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Four search engine rivals to Google have called on European Union lawmakers to address the tech giant’s continued dominance of the market by setting rules for search engine preference menus, arguing that the tech giant’s ability to set damaging defaults is continuing to limit how easily consumers can switch to a non-Google alternatives. In an open letter today, the non-tracking search engines DuckDuckGo and Qwant, along with tech-for-good focused Lilo and tree-planting… Source link

Google app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo BRUSSELS, Oct 7 (Reuters) – DuckDuckGo and three other search engine rivals to Google on Thursday urged EU lawmakers to take action against the Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit via new tech rules, saying they have yet to see positive results from an antitrust ruling against Google. The European Commission in 2018 levied a record 4.24- billion-euro ($5 billion) fine on Google for… Source link

A day after Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk turned the big 50, UBS is sending him a belated digital birthday gift.  UBS analysts led by Patrick Hummel slashed the firm’s price target on Tesla’s stock to $660 from $730. The group maintained its Neutral rating on Tesla shares. But, the analysts cut their EPS estimates for 2021 by 11% and by 10% for 2022. In an extensive dive into the EV industry’s outlook, UBS voiced several noteworthy concerns for the diehard Tesla bulls.  “While results from our… Source link

 SOPA Images | Contributor | Getty Images LONDON — Google said Tuesday that it will stop charging a fee for search engines to appear in a list of default search engines on Android that’s exclusive to European users. The so-called “choice screen” was introduced by Google in 2019 in response to a record $5 billion antitrust fine from the European Union targeting anti-competitive practices in its smartphone software. Search engines would have to take part in blind auctions in which they bid to… Source link

The Associated Press Colorado State seeded No. 1 in 16-team NIT Colorado State, Saint Louis, Memphis and Ole Miss are the No. 1 seeds for the National Invitation Tournament. The four second seeds are Richmond, Davidson, Saint Mary’s and Boise State. Seeded third are Toledo, Western Kentucky, North Carolina State, and SMU, and the remainder of the field includes Buffalo, Dayton, Mississippi State and Louisiana Tech. Source link

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has crushed almost all its competitors in the world of digital-advertising technology. But one rival is emerging as the best hope to challenge the tech giant—if it manages to keep up its momentum. The Trade Desk Inc., which specializes in helping companies buy online ads across publishers’ websites, has done what others failed at: eating into Google’s share of the market. While Google dominates that area of ad-buying with about 40% of the business, Trade Desk is… Source link

In the world of online advertising, relevance is relative. An advertisement targeting system might not live up to the ideal of delivering exactly the right message to the right person at the right time — but if it’s the best of the available alternatives, then the advertising dollars will follow.  So it is easy to understand the sense of dread felt by many online publishers and ad tech companies as one of the linchpins of the advertising-supported internet — the… Source link

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Everyone is coming for Tesla’s crown Tesla (TSLA) is synonymous with electric vehicles, but a new generation of EV automakers inspired by CEO Elon Musk’s electrified empire may be coming after its crown. Lucid Motors, which is headed by former Tesla engineer Peter… Source link

The EU has started asking rivals about Google’s advertising practices, just two years after closing a decade of investigations into the company’s shopping, advertising and Android businesses that led to €8.2bn of fines. Regulators in Brussels have sent questionnaires to publishers and advertising companies asking them about Google’s position in the online advertising market, where it acts as the dominant middleman between publishers and advertisers. The questions… Source link

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