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By Cristina Carlevaro, Elvira Pollina MILAN (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has sealed its first licence agreements in Italy with several publishers to offer access to some of their content on the U.S. tech group’s Showcase news platform. Google News Showcase is a global product to pay news publishers for their content online and a new service that allows partnering publishers to curate content and provide limited access to paywalled stories for users. Showcase is expected to launch in… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Pony Ma’s Tencent Holdings Ltd. has been put on notice. Asia’s largest conglomerate was censured by China’s antitrust watchdog on Friday as Beijing expands a crackdown that began with Jack Ma’s online empire. The token fine is just the beginning. China’s top financial regulators see Tencent as the next target for increased supervision after the clamp down on Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co., according to people with knowledge of their thinking. Like Ant, Tencent will probably… Source link

TipRanks The Bottom Is in for These 2 Stocks? Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Today, we’re looking at two small-cap biotech firms whose stocks have struck a rut. Each company has hit a recent clinical setback that sent the share price falling, erasing previous gains and sending it back down to low levels. Setbacks of this sort are not uncommon in the biotech industry, and in fact highlight the risk and speculative nature of the industry. So what should investors do, when a stock collapses? Is this a… Source link

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Google is quickly negotiating generous deals with Australian media companies to pay for journalism as lawmakers consider forcing digital giants into such agreements. News Corp. announced a wide-ranging deal Wednesday. Seven West Media reached a deal earlier, and its rival Nine Entertainment is reportedly close to its own pact. But Facebook says it will restrict viewing or sharing news in… Source link

“Everything that I have heard from parties, both in the news media business and in terms of digital platforms, is that these are generous deals,” Frydenberg said. “These are fair deals. These are good deals. These are good deals for the Australian media businesses,” he added. Google and Facebook, which take a combined 81% of online advertising in Australia, have condemned the code as unworkable. Google says it might make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the code is… Source link

“Everything that I have heard from parties, both in the news media business and in terms of digital platforms, is that these are generous deals,” Frydenberg said. “These are fair deals. These are good deals. These are good deals for the Australian media businesses,” he added. Google and Facebook, which take a combined 81% of online advertising in Australia, have condemned the code as unworkable. Google says it might make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the code is… Source link

“Everything that I have heard from parties, both in the news media business and in terms of digital platforms, is that these are generous deals,” Frydenberg said. “These are fair deals. These are good deals. These are good deals for the Australian media businesses,” he added. Google and Facebook, which take a combined 81% of online advertising in Australia, have condemned the code as unworkable. Google says it might make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the code is… Source link

Google and Facebook are “very close” to deals with major Australian media to pay for news, a top government official said Monday, as the tech giants scramble to avoid landmark regulation, according to AFP.   Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai had made “great progress” in resolving a standoff being closely watched around the world, the news agency reported. Australia is poised to adopt legislation that would… Source link

Topline Google is close to inking commercial deals with several major Australian media outlets including ABC, Nine Entertainment, and Guardian Australia, following the announcement of a deal with Seven West Media on Monday, as the company attempts to back down from threats to shut down its search engine in the country over legislation that would force Google and Facebook to pay domestic media companies for news. Google is set to ink deals with several major Australian… Source link