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Amazon (AMZN) Web Services (AWS) is the backbone of much of the internet, counting millions of websites as its customers, ranging from Airbnb (ABNB) and Ancestry.com to McDonald’s (MCD) and Volkswagen.  The world’s largest cloud provider, it has ensured that video chatting apps like Zoom (ZM), streaming services like Netflix (NFLX), and virtual learning platforms have operated throughout a pandemic that has kept everybody at a physical distance. And according to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels,… Source link

George Washington University Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy Bill Kovacic provides insight into Facebook and Google facing multiple antitrust lawsuits. Google location data placed a suspect from Ohio inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the Justice Department said, as court documents included a detailed map pinpointing spots where the man allegedly illegally entered and meandered through the complex with rioters that day. The FBI identified 26-year-old Jared Adams by comparing… Source link

PHOTO: Kai Wenzel | unsplash Analysts these days chase down data from untold number of sources and depend on visualization tools to tame the data flood. Now Google has made its bid for Google Analytics 4 to be a top contender among convenient visualization tools by allowing data to be imported into the platform for the first time. The feature represents a major shift for the tool. Since Google Analytics’ early days it was possible to export data as a spreadsheet, CSV file or as a… Source link

Yandex, a NASDAQ-listed internet giant, has launched the world’s first free online data labelling course on the Coursera platform to address the increasing use of artificial intelligence in businesses. The course titled — Practical Crowdsourcing for Efficient Machine Learning by Yandex is available free of charge on the Coursera platform from March 15. Taking a hands-on approach, the course will be taught by professionals from Toloka, a successful crowdsourcing data labelling… Source link

A judge known as a sharp critic of how tech companies treat consumer privacy was “disturbed” to learn from Google last month that even the search bar on the public website for her court is feeding user information to the company. Now comes an explanation from Google after U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh demanded one: The Alphabet Inc. unit relies on its code embedded in the public web page that helps it serve up advertising targeted at visitors. The information collected on those visitors is… Source link

A man walks past an electronic board showing currency exchange rates at a securities firm in Tokyo on 12 March. Photo: James Matsumoto/SOPA Images/Sipa USA European stocks suffered a tepid end to the week on Friday, as official data confirmed another economic slump for the UK and futures markets pointed to a tech sell-off on Wall Street later today. The FTSE 100 (^FTSE) was down 0.3% by just before lunchtime on Friday. Data from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed GDP shrank… Source link

Three and a half years after launching Google Pay in India, the Android-maker is paving the way to tap its users’ transaction data for monetization purposes — though it plans to give them ample warning, and the option to opt-out. Google said on Thursday that it will roll out an update to Google Pay next week that will ask users to choose whether they wish to share data with the company. Currently, Google makes limited use of users’ data based on their… Source link

TipRanks Billionaire David Tepper Bets Big on These 2 “Strong Buy” Dividend Stocks Anyone trying to keep track of where the markets might be heading, could be forgiven for displaying signs of dizziness. The markets are being violently pulled in opposite directions lately, making it difficult to form a coherent investing strategy. It is in time like this that some expert advice might provide a clearer picture. Hardly any on the Street come more highly regarded than billionaire David Tepper…. Source link

The Justice Department is ordering tech companies to hand over data on users it suspects of being at … [+] the Capitol Hill riot. Google location data is proving useful in at least one case. Brent Stirton/Getty Images Google location data has proven useful to police on innumerable occasions and it’s being used in the Capitol Hill riot investigation. A complaint against Jared Adams, who is accused of illegally entering the Capitol Hill grounds on… Source link

Google’s Core Web Vitals testing tools take 28 days to gather aggregate field data, and that likely won’t change any time soon. Google Search Advocate John Mueller stated as much during the Search Central SEO hangout recorded on March 5. Search Engine Journal’s IT Director, Vahan Petrosyan, asked Mueller about this while noting the challenges the 28-day window creates for developers and SEOs. When a change is made to a site to improve Core Web Vitals, it will be at least 28 days before… Source link