Tag: Internet Search Engines
10 months ago
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Google Is Finally Killing Cookies. Advertisers Still Aren’t Ready.

Search giant plans to remove a technology seen as critical to the digital-ad industry

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about 1 year ago
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Google, Lendlease Scrap $15 Billion Real-Estate Development in Silicon Valley

Decision follows tech company’s review of property investments in Bay Area

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over 1 year ago
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Google Violated Its Standards in Ad Deals, Research Finds

About 80% of Google’s video ad placements on third-party sites violated promised standards, new research shows; Googl...

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over 1 year ago
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Google’s CSO Kate Brandt on How AI Can Accelerate Climate Action

She was the U.S. government’s first sustainability chief and has spent eight years at the tech giant

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over 1 year ago
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Global Executives Say Greenwashing Remains Rife

Nearly three-quarters of corporate leaders say most organizations in their industry would be caught greenwashing if t...

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almost 2 years ago
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Google Ad Software Disrupted for Publishers Large and Small

The malfunction, which lasted more than 2½ hours, affected software that places digital ads on websites.

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almost 2 years ago
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New Zealand Plans to Make Facebook, Google Pay for News

New Zealand said it would seek to require online platforms like Alphabet’s Google and Facebook owner Meta Platforms t...

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about 2 years ago
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Google Not Liable for Links to Defamatory Content, Top Australian Court Rules

The High Court of Australia ruled that the company can’t be considered a publisher of defamatory material that can be...

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over 2 years ago
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Splitit Shares Jump on Talks With Google Over US Payments

Splitit Payments Ltd.’s shares are 17% higher after the buy-now-pay-later provider said it was in talks with Google a...

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almost 3 years ago
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Disney and YouTube Reach Deal, Ending Blackout

Agreement ends a brief blackout that began at the stroke of midnight Saturday after the carriage contract between the...

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almost 3 years ago
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YouTube TV Loses Disney Channels Including ESPN in Standoff

The blackout is depriving more than four million subscribers of programming as the companies battle over distribution...

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almost 3 years ago
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Microsoft’s Bing Halts Autofill Feature in China, Citing Local Laws

Microsoft’s Bing said it has suspended the autofill suggestion feature in China to comply with local laws, while some...

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almost 3 years ago
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Didi Plan to Delist in New York Rocks Other Chinese ADRs

The Chinese ride-hailing giant is aiming for a Hong Kong listing in early 2022, further evidence of a broader U.S.-Ch...

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almost 3 years ago
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WSJ News Exclusive | NetEase’s Online Music Business Revives Plans for $1 Billion IPO

The company’s Cloud Village unit had earlier shelved its Hong Kong listing plans during a selloff in Chinese internet...

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about 3 years ago
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Google to Block Ads From Appearing Next to Content Denying Climate Change

The move by the world’s largest digital-ad company comes after recent restrictions on ads next to vaccine misinformat...

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about 3 years ago
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Ozy Media to Cease Operations Amid Tumult

The digital-media startup faced high-profile defections and pullback from some major advertisers after a New York Tim...

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about 3 years ago
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Google Faces Possible Regulatory Action in Australia Over Online Ad Fees

Competition watchdog says tech giant has too much influence in online advertising services and new regulations are ne...

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about 3 years ago
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China Tells Internet Companies to Stop Blocking Links From Rivals

Moves blocking app users from accessing rivals’ services from within those apps have become common practice among lar...

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over 3 years ago
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Big Tech Threatens to Unfriend Hong Kong

U.S. tech firms are finding themselves increasingly uncomfortable in the new Hong Kong—and they have little to lose f...

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over 3 years ago
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Google Delays Cookie Removal to Late 2023

The Alphabet unit said its Chrome internet browser will stop supporting a user-tracking technology called third-party...

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over 3 years ago
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Germany Shuts Door on Patent Trolls

The nation removed a legislative quirk that had made it a prime destination for globally active patent litigators who...

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over 3 years ago
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Russia Puts the Squeeze on Social Media to Police Its Critics

Ahead of a parliamentary vote later this year, the Kremlin has been fine-tuning its strategy to pressure platforms su...

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over 3 years ago
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U.S. to Levy Tariffs Over Digital-Service Tax, but Suspend Implementation

The Biden administration said it will impose tariffs on the U.K. and five other countries in response to their taxes ...

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over 3 years ago
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How Bytedance Could Take a Bite Out of Tencent

Tiktok owner Bytedance has already laid former rivals like Baidu and Weibo low. Tencent could be next.

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over 3 years ago
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Daily Mail Owner Files Antitrust Suit Against Google

The suit alleges that Google punishes publishers in search rankings if they don’t sell enough advertising space throu...

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over 3 years ago
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China Regulator Fines Tencent, Baidu, Others Over Investment Deals

The 12 entities, including some of the country’s biggest tech companies, didn’t properly report past deals, China’s S...

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over 3 years ago
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This Economy Grew Faster Than China Thanks to Big Tech, Pharma

As most economies in the rich world cratered last year, Ireland’s grew. Behind that success: thriving drug and tech c...

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over 3 years ago
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Google Crushed Many Digital Ad Rivals. But a Challenger Is Rising.

Alphabet’s Google has crushed almost all its competitors in the world of digital-advertising technology, but one riva...

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over 3 years ago
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Bill to Make Facebook, Google Pay for News Clears Last Major Hurdle in Australia

The upper house of Australia’s Parliament passed legislation effectively requiring Facebook and Google to pay news ou...

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over 3 years ago
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Facebook Reaches Deal With Australia to Restore News

The social-media company said it reached an agreement with the Australian government to restore news pages to its pla...

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over 3 years ago
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Baidu Hops Aboard the Electric-Vehicle Express

Baidu’s announcement that it will venture into EVs has supercharged its shares, and though it brings some advantages,...

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over 3 years ago
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Google and Facebook’s Trouble Down Under Will Spread

Australian politicians want digital platforms to pay media companies more for their content. Regulators world-wide ar...

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over 3 years ago
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Microsoft Urges U.S. to Make Tech Giants Pay for News

The company’s president said the U.S. should copy Australia’s proposal that tech companies pay newspapers for content...

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almost 4 years ago
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Google Escalates Dispute With Australia by Threatening Search Shutdown

Google said it would have no real choice but to shut down its search engine in Australia if a proposed law requiring ...

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almost 4 years ago
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WSJ News Exclusive | Americans Won’t Be Banned From Investing in Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu

Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent were among a dozen companies being examined for inclusion in a Defense Department list of...

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almost 4 years ago
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Joe Biden’s Big Decision on Tech Taxes

If President-elect Joe Biden bats the thorny question of tech taxes down the road the way Democratic predecessor Bara...

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almost 4 years ago
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EV Dreams Power Baidu but May Not Last

The company needs a new growth model. But a road trip into the frothy EV industry might prove long and bumpy.

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almost 4 years ago
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Global Digital-Tax Detente Ends, as U.S. and France Exchange Blows

France has resumed collecting what is known as its digital-services tax, while the U.S. is set on Jan. 6 to impose $1...

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almost 4 years ago
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Facebook to Allow Political Ads for Georgia Runoffs

The tech giant told advertisers it would permit political ads related to the Senate races to run on its platform star...

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