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Chrome on the chopping block as Google’s search antitrust trial moves forward

More than anything else, Google doesn’t want to lose Chrome. We expect to see Google’s established opposition to Chrome divestiture cranked up to 11 in the remedy phase. The company will no doubt be able to point to many instances where it acted as a benevolent steward of the open web through the dominance of Chrome. It chose to make Chromium open source and has kept it that way, even though it could have made more money keeping the code to itself.

Article:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/chrome-on-the-chopping-block-as-googles-search-antitrust-trial-moves-forward/

Additional Information:

Owned By Google (this is in no way a complete list. Note that some list you might find do contain errors)

Major Services:

Google Search: The primary search engine.Google has a 90% share of the global search engine market
Gmail: The email service.
YouTube: The video sharing platform.
Android: The mobile operating system.
Google Maps: The online mapping service.
Google Play: The mobile app store
AdSense, Blogger

Owned Companies:

Waze: GPS navigation and traffic app.
Nest: Home automation products.
Fitbit: Wearable fitness trackers.
DoubleClick: Online advertising platform.
Looker: Data analytics platform.
Motorola Mobility: Telecommunications company.
AdMob: Mobile advertising platform.

Other Internet Properties:

Google Fiber: Fiber broadband internet service.
AdSense: Advertising network for non-Google websites.
Google Wifi: Home Wi-Fi system

Additional List of Google Products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products

Alphabet Revenue:
Alphabet’s revenues remained below expectations in the last quarter of 2024, while its net income beat forecasts. Yearly, the company’s revenues for last year rose 14% to $350 billion in 2024, and its net income soared 36% to $100.1 billion compared to 2023.Feb 5, 2025.

In terms of market capitalization, Microsoft is bigger than Google. Microsoft’s market cap is around $3.12 trillion, while Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has a market cap of around $2.13 trillion.

In terms of market capitalization (the total market value of a company’s outstanding shares), Apple is larger than Google. Apple’s market cap is currently around $3.021 trillion, while Google (Alphabet Inc.) has a market cap of $2.13 trillion.

Apple Is Now Bigger Than Google, Amazon, Tesla, and Walmart Combined
Dec 13, 2022
Yahoo Finance

So the anti-trust case is not about size.

Google, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held that Google violated antitrust law by monopolizing open-web digital advertising markets. According to the Court, Google “harmed Google’s publishing customers, the competitive process, and, ultimately, consumers of information on the open web.”

n 2020, the Justice Department, joined by a group of states, accused Google of illegally stifling competition by paying the makers of web browsers and phones to set Google as their default search engine.

What violates the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The most common violations of the Sherman Act and the violations most likely to be prosecuted criminally are price fixing, bid rigging, and market allocation among competitors (commonly described as “horizontal agreements”).

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DHL to suspend global shipments of over $800 to US consumers

DHL Express, a division of Germany’s Deutsche Post, said it would suspend global business-to-consumer shipments worth over $800 to individuals in the United States from April 21, as US customs regulatory changes have lengthened clearance.

The notice on the company website was not dated, but its metadata showed it was compiled on Saturday.

DHL blamed the halt on new US customs rules which require formal entry processing on all shipments worth over $800. The minimum had been $2,500 until a change on April 5.

DHL said business-to-business shipments would not be suspended but could face delays. Shipments under $800 to either businesses or consumers were not affected by the changes.

The move is a temporary measure, the company said in its statement.

DHL said last week in response to Reuters questions that it would continue to process shipments from Hong Kong to the United States “in accordance with the applicable customs rules and regulations” and would “work with our customers to help them understand and adapt to the changes that are planned for May 2.”

That came after Hongkong Post said last week it had suspended mail services for goods sent by sea to the United States, accusing the US of “bullying” after Washington canceled tariff-free trade provisions for packages from China and Hong Kong.

In the United States, goods valued at or below $800 are generally exempt from import duties and taxes, as long as the total value of all shipments on a single day doesn’t exceed $800. This is part of the “de minimis exemption,” which allows for simplified customs clearance for low-value imports.
Here’s a more detailed breakdown:

The $800 Threshold:
A key point is that this $800 threshold applies to the total value of all shipments arriving on a single day for a specific person.

No Formal Entry Required:
Goods under $800 generally don’t require formal customs entry, as they are considered “de minimis”.

Gifts and Personal Effects:
There are specific provisions for gifts and personal effects, with lower thresholds and different rules applying. For instance, bona fide gifts from abroad may have a duty-free value of up to $100.

CBP’s Role:
The CBP (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) oversees the de minimis exemption and can still require formal entry for any shipment if deemed necessary

UPS is still shipping from China, but there may be temporary service delays, particularly from Southern China to the U.S. and Americas. UPS has also suspended its Service Guarantee for deliveries from China and Hong Kong to the US.

FedEx is still delivering from China. They have a significant presence in China with numerous employees, vehicles, and flights operating weekly, according to FedEx newsroom. While there may be occasional service disruptions or fee adjustments, FedEx continues to operate international shipping services, including those from China to the US. For example, they have recently implemented a demand surcharge for some shipments from China entering the U.S., but shipments are still generally continuing.

the USPS does still deliver from China. While there was a brief suspension of inbound packages from China and Hong Kong in early February 2025, the USPS reversed that decision and resumed accepting these packages.
Here’s a more detailed explanation:

The USPS initially announced a suspension of inbound packages from China and Hong Kong, but this was lifted within hours.

Reason for the Suspension:
The suspension was reportedly in response to President Trump’s executive order ending a trade loophole, known as “de minimis,” which allowed low-value packages from China to enter the US without paying duties.

Current Status:
The USPS has reversed its decision and is again accepting inbound packages from China and Hong Kong.

Impact on Retailers:
This reversal means that popular online retailers like Temu and Shein, who rely on the USPS for shipping, can continue to operate.

 

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Trump exempts Desktop, laptops, memory chips, cellphones & more from tariffs

The Trump administration late Friday said they would exclude electronics like desktops, smartphones, laptops, memory chips, hard drives, flat-panel monitors & other tech items not readily available from US manufacturers from reciprocal tariffs. Machines used to make semiconductors are excluded too. That means they won’t be subject to the current 145% tariffs levied on China or the 10% baseline tariffs elsewhere.
This move that could help keep the prices down and affordable for popular consumer electronics that aren’t usually made in the U.S.

It would also benefit big tech companies like Apple and Samsung and chip makers like Nvidia and sets the stage for a likely tech stock rally on Monday (4-14-2025.)

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Are Dems Going Into Full Fiction Mode?

Headline Example:

Today in regret: MAGA diehards learn their votes have consequences
 

It is strictly an opinion piece presented as news with nothing to back up the opinion or the fiction of the Democrats.

Another Example:

This week’s elections finally gave good news for Dems

In the article:

On Tuesday, Iowa Democrats notched an upset victory in a state Senate district that Donald Trump won by more than 20 points, and Minnesota Democrats retook their Senate majority in the statehouse. Meanwhile, in Washington, congressional Democrats who had been on defense since Trump swept back into office denounced Trump’s sweeping freeze on federal assistance — adopting a unified message for the first time since Trump took office.

“Adopting a unified message for the first time.” That is all the Democrats do is behave like a damn twitter echo chamber, repeating the same crap over and over again. That is not new. That is same old, same old. And pointing to some crap in Minnesota that means nothing accept that the corrupt party machine is alive and well in Minnesota and Iowa.

The spending freeze was always intended to be temporary and mostly just Trump trolling and making clear what might happen if the Democrats and renegade Republicans do not fall in line to deal with the US debt problem. But of course, unfortunately, the average Democrat is too stupid to understand that.

I could go on down the list of the articles on Democrat Yahoo News or Google news but you get the point. You know the point. The Democrats hate America and want to bankrupt America to the point where there can be no freeze on spending because it will not be needed. America will be bankrupt, defaulting on all debt, no money to borrow. inflation over a 100% and with Democrats begging Americans to please vote on their way down while jumping off buildings.

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With Musk, Is All That Is Old New Again

Elon Musk’s first tech company was Zip2, a software company that he co-founded in 1995. Zip2 was an online city guide that provided searchable business directories and maps.

Musk co-founded Zip2 with his brother Kimbal and Greg Kouri. PayPal co-founder Elon Musk was just 23 when he and his younger brother, Kimbal, met Kouri, a friend of their parents, in Toronto in 1995. The brothers moved to Silicon Valley, and Kouri helped them launch a startup, Zip2, an early door-to-door direction service. Kouri became vice-president of business development.  The company was originally called Global Link Information Network.

Gregory (Greg) Anthony Kouri, 51, passed away suddenly on Saturday, August 11, 2012 in New York City.

Compaq’s AltaVista division bought the company in 1999 for $307 million, and the Musks and Kouri plowed some of the proceeds into X.com, an online financial services company. In 2000, Musk merged it with a payments startup called Confinity, led by Peter Thiel. Musk received $22 million for his 7% share.

Elon Musk co-founded X.com, which merged with Confinity to form PayPal in 2000. He was briefly the CEO of PayPal before being ousted by the board in 2000. Musk remained the largest shareholder of PayPal after being ousted as CEO. In 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion, netting Musk $165 million.

And now…

Elon Musk just took another step toward turning X into a financial powerhouse. The platform is rolling out X Money, a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment service backed by Visa (NYSE:V). This means X users can now move money between their bank accounts and X’s ecosystemjust like Zelle or Venmo. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed Visa as the first financial partner, making it clear that X is dead serious about integrating payments into the app. With X Payments LLC already licensed in 41 states, the groundwork is in place for Musk’s vision of a fully integrated financial network.

Elon Musk is intent on becoming a competitor with PayPal, a company he helped to found after rebranding twitter, X, after one of his earlier companies.

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Pushing the Anti-Vice Agenda

So some liberal magazine–isn’t that always the way-is talking about heart disease.  “It is the number one killer of Americans.” According to a new report from the American Heart Association published in the journal Circulation: 941,652 Americans died from cardiovascular disease in 2022. Before Covid the number of deaths by heart attack was somewhat lower–in 2019 the number was 874,000–but that is not mentioned in the article. Deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) jumped globally from 12.1 million in 1990 to 20.5 million in 2021.

According to most medical data, the average age of someone who dies from a heart attack is around 65 years old, with men typically experiencing heart attacks slightly younger than women at around 65 years old compared to 72 years old for women respectively.

The Most Common Risk Factors for Heart Disease include:

Age (the older you are, the higher your risk)

Autoimmune diseases or conditions

Diabetes diagnosis (both type 1 and type 2 diabetes raise your risk)

Drinking alcohol

Genetics (heart disease can run in families, even if you’re otherwise healthy)

High blood pressure

High cholesterol

Obesity

Sedentary lifestyle

Smoking, which cardiologists say is the worst habit for heart health

Stress

So then this liberal magazine suggest the ways you can reduce your risk of dying from heart disease.  Note that they put the vices at top.

Quitting smoking and vaping

Quitting drinking (or at least cutting back)

Exercising regularly

Eating a healthy diet (cardiologists love the Mediterranean and DASH diets)

Monitoring and managing your blood pressure

Taking necessary medications as directed by your doctor (like statins for cholesterol or blood thinners if prescribed)

Managing your weight (with a doctor’s help and medications if prescribed)

Managing your diabetes with a doctor’s guidance

Getting at least seven hours of sleep each night

Managing stress (we know it’s hard in this timeline, but do your best)

Remember that it is not how long you live but how well you live.  Pleasure is important.  You should live an active life but you should do what you enjoy.  When the doctors told my mom to stop smoking and I went along that was probably one of the worst things I did in my life.  My mom enjoyed smoking.  It helped reduce her stress.  She was a type one, brittle, juvenile diabetic.  When she stopped smoking her eating habits became worse.  But worse, when she stopped smoking it did not increase her quality of life or her life span.  It was stupid advice.

And understand I am old.  So I know that when I visited nursing homes for other people, earlier, there were elderly people  smoking, who had smoked everyday since they were very young.  Some people do have health issues from smoking but not everyone.  Not everyone is the same.

As I learned both from caring for my mom and much later my dad who lived to be 90, with exceptions, doctors are idiots.  People need to understand that.  And doctors will generally tell you whatever our insane government tells them to tell you in their seminars.  That became very clear during the covid shit.

Some doctors get through their education because they are smart in every sense of the word.  But some doctors get where they are because they have very good memories and know not to question the bullshit they are being taught.  Those doctors generally do not have a lick of common sense and will tell you whatever the government wants them to tell you.

But as a rule, don’t trust any doctor.  Do not blindly accept whatever they are telling you.  Question them.  At the end of the day, it is you who is in charge of your heath and the quality of your life.  Doctors and the government may like to play God but they aren’t God.  Within reason, if you want to smoke, smoke unless you can actually feel it causing you health problems such as coughs or a weakness or getting sick more often than you should.  The same with drinking.  Just don’t become a drunk.

 

And for the record I don’t smoke and I don’t drink because that is not something that I would enjoy.  That choice is not based on what some doctor, media, or government says.  It is my choice.

 

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CNN Calls The Biden Economy A Goldilocks Economy

During the Biden economy CNN’s revenue dropped 18%, over $400 million.  In 2022 the inflation rate was reported as over 8%.  Although we know Biden under reported inflation, the reported inflation during the Biden years was over 11%. The real number is probably over 20%. Inflation has outpace wage increases whichever number you use.

And yet CNN makes the claim that Trump threatens Biden’s Goldilocks economy.  Apparently Goldilocks was an insane bitch who ran a feudal estate and broke into people’s homes to insult their intelligence and to eat their soup and to leave them broke and hungry and suicidal.  And CNN writers love the crazy bitch.

To add insult to injury by CNN’s love for Biden’s economy, the wealth disparity between rich, middle class, and poor increased under Biden.  The Oligarchy saw their wealth increase $1.5 trillion.

The article on CNN is mostly about Trump pausing, ordering the suspension of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants and loans. A judge temporarily halted the suspension. CNN claims the temporary suspension is illegal, but government departments are not required to spend all the money allocated by Congress. The Antideficiency Act and the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act (ICA) limit how much money federal agencies can spend. The temporary suspension is intended to get a handle on what the departments are doing, such as sending $50 million worth of condoms to GAZA.

Both Trump and Biden increased the government debt by a huge amount during the unprecedented times, but now the debt must be brought back in line and Trump is trying to do that. It is going to be difficult if not impossible. The Democrats can either rant and rave like a bunch of angry lunatics or they can help.

The first government of the United States was the Second Continental Congress, which served as a provisional government from 1776 to 1781. The first US Government was brought down by high taxes and unmanageable debt at the state level that culminated in the Shay’s rebellion. Every politician, Democrat or Republican, should be aware that it was high taxes and high debt that destroyed the first American Government. They should be more than determined to make sure our current government is not destroyed in a similar fashion.

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Trump proposes Jordan, Egypt take in Gazans so decimated Strip can be turned into Monaco

Trump proposes Jordan, Egypt take in Gazans so decimated Strip can be turned into Monaco. I guess next, he is planning to send all the people in Los Angeles to New York.  After Katrina destroyed New Orleans Bush scattered the people of New Orleans all over the place, in part to cover up his incompetence.

Earlier Trump had been suggesting the Palestinians be relocated to Indonesia.  Apparently Indonesia responded with a sincere, “That is not happening.”  Though Indonesia has offered to be part of a peace keeping force to protect the Palestinians from Israel.

Meanwhile Israel is saying that it will not withdraw from Southern Lebanon.

The ceasefire deal for Lebanon gave both sides 60 days to remove their forces from southern Lebanon and for the Lebanese army to move in and secure the area. Israel says Hezbollah and the Lebanese army haven’t met their obligations, while Lebanon accuses the Israeli army of hindering the Lebanese military from taking over.

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Is Twitter Going Down For the Count

There is little doubt that after taking over Twitter that Elon Musk made mistakes.  Linda Yaccarino, who Musk made the CEO of Twitter was probably his biggest mistake.   Musk needed someone  who would push to restore Twitter to its early days, instead of listening to the hate speech bullcrap from the elite media, the advertisers, Ms. Yaccarino.  Although she and Musk pretended to support  Twitter as a free speech platform the blue checkmark fiasco made sure that never happened.

“You have to pay for free speech.”  “I need to make money on twitter, but you can only make money if you accept your role as my sharecropper and fork over your money.”

Twitter’s echo chamber became worst.  The user’s average impression level became worse as it became clear that part of the Musk/Yaccarino agenda was that users could say what they want but that didn’t mean anyone could actually view the tweets.  The fake trending topics became worse as most tweets that didn’t fit the agenda became suppressed.

One lie twitter uses when it wants to hurt an account is it makes the false accusation that someone is attempting to manipulate the platform and spam.  A different account that I set up for sensitive content got that claim against it even though the account has few follows/followers and I almost never post from it.  It had not been hacked.

Although I began posting real sensitive content on my sayata account, that was because most of my non-sensitive content was marked as sensitive such as pictures of cars.  Without posting some #nsfw content on twitter I would get no traffic at all.

In the early days twitter would get me traffic.  My tweets would get hundred of views.  No, I was never John Mayer, but twitter halfway worked for me.  Then Jack Dorsey allowed private groups to mine the twitter data and flag and suppress whoever they wanted and my twitter problems began.

After the election Twitter hit Laura Loomer and other MAGA Republicans. who had foolishly paid for the blue check mark, with a slap in the face as they got demonetized and censored.  If Musk is trying to build a growing audience for twitter, he sure has done a lot of things to chase users away.  (I just looked at Laura Loomer’s twitter account and she does have the blue check mark.)

A Laura Loomer Tweet:

When the dissident right started talking about how free speech was back on twitter, many of us were looking around and shaking our head. We knew they were being used and at some point they would be back in the same boat as the rest of us, who NEVER, saw free speech return to twitter.

The worst wave of censorship that hit the internet across youtube, twitter, etc. was in 2018 under Donald Trump and as we now know, the government was directing the censorship.  Later, the joke that Donald Trump turned the Supreme Court into, upheld the government’s illegal behavior.

Article about how Musk is close to admitting defeat on Twitter

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Structures Recently Found Inside Earth’s Mantle Shouldn’t Exist

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AI Information Below:

Recent discoveries beneath the Earth include a “doughnut-shaped” region at the top of the outer core, providing new insights into the Earth’s magnetic field, as well as large, continent-sized “blobs” floating within the mantle, which could be remnants of subducted tectonic plates; scientists have also confirmed the existence of an “innermost core” within the Earth’s center, representing a distinct layer within the core itself.
Key points about these new discoveries:

Doughnut-shaped structure:
Located at the boundary between the liquid outer core and the mantle, this structure could offer new information about the dynamics of the Earth’s magnetic field.

“Blob” structures in the mantle:
These large, mysterious masses could be remnants of subducted tectonic plates, potentially revealing past geological activity.

Innermost core:
Evidence suggests a distinct layer within the Earth’s inner core, potentially indicating a complex history of the planet’s cooling process

AI on the idea that another planet once collided with earth.

The most significant evidence that a planet once collided with Earth is the presence of large, dense “blobs” deep within Earth’s mantle, called Large Low-Velocity Provinces (LLVPs), which scientists believe are remnants of a Mars-sized planet called Theia that collided with early Earth, forming the Moon in the process; this theory is known as the “giant impact hypothesis.”

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