Use the latest Monopoly Go free dice links to redeem extra rolls so you can keep playing without spending any money Monopoly Go dice links can provide you with a handy boost in this mobile game as there are currently 130 free rolls available and they take mere seconds to claim on your account The Star Wars events are about to draw to a close meaning some extra rolls now could help you secure more Jedi tickets so you can complete the Pod Racers minigame and claim the chest rewards for finishing laps these free rolls will also keep your day to day tasks ticking over from robbing rivals' vaults to collecting rent so you can build more landmarks.Keeping your roll count topped up is key to maintaining movement and earning rewards to progress through the game so here are all of the current Monopoly Go free dice links and details on how to claim them on your device These are the latest free Monopoly Go dice links so click through to them from your device browser to receive these gifts directly in the game: Remember that each of these links can only be claimed once per game account so you can't use them multiple times for extra rewards you first need to reach Level 15 and unlock the Album feature of the game though don't worry if you're just starting out as it won't take long to reach that level open this guide in your device's web browser and tap on the links above which will open them in the game to provide your free dice rewards you may need to tell your browser to open the link with the Monopoly Go app If the links are taking you to your platform's store instead then make sure the Monopoly Go app is updated to the latest version and open this page in a different browser or incognito mode If your Monopoly Go dice links aren't working then make sure your account is Level 15+ and you've followed the steps above correctly try a different browser or incognito mode if necessary If the links are connecting to the Monopoly Go app but you're getting an error message We verify all of the Monopoly Go free dice links listed here to confirm they are valid and working but they do usually expire after a short amount of time so it's likely that you'll run into one of these error messages at some point Don't worry though as there are always new dice links being released which we'll keep adding to the list here so you have other options available While the Monopoly Go dice links listed here are a great way to get extra rolls for free there are plenty of other ways to earn more dice in the game without spending any money Make sure you regularly visit the Shop to claim the free gift at the top of the screen as it has an 8 hour cooldown as well as opening the daily Quick Wins screen to tick off challenges as you complete them to receive the rewards You can also tap on any of the active events running down the right hand side of the screen to view their rewards and many will give you free dice when you hit their requirements before moving on to join GamesRadar in 2013 as Guides Editor He is better known to many as ‘Mr Trophy’ due to his slightly unhealthy obsession with amassing intangible PlayStation silverware and he now has over 750 Platinum pots weighing down the shelves of his virtual award cabinet you will then be prompted to enter your display name And within hours of a Wednesday court ruling showing private regulation can be more burdensome to markets than democratic rules CEOs like to condemn There’s been an enormous amount of discussion about what holds back markets in physical commodities like housing and energy but also what prevents innovation and invention One argument is that there are too many government-generated rules and regulations that slow everything down Another is that the absence of government structuring leads to private regulations imposed by dominant firms on their own terms to often exclude rivals and extract money When those private regulations are forced into remission markets can explode with new products and offers That’s happening right now in real time in the market for mobile phone apps and particularly the distribution of those apps to customers and permanent consequences to a Big Tech company for monopolizing markets And literally within 24 hours of a federal court’s Wednesday ruling imposing sanctions for this misconduct competitors have been rushing into the space in ways that will make the market fairer More from David Dayen The case before the court concerned Apple’s monopoly power over its iOS App Store Apple has built a tollbooth whereby apps that offer items for purchase must pay a 30 percent tax to Apple (A few select apps have a smaller 15 percent tax.) Epic Games wanted to offer game purchases off the app through a link at a cheaper price point but Apple barred Fortnite from the App Store for such circumvention and denied any developer the ability to steer people to off-app purchasing since they would not be able to load on iPhones and would therefore lose access to a huge number of potential customers (Google has a similar 30 percent tax for its Android phones.) district court in a private antitrust case And it won a narrow injunction in May 2021 Apple would have to allow app developers to communicate with consumers and direct them to alternative “purchasing mechanisms.” But Big Tech firms like Apple see these impositions only as minor obstacles to work around by devising more private rules to maximize profits while their preferred tollbooth tax stayed in place Apple had to comply with the original injunction but demanded a new 27 percent tax on anything bought off-app with the link The 3 percent “discount” was less than the cost to app developers for setting up their own payment processing Apple also limited the placement of links to alternative purchases restricted the “call to action” language to generic asks required a “static URL” that could not maintain a user account to the offline link and added a “scare screen,” warning customers who clicked on an outbound link that “You’re about to go to an external website Apple is not responsible for the privacy or security of purchases made on the web.” The effect of all of these rules has been to make customers reluctant to proceed to the link when internal documents showed it had been debated and planned for years Apple delayed discovery so it could keep the revenue stream going a bit longer Finally, on Wednesday, Federal District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled And I think the technical term for what happened is she lost her shit “Apple sought to maintain a revenue stream worth billions in direct defiance of this Court’s Injunction,” Rogers wrote Apple believed that this Court would not see through its obvious cover-up.” She permanently barred Apple from imposing any fee on off-app purchases lifted all restrictions on app developer communications with customers and enabled the dynamic URLs that keep users logged in “There are no do-overs once a party willfully disregards a court order,” Gonzalez Rogers said immediately putting the ruling into effect even as Apple plans to appeal Attorney in Northern California for Apple and Alex Roman and what’s interesting is how things have quickly proceeded from there Epic Games had previously launched its own app store called the Epic Games Store, but only in the European Union for iPhones and iPads. On Thursday, just one day after the ruling, Epic improved that store for app developers imposing no fees on the first $1 million in sales annually Epic also announced new “webshops” that developers can launch inside the Epic Games Store to enable off-app purchases “With new legal rulings in place,” the announcement stated “developers will be able to send players from games to make digital purchases from webshops on any platform that allows it including iOS in the European Union and United States.” The court’s decision has fully revitalized a market under more favorable terms for everyone who participates in it and innovate without fear of retaliation,” my Organized Money podcast co-host Matt Stoller said in a statement for his organization Applying this kind of standard to other markets dominated by single firms is as simple as securing structural remedies that allow competition to take hold There are plenty of other ways to nurse markets—public financing or loan guarantees But preventing market monopolists from devising private rules to funnel money and power their way has considerable force and a demonstrable track record Government (and in this case private litigants with the resources and persistence of Epic Games) can impose rules of the road that allow commerce to flourish we’ve heard a lot about markets succeeding if the underbrush of rules would just get cleared out democratic rules that are not co-opted by private regulation David Dayen is the Prospect’s executive editor His most recent book is ‘Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.’ About the Prospect | Contact Info Careers |FAQ Newsletters Browse Archive / Back Issues Manage A Print Subscription Manage A Recurring Donation Privacy Policy DONATE TO THE PROSPECT ShareSaveCommentBETAThis is a BETA experience. opt-out hereBusinessMediaMonopoly Go! Passes $5 Billion In Two Years, But Journey Wasn’t EasyByDavid Bloom Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights I’m an LA-based columnist & consultant focused on tech & entertainmentFollow AuthorMay 01 generating $5 billion in revenues in slightly less than two years says is the fastest a mobile title has ever reached that prodigious height But it wasn’t easy creating a game that perhaps no one expected would ever, especially so quickly, join an elite club (others include Genshin Impact and Royal Match) among the 1.4 million games released on mobile app stores trying to figure out the best way to adapt the original board game for a very different experience of gaming on a mobile phone with a free-to-play mechanic and a strong social component “We knew Monopoly was a beloved (intellectual property) which in some way is saying it was a beloved experience,” Ferreira said Or maybe a beloved feeling when people were playing Monopoly The question for us was how do we bring the game to mobile?” Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase A straight conversion wasn’t likely to be successful because it couldn’t really replicate the actual feeling “of getting rich not just others but family members,” Ferreira said “And do it in a way where the stakes are low Early iterations of a mobile version were “too skill-based We didn’t see audiences reacting positively to that," especially for a game that relies so heavily on luck and dice rolls Other early versions weren’t social enough “That’s kind of a key idea,” Ferreira said but because of who you are playing it with.” One key in unlocking a successful mobile take on a very well established board game was optimizing it so people could easily play with friends and family in “your real social graph,” rather than “the social graph inside the game," Ferreira said That social web of connections helped encourage people to keep coming back repeatedly over weeks and months some 10 million players access the game daily And Ferreira said that while a $70 million development budget seems steep when you’re thinking about titles that can have a life cycle of 10 or 20 years how much you invest in development isn’t that expensive (Focus instead on) how do you make a good game Your investment will always be really good." like all operators of live-service mobile titles relies heavily on data to track what’s working for which players and to constantly adjust its various parameters “How do you use data to listen to what players are telling you so you can continually evolve the game and make it better every day,” Ferreira said Such constant tuning is more vital than ever in a highly competitive fight for players’ attention not just from all those other games on mobile and other devices The game business has been severely challenged the past couple of years after the peri- and post-pandemic game-playing rush abated beginning around 2023 People are back to many parts of their old routines and ways to spend their leisure time That makes careful construction of games to maximize engagement vital vice president of corporate strategy and development for Sony Interactive Entertainment “Consumer media time is plateauing,” Jones said, speaking at Monday’s Los Angeles Games Conference legal & finance summit. “Games have avoided (problems with) that and more competition for audiences than we have seen a few decades.” Ferreira said Monopoly Go!’s monetization structure isn’t “particularly unique,” but it was built around two big key performance indicators: “an incredible long-term retention curve for the game that was better and higher than we had ever seen here at Scopely The second thing that’s driven success is the virality Those social dynamics have been key to driving retention The game’s success over the past two years wasn’t a big factor in the $4.9 billion 2023 acquisition of Scopely by Saudi-backed Savvy Games but it certainly has made the transition to Savvy ownership a much easier experience it allowed Savvy to feel pretty great about the investment they’ve made," Ferreira said It’s worked so well that that Scopely just announced another big deal buying Niantic’s game unit for $3.5 billion That deal brings rights to augmented-reality pioneer Pokemon Go among much else top of mind with different slices of its audiences the company has done multiple cross-over deals a two-month collaboration with another big Disney brand was invoked multiple times by LA Games Conference panelists “You couldn’t get two more different studios but Scopely and (Baldur’s Gate III maker) Larian Studios understood what their communities needed a former long-time executive at Hasbro (which owns the Monopoly franchise) and founding principal of Infinite Ventures had is what Evans called “a 90-year first-time user experience They have been training people to play Monopoly for many years Many players who paid there (for in-game assets) have never paid for an online game before Nobody knew it was going to do $3 billion in its first 12 months.” in building very different kinds of game experiences for PC and mobile respectively understood that merely delivering a good game wasn’t enough giving players reasons to keep coming back and keep recruiting friends and family to join them disposable money and disposable time,” Evans said “It used to be (the formula for success was) ‘How many products can we sell them.?’ Now ’How much time can we get them to spend?’” easy-to-learn mobile games have been riding a wave of democratization in who plays games these days “The average age of gamers is 25 years older now than it was 25 years ago,” Evans said That includes people who play Candy Crush or Monopoly Go Alright, Star Wars fans there’s a new FREE offering available but what’s fantastic is you don’t have to travel anywhere to take advantage of this new perk Don’t worry, you don’t need to run over to Galaxy’s Edge or stress about sprinting to a store before the day is over — this offering is available right from your phone you’ll want to sign in and make sure you don’t miss this exciting new offering If you’re a Disney+ subscriber and have the MONOPOLY GO you can log in and redeem a free in-game TIE-Fighter TOKEN You’ll be able to race through the galaxy and play the game in this exciting crossover event but it’s ONLY available for Disney+ members and is inspired by the original board game it has a few twists that make it easier to play as a single player special events take place that retheme parts of the game and — you guessed it — from now through July 2nd Star Wars fans won’t want to miss this fun event especially with May the Fourth right around the corner Be sure to stay tuned to AllEars for all the latest Disney news and beyond TSA just banned an essential travel item from checked luggage Six Flags has just announced that they're CLOSING on of their theme parks entirely this.. 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Announced just a couple of weeks ago and more incorporatedinto the mobile title as they celebrate May The 4th and beyond this year We have the full rundown of what you'll see as the update is now live in the game The collaboration is rooted in a deep and compelling narrative that begins with Monopoly GO!'s beloved robot Peg-E visiting Mr Captivated by the cinematic magic of Star Wars players will be transported into timeless tales of good and evil and the light and dark side — kickstarting a series of action-packed in-game events players can begin unlocking the limited-time Star Wars GO and Star Wars story inspired by the saga's most iconic moments players logging in starting that day will receive an exclusive token – in honor of all Star Wars fans This massive crossover brings fan-favorite Monopoly GO events to life with a dose of Star Wars adventure Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker How to every single reward in the Star Wars event It's not quite May the 4th yet, but ahead of the annual Star Wars day Monopoly Go has launched a big crossover with the beloved sci-fi franchise with a number of events based on George Lucas's iconic series debuting in the app including Jedi Journey This latest event launched on Thursday 1 May 2025, and is part of the Monopoly Go x Star Wars crossover that's taking place this month. It offers a variety of rewards, including extra dice rolls and the currency players need for the latest Racers event which this time is around is called Pod Racers and is themed around the race ships that first appeared in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace If you want to claim everything the event has to offer before it ends on Saturday 3 May 2025 then we're here to help Below you'll find all the Monopoly Go Jedi Journey rewards and how you can claim each one The objective of the Jedi Journey event that launched during May 2025 is to land on the tiles with the Pickups icons If players unlock every single reward tier in the event they'll get over 18,000 dice rolls Here are all the rewards you can get in the Monopoly Go Jedi Journey event: That's all the rewards you can get in the Star Wars-themed event. Thanks to the Go Rewards app for listing every single reward available in Jedi Journey That's it for our guide to the Monopoly Go Jedi Journey event. If you need more help with the hugely popular Android and iOS app, head to our pages on the next Partner Event and the next Golden Blitz event. We've also got a guide that rounds-up the events and tournaments taking place today No part of this website or its content may be reproduced without the copyright owner's permission VG247 is a registered trademark of Gamer Network Limited 2025 Over 70 crypto firms join forces to tackle Big Tech’s AI monopoly Yuga Labs Venice.ai and more are supporting a new open-source framework so that AI agents can operate autonomously across networks Profile COINTELEGRAPH IN YOUR SOCIAL FEEDIn a move that hopes to challenge Big Tech’s grip on artificial intelligence AI agent protocol Thinkagents.ai has launched a new open-source framework for building onchain agents that operate autonomously across decentralized networks While traditional systems aim to restrict data ownership and platform abilities for their users Thinkagents.ai is creating an interoperable ecosystem owned and controlled by its users the Think Agent Standard is the future of AI Anderson and his team developed the Think Agent Standard to enable millions of autonomous onchain AI agents to transact and communicate enterprises and Web3 communities to experiment with the framework “There was always this idea that it’s so much harder to [build AI] and so much more expensive when you have to build a thousand custom ways of doing it,” Anderson said during an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph “By standardizing demand — the way people want to receive AI — you can get the whole market to line up because they want customers and getting customers in AI is really difficult.” Following the release of Meta’s Llama 2 in 2023 Anderson and his team decided that if the future of decentralized AI ever manifested they needed to ensure that consumers could easily use graphic processing units (GPUs) without spending billions of dollars “We watched as this whole ecosystem started to grow ’I’m going to build this part of the stack,’ and others saying they’ll ‘build that part of the stack,” almost as if Amazon Web Services (AWS) showed up with each department with one saying they’ll do the data and another saying they’ll do the networking,” Anderson said The Think Agent Standard was launched by THINK protocol in partnership with the Independent AI Institute with the initial use case around Anderson and his team defining an AI agent (a place on a blockchain that has access to a computer and can make decisions) and the AI agents playing the video game Street Fighter 3 against each other The use case brought nine different companies to work together for an audience of 30,000 viewers last summer Because if owning and controlling AI agents is to remain in the hands of users the decentralized AI agent platforms need to be simple well-designed and deliver on a user experience that could have changed the way we use and understand social media Related: How Meta’s antitrust case could dampen AI development “Imagine if we’d had the foresight in 2003 to see social media as a way to organize our lives,” Anderson said what if we had a standard where your accounts follow you — where all of your data and everything you’d posted in the past is something you’re providing to them It’s a very different thing if users owned their accounts and data and could have opted into seeing ads where they would benefit from them Just as the ERC-20 standard enabled the tokenized economy the Think Agent Standard introduces a modular permissionless and composable system that allows AI agents to function as sovereign digital entities: Owning wallets interacting with smart contracts and transacting seamlessly across every blockchain Each Think agent is powered by Non-Fungible Intelligence (NFI), a digital identity layer that establishes ownership, memory, and authentication, with the core genome palette residing on The Root Network and subsequent layers deployed to any connected network natively The agents are composed of three core elements: The Soul (NFI) which governs behavior and decision-making; and the Body which allows interaction across platforms and environments The first platform built on the Think Agent Standard is SOULS SOULS connects to thousands of open-source applications and evolves over time by integrating the best available intelligence without compromising user privacy or ownership Related: Crypto projects prepare to battle for privacy in Switzerland are actively integrating the standard into real-world applications further validating its potential across use cases “AI agents are the new interface to technology,” Anderson said “What we’ve been able to do successfully is partner with consumer brands — like Bored Ape Yacht Club — to actually have distribution into a consumer’s end point and we’ve been able to build all the systems so that they can actually access consumers.” a personal AI agent is like a personal dashboard that acts as an extension of your real self If the information contained within your AI agent were to leak the results could be personally catastrophic That’s why Think is standardizing the system the agent can interact with If a safe and successful standard exists within the user-owned AI agent industry Big Tech will have a harder time controlling it It’s why users can own their data through their Think agent eliminating the need for their data to be copied and live on some external third-party server Think agents also hope to address the issue around data ownership by putting users in control of who they share their information with “When a social company goes out of business all of that data gets sold to the highest bidder,” Anderson said “23andMe is the most egregious example of this They didn’t give you your DNA data and then delete it from their servers their business model was actually to sell your data to others Your data exhaust is more valuable than your DNA.” Magazine: Crypto wanted to overthrow banks, now it’s becoming them in stablecoin fight The two media giants detailed their crossover event further with a trailer this morning players can unlock and enjoy Star Wars content for the next two months starting today Scopely says the event is “rooted in a deep and compelling narrative” that follows local robot Peg-E after she visits Mr “Captivated by the cinematic magic of Star Wars universe within the Star Wars galaxy,” an official description says and the light and dark side — kickstarting a series of action-packed in-game events Star Wars crossover comes a limited-time 22-sticker album that ties to the Star Wars universe will see players gifted an exclusive token with a variety of other themed additions available to nab throughout the duration of the collaboration Michael Cripe is a freelance contributor with IGN. He's best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe). That it spent nearly $500 million on user acquisition That the developers are microtransaction geniuses truly monetizing our real-life friendships I don't know why I'm throwing shade; Monopoly Go One of the regular events that takes place in Monopoly Go is the F1-esque Racers tournaments The inaugural edition of the event, which like Partner Events makes players team-up with their in-game friends or strangers, launched during the summer of 2024. Plenty of rewards are on offer in each Racers event, including extra dice rolls If you can't wait for the next Racers event to start then you're in the right place We've got details on when to expect the next Racers event and how it works The latest Monopoly Go Racers event is Pod Racers The event launched on Thursday 1 May 2025 and finishes on Monday 5 May 2025 The Championship Prize includes the Jabba the Hutt token In terms of when the next Racers event could be these events usually happen each month but the scheduling can be flexible the next Racers event could happen sometime in June 2025 or Scopely might surprise players by having another Racers event later on in May The previous Monopoly Go Racers event was City Racers The Championship Prize included the Champ token and a Wild Sticker Monopoly Go Racers events share a number of things in common with Partner Events Both events make players join forces with their in-game friends and work together to earn a selection of rewards In Racers events you'll need to form a team of four players in total on the first day of the event you'll mainly spend your time going round the board collecting Flags which is a crucial currency you'll need to collect to do well in races you will be matched up against three other teams with a race held daily over the following three days You'll get rewards for completing each lap of a race The total amount of medals your team collects will determine where you finish in the Championship table The team in first place will get the Grand Prize for the event That's it for our guide to the Monopoly Go Racers events. For more help with the popular app, check out our pages on the next Golden Blitz event and the events and tournaments taking place today. We've also got a guide for the Monopoly Go Tycoon Club Nearly a year ago, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly on the search engine market It was a decision that sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and Washington Now, lawyers for Google and the Justice Department are facing off again at the E Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington This time it's to determine what penalties Mehta will levy against the roughly $2 trillion company both sides will present evidence and are expected to call a host of witnesses That includes Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Gabriel Weinberg CEO of search engine competitor DuckDuckGo according to court documents — though that lineup could change on Monday morning as she stood outside the courthouse the DOJ's Assistant Attorney for the Antitrust Decision The threat Google presents to our freedom of speech" and the freedom of digital market innovation Slater was joined by other attorneys for the government who read from statements about an hour before proceedings began They did not take questions from the gathered media two tables full of lawyers from the DOJ and Google sat elbow to elbow as proceedings began the acting deputy director of the DOJ's antitrust civil litigation division spoke for the government in opening statements he laid out a list of aggressive demands that the government wants to see Google implement The DOJ is calling on the company to divest from Chrome and to end exclusive distribution agreements with phone makers like Apple and Samsung through which Google paid them to establish its search engine as the default browser on their phones The DOJ is also calling on Judge Mehta to prevent Google from establishing similar exclusive distribution agreements for its AI programs and apps We are here to restore competition," Dahlquist said when the Justice Department filed its antitrust lawsuit against Google The crux of the government's argument is that Google has unfair control of a huge market share in U.S. search, a valuation eclipsing $1 trillion. The DOJ's original lawsuit filed alongside 11 state attorneys general said the company struck multibillion-dollar deals with Apple and Samsung to make sure its search engine was the default on their phones' web browsers Those agreements effectively boxed out Google's rivals In the very same courthouse where the Google remedy trial is playing out, Meta is currently facing its own antitrust case filed by the Federal Trade Commision The agency argues Meta has abused its power and acted as a monopoly by acquiring rivals in order to vanquish them as competitors And this isn't the government's only suit against Google: They filed another in 2023. Last week, a different federal judge ruled that Google's control of the online advertising and ad-tech markets violates U.S The government's most forceful request is for Judge Mehta to order the tech company to sell off its popular Chrome browser Chrome is a significant gateway to user searches and drives billions in search revenue for Google It's the world's most popular search engine Forcing Google to sell off this piece of the company would "allow rivals to compete," he said He called it "a market reality" that Google's ownership of Chrome disincentivizes the emergence of new and that this is a violation of federal antitrust laws The DOJ is also asking that Google stop making monthly third-party payments to phone makers to ensure its browser is the default option on those phones Dahlquist said Google has proposed deleting the word "exclusive" in their agreements with Apple and other companies with any other browser distribution agreements arguing that Google can still wedge out other companies by using their existing base agreements and their ability to offer phone makers large sums of money The government wants to go a step further to ensure any remedy prevents Google from establishing similar exclusive agreements for its generative AI products Dahlquist said the rise of Google's AI products could open up another field the company could dominate if it's allowed to keep using exclusive contracts — and they want to prevent that from happening but first must make it through this remedy trial process The company has contended for the past four years that it has never acted as a monopoly and that changes The company's leaders have said its search product is superior to competitors' — and that's why it dominates the industry argued in opening statements that the DOJ's list of remedies in this case is just a "wishlist for competitors," and that it will enable them to get resources that took Google decades to develop The DOJ's proposals aim "to prop up individual competitors," he said Google views the government's demands to divest from Chrome as its most prohibitive and "most extreme" request The company's leaders have said splitting off Chrome would break the hugely popular feature — a statement Schmidtlein repeated in court Google can't divest from the Chrome browser without harming other Google products like the Chrome operating system and Chromebook laptops Addressing the DOJ's effort to prevent Google from including Gemini in future exclusive distribution agreements Schmidtlein said that Gemini was not the subject of the antitrust case and the company does not hold a monopoly on AI products Schmidtlein pointed to the success of competitors' AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT as evidence that competition within this space is healthy and varied "The notion that ChatGPT can't get distribution is absurd They have more distribution than anyone," he said a professor of antitrust law at Vanderbilt Law School points out that this is the government's biggest antitrust case in decades "It is at least as big a deal as the Microsoft case which is the last big antitrust case that we had was about the company bundling its browser It nearly led to the company being split in two — but Microsoft and the DOJ settled Allensworth added that it's also comparable to cases like the Justice Department's 1906 Standard Oil case which is widely considered the first major monopoly case A federal court eventually found that the oil conglomerate owned by John D Rockefeller had illegally monopolized the American refining industry Standard Oil was ordered to break up into around 40 different companies as a result Allensworth said the outcome of this part of Google's trial is hard to predict But that demanding Google divest from Chrome is not out of the question Become an NPR sponsor Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday faced a barrage of questions about what his true motivations were in acquiring Instagram When asked by a Federal Trade Commission lawyer if Meta — then called Facebook — purchased Instagram because it viewed the service as an existential threat It was an experience people enjoyed," said Zuckerberg noting at another point that he had been debating investing in the company's photo service but that Instagram was ahead of the game "I thought that Instagram was better at that so I thought it was better to buy them," he said Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, was testifying in an antitrust case brought by the FTC alleging Meta snapped up rivals as a way to preserve its power and pad its bottom line The case threatens to bust up the company's $1.3 trillion business empire His second day on the witness stand was at times tense with FTC lawyer Dan Matheson repeatedly pointing Zuckerberg to old internal emails trying to illuminate the CEO's thinking ahead of Meta's 2012 Instagram purchase for $1 billion and its 2014 take-over of WhatsApp for $19 billion Matheson drew Zuckerberg's attention to a 2012 email exchange between Zuckerberg and his then-chief financial officer David Ebersman who asked the CEO whether one reason for buying Instagram would be to "neutralize a competitor." writing that the plan would be to buy Instagram and leave it running then incorporate "the social dynamics they've invented into our core products." In a follow up message he wrote: "I didn't mean to imply that we'd be buying them to prevent them from competing with us in any way." Reflecting on this exchange 13 years later in court on Tuesday Zuckerberg would not say that acquiring Instagram was chiefly about absorbing a competitive threat "But scale is one aspect of that and time is one aspect of that," Zuckerberg said of his thinking at the time Asked if he wished Meta would have developed its own photo app $1 billion is very expensive," referencing Instagram's price tag Meta's acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp are at the heart of the FTC's allegations that a "buy or bury strategy" propelled the social media company They allege it would take over a threatening competitor The FTC further alleges Meta has used its dominant position to stifle rivals' growth by limiting how an app could integrate with the tech giant Zuckerberg's testimony marked the beginning of what is set to be a two-month trial government lawyers and Meta's legal team will be sparring over whether the tech company operates as an illegal monopoly Meta's former chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and the head of Instagram are among the witnesses the government intends to call If the judge sides with the government and orders Meta to divest from Instagram and WhatsApp, it could devastate the company's advertising business. Instagram is estimated to represent half of Meta's U.S. advertising revenue, up from just 7% in 2015, according to analytics firm eMarketer This is not the first time the tech executive has testified under oath. Zuckerberg, 40, has addressed Congress more than half a dozen times, most notably on the subject of child safety, when he apologized to parents in the audience for any harm his platforms caused their children the courtroom questioning is focused on business decisions that Meta made more than a decade ago Zuckerberg is set to continue his testimony on Wednesday The FTC argues that the only way to resolve Meta's monopoly power is for the company to be broken up government lawyers say a judge should order Meta to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp into separate companies Meta's attorneys say it does not operate as a monopoly arguing that federal authorities are punishing the company for its success Meta points out that regulators approved the takeover of Instagram and WhatsApp at the time and that the company's services face plenty of competition from popular platforms like TikTok will likely be weighing the rationale Zuckerberg provided for the Instagram and WhatsApp buys he will bear down on Zuckerberg emails that express apprehension that an independent Instagram could evolve quickly into a potent social network platform that would threaten Facebook," Kovacic told NPR "Judge Boasberg will also consider how third parties define the boundaries of the market — what services do Meta's actual or potential rivals regard to be good substitutes for Meta's services?" something Trump supporters and other conservatives have long attacked as biased Supporters of the FTC's case against Meta fear Trump could still intervene in the case by instructing the federal agency to settle in the midst of the trial The Monopoly Go Golden Blitz event unlocks golden sticker trading to help you complete missing album stickers and complete your collection Follow us for daily PC games news, guides and reviews on X, Facebook, Google News, and Steam. Or sign up to our free newsletter There are always events rolling around in Monopoly Go but which rewards can you currently earn and how long do you have to get the prizes and Angie Craig (MN-02) are today launching the Monopoly Busters Caucus a new caucus with nine Founding Members to fight corporate greed and promote a pro-worker and pro-small business economic agenda.  “Something is wrong in this country when families go to the grocery store and can’t afford milk or eggs or cereal As people struggle under the weight of inflation corporate profits are higher than ever,” said Jayapal to health care — life in America has become unaffordable The answer to why is simple: corporate monopolies we can make a meaningful difference in the everyday lives of working people across the country – and we must “Monopolies have been rigging the system and ripping off the American people for decades politicians in Congress have let it happen,” said Congressman Deluzio “We’re launching the Monopoly Busters Caucus today because we think that it’s long overdue for Congress to step up to take on consolidated corporate power and to reinvigorate American capitalism with competition It’s our duty to help take the squeeze off of America’s workers and consumers and pave a path back to the American Dream patriotic competition back in our economy.”  “When I talk with folks in the Hudson Valley the number one thing I hear is frustration Frustration that even though they’re working hard and doing everything that’s asked of them they can’t afford to provide for their family – housing It’s inherently un-American that only a select few are able to live out the American dream,” said Congressman Pat Ryan “The reason for this is clear – in every one of those industries we’ve let monopolies drive up costs and drive down quality We’re gonna fight back against these big and powerful corporations and ultimately put power back where it belongs: with the American people.” “As the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee I have seen firsthand how consolidation in the ag industry is squeezing our family farmers and producers – and driving up costs for consumers too,” said Rep “At a time when the Administration is launching our country headfirst into a global trade war it’s more important than ever that we uplift small and local businesses right here at home I’m proud to be joining Representatives Jayapal strengthen the middle class and lower costs for producers and consumers.”   Rigorous enforcement of our antitrust laws can fix this consolidation and ensure that our markets work for all people.  The Caucus’s founding Members represent a large swath of the ideological makeup of the Democratic Party highlighting the unity around a strong economic prosperity message Joining the co-chairs in founding the Caucus are Becca Balint (VT-AL) The full livestreamed launch event can be watched here. The US proved Google ‘willfully engaged in a series of anticompetitive acts.’ by Emma Roth and Lauren Feiner FacebookThreadsImage: Cath Virginia / The VergeThe US Department of Justice has won its antitrust case against Google, which accused the company of operating a monopoly in the advertising technology industry. The ruling which marks Google’s most recent antitrust loss following its Search case says the tech giant’s anticompetitive practices in two key markets “substantially harmed” publishers and users on the web “Plaintiffs have proven that Google has willfully engaged in a series of anticompetitive acts to acquire and maintain monopoly power in the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets for open-web display advertising,” US District Judge Leonie Brinkema writes Google has tied its publisher ad server and ad exchange together through contractual policies and technological integration which enabled the company to establish and protect its monopoly power in these two markets.” Judge Brinkema found Google “liable under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act” due to its practices in the ad tech tool and exchange spaces but dismissed the argument that Google had operated a monopoly in ad networks “We won half of this case and we will appeal the other half,” Lee-Anne Mulholland Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs “The Court found that our advertiser tools and our acquisitions We disagree with the Court’s decision regarding our publisher tools Publishers have many options and they choose Google because our ad tech tools are simple Similar to Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling in Google’s Search case Judge Brinkema also warned Google over its failure to preserve internal communications citing an internal messaging app that “deleted records of chats between employees.” She adds that while this “may well be sanctionable,” the court didn’t need to sanction the company in this case as it was able to make its decision using testimony and admitted evidence is that Google collects monopoly profits at the expense of publishers and advertisers who have a worse experience with no real alternatives argued that the government’s whole view of the market was contrived and not based in reality Google’s tools help publishers and advertisers make money and the fact that it has tools in different parts of the market just helps them work well together to consumers’ benefit Google has legitimate business reasons for its behavior and the government simply wants to dictate how it can do business The decision comes as Google and the DOJ are getting ready to meet in another federal court across the river in DC for the remedies phase of the search trial. In that case, the DOJ under the Biden administration proposed breaking up Google by spinning out its Chrome browser and forcing it to syndicate its search results. 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The latter answer was a subtle nod to Meta's pushback over how the FTC is framing the case: That Meta is a business operating in the "personal social networking" market Zuckerberg says its apps encompass much more It is a distinction that could be crucial to the outcome of the case Zuckerberg's testimony will continue on Tuesday Monday marked the start of what is expected to be a months-long trial seen as a test of the Trump administration's ability to challenge the power of Silicon Valley Zuckerberg wrote in an internal email he sought to "neutralize a potential competitor." And ahead of Meta purchasing WhatsApp Zuckerberg wrote an email saying the messaging service represents "a big risk for us FTC attorney Daniel Matheson said these messages illustrate Meta's motivation: that it used its size and influence to crush alternative services "They decided that competition was too hard," Matheson said in his opening statement "And it would be easier to buy out their rivals rather than compete with them." has been lower-quality social media apps for consumers as Meta prioritizes preserving its power and boosting its profits above all else offered the judge a far different perspective He said the company purchased Instagram and WhatsApp "to improve and grow them." Hansen argued that Meta is not a monopoly because it has never raised prices on consumers noting all of its major apps are free — and that is because rival apps also do not charge driving down the amount of time people spend on their platform "The average American uses more than 40 apps every month," Hansen said "An app that loses minutes … potentially loses advertising revenue as well." The quality of Meta's apps "has improved on every objective measure," he said pointing out Meta's user growth over the years People use more of something when it becomes better Hansen argued that the FTC's case involves the "incoherent parsing of competition" to make the case that Meta is dominant when it is merely vying for people's attention in a crowded online world Hansen said the FTC is deploying a social media market definition it created that excludes TikTok "That's indefensible," Hansen told the judge The broad strokes of these arguments have been outlined by lawyers in pretrial motions over the last 4 1/2 years who will be presiding over the trial in Washington is considered the most serious legal threat Meta has ever faced Meta could be forced to break up its $1.3 trillion advertising business Experts say having to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp into separate companies could hamper Meta since user data and advertising systems are integrated across its service Government lawyers plan to call a parade of witnesses including former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and CEO Mark Zuckerberg competition laws in amassing its social media empire The trial is expected to involve vigorous debates about technical details The Federal Trade Commission previewed that on Monday Attorneys for the agency said that Meta controls 78% of a market it has defined as "personal social networks" by total monthly users which points out the popularity of competing services like TikTok Meta says the government has "gerrymandered" a market to exaggerate Meta's influence Viewed by how much time people spend on apps Meta's market share of social media is around 30% Legal experts say the outcome of the case could hinge on how the judge views these definitions It is the third time in recent years the federal government has hauled a Big Tech company to court seeking to split up parts of a Silicon Valley business The Department of Justice has asked that Google be forced to sell off its popular Chrome browser A phase of that trial focused on how Google must change its business to comply with competitive law is scheduled for April And there is a second case pending against Google in which the government alleges that the company illegally monopolizes the market for online ads the legal actions against the tech companies underscore growing public and political backlash against the business practices of Silicon Valley a skepticism that was magnified when tech critic Lina Khan headed the FTC during the Biden administration believe the tech industry power should be reined in Such moves have led to a debate in Washington about whether Trump would order the FTC to settle the case Andrew Ferguson, Trump's pick who now heads the agency, has brushed aside speculation that the case would be dropped, telling Bloomberg last month: "We don't intend to take our foot off the gas." Lights, camera, action, rewards! Monopoly Go is in the mood for movies right now, with the new Riches On Set event running this week that complements the Oscar-esque Tycoon Awards tournament The event is themed around movie making, and has players collecting points for it which have an icon that looks like a director's megaphone. It offers a variety of rewards, including the tokens players need for the latest Peg-E event along with plenty of extra dice rolls Riches On Set launched on Monday 28 April 2025 but it is only lasting for a few days as it ends on Thursday 1 May 2025 If this sounds like something you want to try out Below you'll find a list of the Monopoly Go Riches On Set rewards and how you can claim every single one The objective of the Riches On Set event that launched during April 2025 is to land on the Chance Here are all of the rewards you can get in the Monopoly Go Riches On Set event: Thanks go to the Go Rewards app for listing every single reward available in the Riches On Set event That's it for our guide to the Monopoly Go Riches On Set event. If you need more help with the hugely popular Android and iOS app, head to our pages on the next Partner Event and the next Golden Blitz event. We've also got a guide that rounds-up the events and tournaments taking place today A woman walks by a giant screen with a logo at an event at the Paris Google Lab on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris TOKYO (AP) — Japanese regulators on Tuesday accused U.S tech giant Google of violating anti-monopoly laws Google Japan said in a statement that it found the action “regrettable.” It said it has invested in Japan significantly to promote innovation as a technology leader The Japan Fair Trade Commission’s “cease and desist order” says Google must stop the pre-installation of the Google search engine in Android smartphones which it said in effect shuts out competition based in Mountain View in the Silicon Valley a judge ruled last year that Google’s ubiquitous search engine illegally exploited its dominance to squash competition arguing that it’s immensely popular because people like what it offers The appeals process is likely to take years Japanese regulators began their investigation into Google in 2023 They said they consulted with overseas authorities dealing with similar cases European regulators have also slammed what they see as Google’s monopolistic dominance Tuesday’s move marks the first time the Japan Fair Trade Commission has taken such an action against a major global technology company Boston will have its own Monopoly board game — and you can send in your thoughts on what landmarks should be on the board What follows is a lightly edited transcript Henry Santoro: At the risk of sounding sarcastic We have been doing these games for Hasbro at Top Trumps for the past 25-ish years I can’t attest to the time before those 25 years but the last four years we’ve really been hammering down the formula on how these cities work And all the work we’ve done in those four years is culminating this Boston edition Santoro: And I think big-time Monopoly fans will know that there have been Boston editions There are currently no Hasbro official versions of Monopoly I know there was a limited edition by Parker Brothers back in the mid to late 1990s And there are the off brands that are floating around Santoro: What company can lay claim to being the one to invent Monopoly Which one is it? Marano: I feel like history gets a little bit muddy There are four or five origin stories about how Monopoly got rolling What I do know is that the original is based off streets in Atlantic City is going to be totally customizable to Boston Santoro: And when the game was invented in the 1930s and it was there to promote — and critique — capitalism Everybody has that connection to Monopoly. Santoro: The philosophy of the game was an economy that rewarded individuals And it was said that it was better than one where monopolies hold all the wealth What can Massachusetts residents and Bostonians do to make your job easier with the Boston edition of Monopoly We are calling upon the public — and the people that know and love Boston — to point me in the right direction and let me know what they want to see in this edition Santoro: And it’s not just the game board that is being Boston-ized in this game Everything is going to have a Boston feel to it Marano: Pretty much — certain things stay the same as the original Santoro: Is there a deadline for submissions We’ll be wrapping up the selection process mid to late April The game is does release in November of this year so we will be back in town to finally unveil the game just in time for the holidays Santoro: And people can make all the submissions they want right there We cannot wait for the release of the Boston edition of Monopoly Your essential daily newsletter delivering trusted news and can't miss programs from Boston and beyond.