Uber Eats-Order from Multiple Locations; Apple Might Lose $20 Billion a Year if Google Loses Antitrust Case; EU to Musk-Prove X Isn’t Breaking EU Disinfo Rules; Facebook Hit with $181 Million Attorneys Fees Over Cambridge Analytica

What if there are two of you and you want chow from a couple different places but don’t want to fork out the cash for two Uber Eats deliveries? Uber is coming to your rescue with a new multi-store ordering feature. According to mashable.com, the new feature on the app allows you to order from two merchants at the same time without getting hit for a 2nd delivery fee. The feature builds on the one they have had for convenience stores…now expanding to more merchants. Now, you can order from a restaurant, and bundle that with a stop at a liquor store or convenience store. One Uber courier will make the delivery, but of course, the timings will depend on “marketplace dynamics”, according to Uber, like time of day and courier availability.

We have reported here and it has been widely reported elsewhere that Google pays a ton of money to be the default search engine on Apple’s iOS devices. Now, appleinsider.com reports that should Google lose an antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice, Apple could be out as much as $20 billion a year. Previously, it had been thought the fee was about $15 billion. The DOJ says it shouldn’t be more than $10 billion. While losing this kind of revenue is nothing to sneeze at…even for Apple…most observers think Apple would pick up a good chunk of that revenue from another search company (most likely Microsoft and their Bing engine.  

The EU commissioner has warned Elon Musk in a letter that X, formerly Twitter, is being used to disseminate illegal content and disinformation in the EU” after Hamas attacks in Israel. Breton also reminded Musk that the Digital Services Act (DSA), which went into effect in August, “sets very precise obligations regarding content moderation.” Theverge.com says EU’s DSA requires X to remove such content quickly and objectively. The EU is demanding a response within the next 24 hours. It seems that this complaint will just be another one to go the the EU’s DSA compliance file, unless they decide to drop the hammer and ban X from Europe…which still provides about a quarter of X’S dwindling revenue. 

A judge has awarded $181 million in attorneys fees flowing from the Cambridge Analytica privacy case settlement. Reuters reports that the fees are part of the $725 million in the privacy settlement…and they came after overruling objections from some of the suit’s class members. Facebook parent Meta had also paid…along with its outside law firm of Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher a bit over $800,000 in sanctions for what the judge deemed their efforts to make the litigation unnecessarily difficult and expensive for the plaintiffs. 

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.