Thanks to the new Google Pixel 9 smartphone, just $799 buys you an incredibly powerful and versatile mobile device.

Google's first-ever folding phone — the Pixel Fold — can do all of those things, but there are some major issues with it, especially when you compare it to the very best Pixel phones. It's chunky, the battery life is disappointing and the internal screen feels a little flimsy.

Alphabet's Google earlier this year offered to sell its advertising marketplace AdX to allay EU competition concerns over its adtech practices but the proposal got short shrift from European publishers,

In an effort to quell monopoly concerns in the EU, Google reportedly offered to sell its AdX advertising marketplace. Sources told Reuters that European publishers rejected Google's offer, arguing that the company would have to divest more in order to dismantle the conflicts of interest in its online advertising operations.

Alphabet's Google took a major step this year to end an EU antitrust investigation with an offer to sell its advertising marketplace AdX but European publishers rejected the proposal as insufficient,