Photo: Fabrice Coffrini (Getty Images)Last year, the song lyrics web service Genius sued Google alleging that the tech giant has been ripping off its transcriptions for display in its own lucrative search results. It seemed like an open-and-shut case. Thanks to some crafty watermarking, it appeared that Google was caught dead to rights in the…
Google Australia today published an open letter about the proposed News Media Bargaining Code on its homepage, telling users that the law could “force” it to provide them with a “dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube.” The open letter claims the proposed law will require Google to provide an unfair advantage to news media businesses…
As the antitrust drumbeat continues to pound on tech giants, with Reuters reporting comments today from the U.S. Justice Department that it’s moving “full-tilt” on an investigation of platform giants including Google parent Alphabet, startups in Europe’s travel sector are dialing up their allegations of anti-competitive behavior against the search giant. Google has near complete…
FILE PHOTO: A Google logo is shown at one of the company’s office complexes in Irvine, California, United States, July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoSYDNEY (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday said a proposed antitrust law in Australia forcing tech firms to pay for news that appears on their social media websites would…
FILE PHOTO: A Google logo is shown at one of the company’s office complexes in Irvine, California, United States, July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoSYDNEY (Reuters) – Internet giant Google on Monday criticised proposed Australian antitrust laws, saying its free search service would be “at risk” and users’ personal data could be shared if it…
The company believes that enabling such purchases makes advertising becomes more valuable. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that he’s quite keen on growing in-app transactions. “As payments grow across Messenger and WhatsApp, and as we’re able to roll that out in more places, I think that will only grow as a trend,” he said in…
Love it or hate it, Facebook still brings in 40 percent of annual digital display advertising revenue. Free Book Preview Ultimate Guide to Social Media Marketing This book takes readers through a 360-degree perspective of social media marketing in businesses. July 30, 2020 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is temporarily banning a Republican political action committee, the Committee to Defend the President, from advertising after it repeatedly shared content that was deemed false by external fact-checkers, the social media company said on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this…
New Facebook ad run by the Trump campaign (left) and President Donald Trump speaking in Ohio on August 6, 2020.Image: Facebook Ad Library/Getty Images (Getty Images)Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is running new Facebook ads that insist the president is an advocate for peace and will stop America’s so-called “forever wars.” Oddly enough, the ads also…
The hub will also serve as a resource for all the things and all the changes people need to know about local voting rules, such as if their state has expanded vote-by-mail options. It will link to information from state election officials and other nonpartisan civic organizations, it will give users a way to request…
Photo: Doug MIlls-Pool (Getty Images)In its latest spin around the misinformation merry-go-round, Facebook has temporarily restricted a pro-Trump super PAC that’s spent nearly $10 million in the 2020 election cycle from placing ads for repeatedly sharing lies, the company told Gizmodo in a statement.The group in question is the Committee to Defend the President, which…
In 2010, the Electronic Frontier Foundation was fed up with Facebook’s pushy interface. The platform had a way of coercing people into giving up more and more of their privacy. The question was, what to call that coercion? Zuckermining? Facebaiting? Was it a Zuckerpunch? The name that eventually stuck: Privacy Zuckering, or when “you are…
New York (CNN)Facebook announced Thursday it was banning ads from the The Committee to Defend the President, a pro-Trump super PAC. Facebook did not say how long the ban would last. “As a result of …
(Reuters) – A long list of companies have pulled advertising from Facebook Inc (FB.O) in support of a campaign that called out the social media giant for not doing enough to stop hate speech on its platforms. FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25,…
The days of waiting in line at CVS are coming to an end thanks to the widespread adoption of ecommerce. Free Book Preview Ultimate Guide to Social Media Marketing This book takes readers through a 360-degree perspective of social media marketing in businesses. August 16, 2020 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are…
While Google Cloud Platform has shown some momentum in the last year, it remains a distant third behind Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud infrastructure market. But Google got some good news from Canalys today when the firm reported that GCP is the number one cloud platform provider for retailers. Canalys didn’t provide specific numbers,…
The failure rate for small businesses is notoriously high, but it gets a bit easier when recruiting customers from online channels. Free Book Preview Ultimate Guide to Social Media Marketing This book takes readers through a 360-degree perspective of social media marketing in businesses. August 11, 2020 8 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors…
It’s a whole new playing field these days for music labels and publishers, and today one of the biggies made an acquisition to help it sharpen up its strategy to better understand what people want to see and hear online today. Warner Music — with a market cap of $15.4 billion, one of the big three…
