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At Google’s I/O developer conference, the company rolled out a series of updates for Android app developers who publish to Google Play. Among these were two high-profile changes to its Google Play app marketplace, custom store listings and in-app events, which follow updates Apple made to its own App Store just last year. Google had been offering A/B testing for product page enhancements since 2015 — a feature that allows developers to see which text and graphics would best convert… Source link

Elon Musk speaks during a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Insider’s parent company, recently interviewed Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In response to the question, “what is your biggest fear?” Musk listed three existential threats. They included a declining birthrate, religious extremism, and “artificial intelligence going wrong.” Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed three… Source link

By Josh Beckerman Fitch Ratings has downgraded 10 Russian companies including Rostelecom and Yandex NV to “CC,” as a March 5 presidential decree and escalating sanctions “could impose insurmountable barriers” on timely debt payments to certain international creditors. The decree “could force a redenomination of foreign-currency debt into local currency for international creditors, which we would likely view as a distressed debt exchange or event of default,” Fitch… Source link

The Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange have halted trading in US-listed Russian stocks, following the invasion of Ukraine and the West leveling harsh sanctions against Russia. Among them were a number of tech companies, including search engine and cloud company Yandex, as well as telco Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), and e-commerce platform Ozon Holdings. Russia has also ordered its own stock market to remain closed as its economy and currency plunged in value. … Source link

Google said it will no longer display advertisements on YouTube videos and other content that promote inaccurate claims about climate change. The decision, by the company’s ads team, means that it will no longer permit websites or YouTube creators to earn advertising money via Google for content that “contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change.” And it will not allow ads that promote such views from appearing. “In recent years,… Source link

The developing world represents the best chance of growth for large internet companies, and today one of the very biggest set out its strategy for how it plans to tackle that. Google said that it would be investing $1 billion to support “digital transformation” across Africa. This will include landing a subsea cable into the continent to enable faster internet speeds, low-interest loans for small businesses, equity investments into African startups, skills… Source link

Google is making a change to its search results with the goal of improving the media literacy of online users. The company is expanding the capabilities of its “About this Result” feature, launched earlier this year, to also now include information about the source itself, including its description from Wikipedia and what the site says about itself, as well as news, reviews, and other context that can help people better evaluate unfamiliar or new sources. It will also point users to… Source link

Weeks after Instagram rolled out increased protections for minors using its app, Google is now doing the same for its suite of services, including Google search, YouTube, YouTube Kids, Google Assistant, and others. The company this morning announced a series of product and policy changes that will allow younger people to stay more private and protected online and others that will limit ad targeting. The changes in Google’s case are even more expansive than those Instagram announced,… Source link

Topline Proposed anti-doxxing laws could soon make Hong Kong an unsustainable place to do business, warned an industry group representing some of the world’s largest tech companies—including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook—in the latest sign of growing dissatisfaction as Beijing tightens its hold on the city. Hong Kong’s anti-doxxing law has been criticized as overly restrictive. getty Key Facts In a letter to Hong Kong’s data protection commissioner seen by… Source link

(Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared his vision of the search giant’s new hybrid return-to-work plans via an internal message from the chief executive to his employees. The plan would call for around 60% of Googlers coming together in the office for a few days a week, while another 20% will work in new office locations and 20% are anticipated to work remotely.  In his post, Pichai first… Source link