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PLUS: Philippines bans gambling payments; Indonesia warns Roblox; China lures young scientists; And more!


Asia In Brief Google on Monday admitted to anticompetitive conduct in its dealings with Australian telcos.

Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission on Monday announced a lawsuit against the web giant after it admitted requiring Telstra and Optus, Australia’s two biggest telcos, to only pre-install Google Search on Android phones they sold to consumers between December 2019 and March 2021.

In return for granting exclusivity, the carriers received a share of the revenue Google generated from ads.

Google co-operated with the regulator, admitted liability, and agreed to AUD$55 million ($35.8 million) fine – pocket change for Google given its annual revenue exceeds $350 billion.

Japan’s biggest newspaper sues Perplexity AI

The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s biggest newspaper, has sued Perplexity AI for scraping its content and using it to create derivative works

The paper’s publisher alleges that Perplexity AI acquired 119,467 Yomiuri articles without permission ...


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