.2	We are concerned that Google has made it harder for rival online advertising services to compete
1:00.1	in the so-called ad tech stack end quote in particular the probe will examine how
1:06.3	Google insists that advertisers can only buy display ads on YouTube by
1:11.0	using its own tools.
1:12.6	Investigators also want to know if Google's tools
1:14.9	favor the company's ad exchange,
1:17.0	the marketplace where deals are made,
1:19.2	and whether rival services can access data
1:21.8	on how users react to the ads traded on Google's
1:25.1	exchange. Vestager added that Brussels would investigate Google's
1:29.1	policies on tracking users quote to make sure they are in line with fair competition end
1:34.2	quote the European Commission the executive body of the EU said it would
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