Google investors may have had a flashback on Monday to the company’s bad old days of 2015. Back then, Google’s growth looked as if it hit a wall, and investors didn’t trust the company to spend its money wisely.
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Alphabet’s first-quarter revenue missed analysts’ estimates, sparking concern that advertisers are shifting some spending to digital rivals. Shares of Google’s parent company fell more than 7% following the results.
A swathe of the world is adopting China’s vision for a tightly controlled Internet over the unfettered American approach, a stunning ideological coup for Beijing that would have been unthinkable less than a decade ago.
Apple is reportedly spending “hundreds of millions of dollars” to obtain new videogames for its upcoming Apple Arcade subscription service.
Google became the world’s most profitable Internet company on the back of search advertising. Now, it’s turning another popular Web service into a major cash machine.
The centralisation of platforms and service providers makes enforcement surprisingly easy. It’s just a matter of picking which layer of the tech stack to hold accountable.
Access-based consumption has obscured the rise of a range of fragmented ownership configurations in the digital realm that provide the customer with an illusion of ownership while restricting their ownership rights.
Microsoft has released the first preview version of its new Edge Web browser built on top of Chromium, the open-source technology that underpins browsers such as Google’s Chrome and Vivaldi.
Huawei has previewed a new range of smart glasses designed by a Korean eyewear firm that want to challenge Snapchat’s Spectacles.
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the South African launch of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music.