The traditional dominance of Google and Facebook in digital advertising is facing a growing challenge from Amazon.com Inc., TikTok and streaming services, new research says. In 2022, Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, -0.85% GOOG, -0.93% Google, Meta Platforms Inc.’s META, +2.41% Facebook and their respective subsidiaries accounted for a combined 48.4% of U.S. digital-ad spending, according to estimates… Source link
Read More »Google and Facebook’s digital-ad dominance challenged by rapid ascent of Amazon and TikTok
The traditional dominance of Google and Facebook in digital advertising is facing a growing challenge from Amazon.com Inc., TikTok and streaming services, new research says. In 2022, Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, -1.48% GOOG, -1.46% Google, Meta Platforms Inc.’s META, +1.88% Facebook and their respective subsidiaries accounted for a combined 48.4% of U.S. digital-ad spending, according to estimates… Source link
Read More »Google’s stranglehold on the mapping space could be challenged by new initiative from Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and others
Meta, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and mapping company TomTom have launched a new mapping initiative in partnership with The Linux Foundation that could challenge the dominance Google holds in the mapping world, TechCrunch reports. The recently launched Overture Maps Foundation aims to encourage the development of new map products with openly available databases members can contribute to and reuse across companies and apps. It will additionally use open data that already exists from… Source link
Read More »Musk’s $44 billion Twitter buyout challenged in shareholder lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Elon Musk and Twitter Inc were sued on Friday by a Florida pension fund seeking to stop Musk from completing his $44 billion takeover of the social media company before 2025. In a proposed class action filed in Delaware Chancery Court, the Orlando Police Pension Fund said Delaware law forbade a quick merger because Musk had agreements with other big Twitter shareholders, including his financial adviser Morgan Stanley and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, to support… Source link
Read More »Buffalo worker blasts ‘union-busting’ Starbucks as results at 1 cafe are challenged
Workers at one Starbucks (SBUX) Store in Buffalo, New York, won a contentious victory last week by becoming the coffee giant’s first unionized workplace. Yet after votes were counted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a second cafe on Camp Road narrowly rejected the measure, an outcome organizers plan to challenge. Union organizers and their attorney claim there were “voices” that weren’t heard. “I don’t accept that as the full number at the end of the day, it being 12… Source link
Read More »Megan Rapinoe challenged Draymond Green’s take on equal pay
As a loaded Saturday Sweet 16 slate tipped off with a heavyweight women’s matchup between UConn and Iowa, Draymond Green weighed in on the equal opportunity conversation that’s dominated March. The Golden State Warriors forward posted a lengthy Twitter take touching on topics like gaps in pay and media exposure in men’s and women’s sports. He invited “lady hoopers” to join the conversation, and some did. As did soccer star Megan Rapinoe, a fierce advocate for women’s rights in sports and… Source link
Read More »Annulment of Yandex brand protection challenged in Russia’s IP Court
17:37 20/07/2020 MOSCOW, July 20 (RAPSI) – Yandex company filed an application against Russia’s Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) which had invalidated legal protection of Yandex Afisha brand, according to the Intellectual Property Court (IP Court). In April, the Chamber for Patent Disputes of Russia’s Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) met a request of Afisha company, a structure of Rambler Group, seeking to annul legal protection of Yandex… Source link
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