Angela Lang/CNET To keep YouTube humming, Google has developed a custom chip to keep YouTube… Source link

The publisher of one of the world’s most popular news sites is suing Google and its parent company, Alphabet, alleging that the internet giant manipulates search engine results as punishment and abuses its dominance over the online advertising market. The lawsuit filed against Google and Alphabet GOOGL, -0.73% in New York by Associated Newspapers and Mail Media on Tuesday marks the start of a high-profile digital media skirmish, at a time when the… Source link

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Progressive activists are calling on Ford, Target, Google, Bank of America and other major companies that have pledged to support voting rights to cut ties with the US Chamber of Commerce, CNN Business has learned. At issue is the Chamber of Commerce’s fierce opposition to the Democrats’ sweeping voting bill known as the For the People Act, which advocates say would counter efforts by Georgia and other states to impose new voting restrictions. The Chamber of Commerce has Source link

Netflix’s (NFLX) striking miss on first-quarter subscriber additions vindicated some analysts’ views that the future growth prospects for the company would start to dwindle once users started going out again after the COVID-19 pandemic. While others remain bullish on the streaming giant. “Netflix, they’re in a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation. Investors are now demanding cash flow. They burned through tens of billions of dollars building the platform,” David Trainer, chief… Source link

In light of this week’s bombshell sports news that has several top European soccer clubs were choosing to form a Super League, information leaked Tuesday via Golfweek about the PGA Tour’s efforts to keep its star golfers from breaking away for larger paydays elsewhere. The PGA Tour later confirmed to ESPN that it has created a $40 million pool to reward its top stars as it continues to stamp down the long-rumored… Source link

GlobeNewswire Insights on the In-Application Advertising Global Market to 2026 – by Advertisement Type, Application and Region Dublin, April 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “In-Application Advertising Market 2020-2026” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The global in-application advertising market is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 17.8% during the forecast period. The growth of the market is influenced by the growing penetration of smartphones coupled with internet… Source link

The update patches a total of seven security flaws in the desktop versions of the popular web browser Google has released an update for its Chrome web browser that fixes a range of security flaws, including a zero-day vulnerability that is known to be actively exploited by malicious actors. The bugs affect the Windows, macOS, and Linux versions of the popular… Source link

The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News. The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory”… Source link

Google today announced a major update to Meet, its video-meeting service, which brings several user interface tweaks for desktop users, as well as quite a bit of new functionality, including multipinning so that you can highlight multiple feeds instead of just one, as well as new AI-driven video capabilities for light adjustments, autozoom and a new Data Saver feature that limits data usage on slower mobile networks. If you’re anything like me, you’re increasingly tired of video meetings (to… Source link