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Google’s Online Ad Antitrust Trial In The US Draws To Close
- The U.S. Department of Justice presented its last defence in the antitrust trial against Google, claiming that the tech giant unlawfully controlled online advertising technology.
- Prosecutors argued that Google monopolized markets for ad servers, ad networks, and ad exchanges, rigging the rules of the road.
- Publishers testified that they couldn't switch away from Google due to its dominance in ad demand, resulting in potential revenue losses.
- If found guilty, Google may be required to sell off Google Ad Manager. The outcome of the case is seen as a smaller financial risk compared to the ruling on Google's monopoly in online search.
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Inside 'Project Black Walnut' that sheds light on how Google thinks about Apple's ad business
- Google strategists have been analyzing Apple's potential in the ad business.
- Apple's ad business, currently focused on the App Store search results page, could expand to include ads on other apps and web.
- Google speculates Apple's ad business could reach $30 billion.
- However, Apple's reliance on Google's annual payments for default search engine status may impact their willingness to fully embrace the ad business.
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Embrace the promotions tab
- Gmail's promotions tab should not be considered an awful purgatory.
- Embracing promotions tab placement can lead to marketing success.
- Avoid tricks or hacks to prevent promotions tab placement, as they may not work in the long run.
- Focus on delivering valuable content to subscribers instead.
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Court Expands Google and Cloudflare DNS Blocking to Combat Piracy
- The Paris Judicial Court has expanded DNS blocking measures to combat piracy.
- Tech giants Google and Cloudflare, along with Cisco, were ordered to block access to pirate websites.
- The court considered DNS resolvers as intermediaries contributing to illegal streaming activities.
- Google and Cloudflare presented defenses, arguing that blocking measures are disproportionate and ineffective.
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Exploring Google’s Experimental AI Tools
- Google has a range of experimental AI tools that aim to showcase the potential of AI.
- NotebookLM helps analyze and understand documents by creating summaries, answering questions, and generating insights.
- Learn About uses AI to guide users through complex topics in a natural conversation format.
- Other tools include MusicFX for generating original musical compositions, ImageFX for creating custom images based on text descriptions, GenType for creating custom graphical alphabets, TextFX for editing and enhancing text content, and Illuminate for generating AI-generated audio discussions.
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AI is both a new threat and a new solution at the UN climate conference
- AI requires enormous amounts of energy, threatening global net zero goals.
- Tech giants may use fossil fuels short-term, raising concerns about clean energy commitments.
- AI is ushering in an era of nuclear power, which is cleaner and more reliable.
- Tech companies are investing in nuclear power plants to fuel AI data centers and meet energy demands.
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I Studied How Google Signs You Into All Services With One Login. Here's What I Learned
- Google's login system is often regarded as the gold standard for seamless authentication.
- Google's SSO system relies on Identity Providers (IdPs) and Service Providers (SPs) to enable seamless user experiences.
- The interaction between IdPs and SPs ensures secure, unified access management.
- By examining Google's login flow, we can understand the building blocks of an effective SSO implementation.
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How to install the Android 16 beta on your Android smartphone
- Google has released the Android 16 and stable update will be released around half of the year.
- The release is the Developer Preview version of Android 16 that is not for daily-use phone.
- The Android 16 is for developers, manufacturers, and enterprises making mobile software.
- For Android 16, the following Google devices are supported: Pixel 6 series, Pixel 7 series, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, and Pixel 8 Series.
- To prepare your phone to install Android 16, you need to change the USB behavior and must enable Developer Mode.
- After the two settings are enabled, connect your Android phone via USB cable to your computer.
- The easiest way to install Android 16 is using a web-based Android Flash Tool.
- One can also manually flash Android 16, but it requires a bootloader unlock and a full device wipe.
- Use a USB-C connection to launch the web-based Android Flash Tool to install Android 16.
- The compatible Pixel phone or tablet may fail to flash during the process, and you must put your device into Fastboot Mode and then launch the online Android flash dashboard.
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Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3.1 Update Released With 8 Bug Fixes
- Google releases Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3.1 update with 8 bug fixes.
- This update is available for Pixel 6, 6 Pro, 6a, 7, 7 Pro, 7a, 8, 8 Pro, 8a, 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, Pixel Fold, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, or Pixel Tablet.
- The update focuses on fixing issues related to media controls, volume control for Bluetooth devices, Material You colors, NFC payments, translations, and overall stability.
- The QPR1 update is expected to be part of the December quarterly update and may go stable within the next week.
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Passwords are giving way to better security methods – until those are hacked too, that is
- Passwords are becoming obsolete due to their vulnerability and human inability to create secure ones.
- Companies like Mastercard and Visa are looking to replace passwords with biometric authentication methods such as fingerprints and facial recognition.
- However, even these new security methods are not foolproof and can still be hacked or compromised.
- It is important for businesses to stay vigilant, train employees, update security software, and take measures to minimize the risk of data breaches.
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The DOJ wants to force Google to sell Chrome. What would a Google-less Chrome mean for your browser
- The U.S. Justice Department has proposed breaking up Google and forcing it to sell Chrome, the most popular web browser in the world.
- Divesting Google of Chrome would have significant implications for millions of users as features dependent on Google would break immediately.
- The search experience on a Google-less Chrome would look and feel different, potentially leading to innovative changes in default search engine options or choice screens.
- If Google is forced to sell Chrome but maintains control of the underlying Chromium technology, it could still wield significant market power.
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Top 10+ Companies In The World And Their Business Models
- NVIDIA develops and sells GPUs for industries ranging from gaming, data centers, visualizations, and autonomous driving. Its revenue streams come from sales of GPUs, enterprise chips, and software tools for large enterprises. Apple’s business model is divided into product and service segments. In 2023, it generated over $383B in revenue. Online stores, including the App Store, iTunes Store etc., contributed over 40% of Amazon's revenue in 2023 while third-party seller services, AWS, subscriptions, and advertising were also major revenue streams. Google primarily makes money through advertising and generated over $175B from search ads, $31.51B from the network members, and $31.31B from YouTube ads in 2023. Airbnb utilizes a service fee model that charges guests between 5% and 15% service fees for reservations.
- Microsoft's business model is diversified across its Office suite, cloud services (Azure), gaming (Xbox), enterprise (GitHub), search (Bing), and devices. Teaming up with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Starlink, and others, Microsoft is pushing research and development of futuristic space-based cloud-gaming. Facebook, the main product of Meta, is mainly an advertising-based platform. In 2021, Meta generated revenues of $117.9B, of which $114.9B was from advertising. Netflix is a subscription-based streaming model, offering three plans to watch shows, movies, or series while Netflix Originals is a key competitive edge. TikTok's business model is attention-based social media, with a short-form video format that generated advertising revenues of $11B in 2022. Uber generates revenue through fees collected from gross bookings while Airbnb charges both guests and hosts on bookings at various rates.
- Tesla's business model is vertically integrated, manufacturing its cars and batteries in-house and selling them directly through their stores. They are dominating the EV market with cutting-edge technology. Amazon has a diversified business model, including selling products online, third-party marketplace, physical stores, AWS cloud services, subscriptions, and advertising. It is also pushing its advertising business that features Echo smart speakers and advertising books. Subscriptions have been a key success at the firm as prime members spent almost twice as much as non-Prime customers in 2023.
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The Rise of OpenAI: A Browser to Rival Chrome?
- OpenAI is reportedly considering developing a web browser to rival Google Chrome.
- The browser would be heavily AI-infused and combined with ChatGPT.
- OpenAI has recruited key staff members from Google's Chrome team.
- This move is part of OpenAI's ambitions to challenge Google's business and revolutionize digital platform interaction.
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What They Know
- Facebook Messenger has uploaded my e-mail list despite not being authorised to do so.
- Facebook gathered the largest bulk of user data compared to LinkedIn and Google.
- Facebook Messenger has collected metadata from 530 sites visited over the past two years.
- Linkedin collects data on users such as name, email, job title, contacts list, followed groups, messages and searches.
- Google stores information like 12678 search terms, 10173 URLs visited, 6272 URLs advertising Google, 3677 URLs with Google analytics and 1426 interactions with Google maps and image search since 2018.
- Google also has an archive of 336 email messages sent or received since 2018, along with metadata like attachments and recipients.
- These companies generate vast revenues from their commercialised data on users.
- No privacy breach has been suspected, however concerns remain over online privacy.
- The user discovered all this about their personal information after he requested Facebook to send his personal data.
- The user was able to see how all this data was being used for advertising and marketing campaigns.
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI will 'shape' identity and that 'normal people' are not ready for it
- Former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, believes that AI will shape the identity and culture of children.
- Schmidt suggests that a child's best friend could be a non-human entity in the future.
- He emphasizes the need for global tech leaders to establish AI safety standards.
- Schmidt believes that normal people and governments are not ready for the arrival of AI.
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