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In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Google bans adverts promoting COVID-19 misinformation; Twitter sees the accounts of 130 of its high-profile users hacked; and despite a growth in subscriptions, Netflix sees its revenues decline in APAC.   Google blocks unverified COVID ads   Google has taken a stand against misinformation surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic – the tech heavyweight announced last Friday (17th July) that it will ban adverts propelling “dangerous content” related to… Source link

Google has quietly launched Shoploop – a video shopping platform that’s designed to streamline your online shopping experience. Imagine a world where TikTok was designed just to sell products online with the help of influencers and an optimised shopping process. That’s what you’re essentially getting with Shoploop. Google is pitching it as “an… Source link

CLOSE ViacomCBS is cutting ties with Nick Cannon following the actor’s anti-Semitic comments on his podcast, ‘Cannon’s Class.’ USA TODAY When it comes to job searching, recruiting and retention, diversity has increasingly become part of the conversation. Amid the recent Black Lives Matter protests, more companies are pledging to diversify workplaces by hiring more people of color, and CEO’s can play a vital role in making sure it happens. Chief executives can also set… Source link

Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL) said over the weekend that it will restrict and if necessary prohibit advertising which promotes “dangerous content” on coronavirus conspiracy theories. The policy update, which will be effective from August, will ban publishers from abusing the California-based search giant’s ad platform to promote and monetize content that relates to a “current, major health crisis and contradicts authoritative, scientific consensus”. Examples of ad content which… Source link

Google’s AirPods competitor is finally ready. The Pixel Buds are true wireless earbuds that aim to be all things to all people with a hybrid design that’s neither fully open nor isolating. The £179 earphones are Google’s second attempt at Bluetooth earbuds, the first being not great. The new version dispense with the wire and adopt a tried-and-tested approach: earbuds that slot into a small and pocketable case. The buds are small and low-profile, similar in size to Samsung’s… Source link

Credit: ID 130785653 © Andrei Gabriel Stanescu | Dreamstime.com Google recently launched the Open Usage Commons (OUC) foundation to offer open source projects “support specific to trademark protection and… Source link

At Google Cloud Next 2020 virtual event, Google announced BigQuery Omni, a multi-cloud extension of BigQuery that can run in AWS and Azure.  Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud Google BigQuery is a managed, serverless data warehouse available on Google Cloud. After App Engine, BigQuery was one of the first managed cloud services from Google. Launched in 2010, BigQuery is the most popular cloud data warehouse platform in the public cloud. It is one of the… Source link

Approximately two weeks after most activity trends in Christian County started to return to pre-coronavirus levels, the county began to see a significant increase in its number of COVID-19 cases, Google mobility data show. Using the same kind of aggregated and anonymized data used to show popular times for places in Google Maps, the tech company in April began releasing COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports to help public health officials manage their response to the ongoing public health… Source link

Screenshot from Alaska State Trooper advertisement JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Department of Public Safety accused Google of censorship for canceling a recruitment advertisement for state troopers considered to be political, but the tech giant said it was a miscommunication. The pay-per-click advertisement shows civil unrest, talks about how Alaska is different and features Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who makes an appeal for people to come to Alaska to… Source link

A YouTube video promotion for the Alaska State Troopers went viral, after it became known that the video had been banned from the YouTube ad program because it was “too political.” To be clear, Google/YouTube allow the video to be aired, but simply will not allow it to be promoted. Google, which owns YouTube, notified the Department of Public Safety late last week that it was all a misunderstanding. There had been a lot of public blowback over… Source link