Google’s recent announcement that “a few hundred” jobs will be lost as part of its worldwide advertising team is indicative of the company’s strategic shift toward using artificial intelligence (AI) to boost productivity and innovation. The “big customer” sales team is the objective of the deliberate downsizing, which aims to better support small and medium-sized […]
According to a sequence of tweets from Alexey Navalny’s team on Friday; a voting software developed by allies of the renowned Kremlin critic was pulled from Google and Apple’s online stores in Russia just as polls opened for parliamentary elections. As part of his campaign to keep the imprisoned dissident company; Ivan Zhdanov shared an […]
Google was fined 500 million euros, or $593 million; by French antitrust authorities on Tuesday for failing to negotiate a deal in “good faith” with publishers to carry news on its platform; a victory for media companies that have been fighting to make up for a drop in advertising revenue that they attribute to the […]
Google’s path to its massive tech campus planning in San Jose; began with activists chaining themselves to chairs inside City Hall; over the city’s decision to sell public land to the tech giant. It ends up with some of its biggest opponents signing its praises. Last month, the San Jose City Council approved Google’s plan for a mixed-use […]
Digital privacy moves from Apple and Google are forcing the advertising industry to reconsider the way it works; Publicis Groupe’s Maurice Levy told CNBC. Also, the chairman of the world’s third-biggest advertising company says; so, changes to Apple’s iOS smartphone software and Google’s Chrome web browser means advertisers will have to revisit the whole way they are working. “It’s […]
Today, we can ask voice assistants like Apple’s Siri, Google Now to perform simple tasks like; “What’s the weather”, “Remind me to take pills in the morning”; etc. in our own natural language. Moreover, The next evolution of natural language interaction with voice assistants is in the form of task automation such as “turn on […]
Google said today that it plans to stop selling ads that rely on your individual web browsing history. Additionally, it won’t build any tools to track your specific data across its products in the future. The announcements come after Google has committed to removing support for third-party cookies in Chrome. If Google stays true to […]
India’s conglomerate Reliance Industries has partnered with Facebook Inc, Google, and fintech player Infibeam to set up a national digital payments network, local newspaper reported on Saturday, citing unnamed sources Last year, India’s central bank invited companies to forge new umbrella entities (NUEs) to create a payments network; that would rival the system operated by […]
Facebook has agreed to restore Australian news pages after the government offered amendments to legislation that would force tech giants to pay for media content displayed on their platforms. The deal on Tuesday came amid a standoff that lasted more than a week between the Australian government and the social media group over the so-called […]
Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay $76m over three years to a group of French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters news agency show, a deal one news publishers’ lobby deemed unfair. The two documents, seen by Reuters and disclosed publicly for the first time; include […]
