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Google launches another appeal against 2017 EU antitrust ruling on shopping service

Computerworld Vertical IT

billlion) fine imposed by the European Union in 2017 after it found the company had violated antitrust rules by using its dominant position in the search engine market to illegally promote its comparison shopping service. Google has once again sought to overturn a €2.4 billion ($2.6

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DOJ suit over Apple iPhone cites failures of Amazon Fire Phone and Microsoft Windows Phone

GeekWire

That’s due in part to repeated references and comparisons in the suit to the DOJ’s prior antitrust case against Microsoft over its Windows monopoly in the late 1990s. But the suit also cites as evidence the inability of many other tech giants, including Microsoft and Amazon, to compete against Apple in smartphones.

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Nomad Go raises $1.5M to power computer vision software that automatically counts inventory

GeekWire

Founded in 2017 by Greschler and chief product officer Jonah Friedl , Nomad Go was previously using AI to help businesses identify best practices and improve such things as customer throughput, customer satisfaction, speed of service and store-by-store comparisons.

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Pay-equity startup Syndio raises $50M as more companies broaden analysis of workplace fairness

GeekWire

Syndio’s data-science powered software is used by companies to analyze and resolve pay equity issues due to gender, race or other comparisons, and to provide strategies for fixing those disparities. And one of the reasons why is because we started doing this in 2017, before this had become such a macro issue and a cultural phenomenon.”

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Amazon’s newest euphemism for overworked employees is ‘industrial athlete’

The Verge

The comparison is a troubling euphemism for a company whose workers have almost double the amount of serious injuries as the rest of the warehousing industry and who reportedly are often unable to take bathroom breaks. One thing Amazon doesn’t bring up is that athletes train for an event with a definite end date.

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Sgt. Pepper’s to get new Atmos mix because current version ‘doesn’t sound quite right’

The Verge

The current mix, produced by the younger Martin in 2017, was made with Dolby Atmos theaters in mind, rather than personal listening via services like Apple Music. The current Atmos mix of the album was created to coincide with its 50th anniversary in 2017. I’m gonna replace it,” the said the two time Grammy winner to Rolling Stone.

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Microsoft ends production of the Xbox One as focus turns to new consoles

GeekWire

A later revision of the hardware, the Xbox One X, came out in 2017. Despite the ongoing success of the PlayStation 5, Sony plans to make another million or so PS4s over the course of 2022, most of which appear to be the 2017 “Slim” edition of the console.

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