Google creeps up on Amazon in the global smart speaker market. Strategy Analytics has found that Amazon shipped 4.8 million smart speakers in the second quarter of 2018. The company now has a 41% market share. Google shipped 3.2 million in the same p…
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Google Reportedly Working on Censored Search for China
It looks as though Google’s desire to access the hundreds of millions of internet users in China has won and it is willing to accept government censorship to operate there. How is Google going to explain its thinking if (when?) it does launch?
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Sting will star in his own musical. Mirvish Productions, a Canadian theatrical production company, has announced Sting will star in the Canadian premiere of his musical, The Last Ship. Based on the singer’s 1991 album The Soul Cages, the musical tells…
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EU fines Google $5 billion for Android violations. European Union regulators have hit Google with €4.3 billion ($5 billion) in fines. The European Commission says the company abused Android market dominance in three areas – bundling search engine and …
YouTube’s Broken Content ID System Leads to Yet Another Controversy
Looks like YouTube’s Content ID could still use some work. So could the company. Paul Davids had one thing in mind two years ago. He wanted to share his latest track on YouTube. Admittedly, the Dutch guitarist doesn’t have a lot of followers on YouTu…
The music business just got spanked by Google. Surely it’s now time to speak with one voice.
Why did the music industry just lose a crucial vote? And why isn’t anybody asking the question?
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Article 13 Crashes & Burns Following Google’s Intense Lobbying Efforts
Google narrowly escapes having to pay artists what’s fair, undoing YouTube’s “value gap.” But, with today’s Copyright Directive failure, will the music industry throw in the towel? The European Parliament has voted against the ‘Directive on Copyright …
Google Spends Over $36 Million to Scuttle the European Union’s Copyright Directive Initiative
Just how far is Google willing to go to avoid paying artists what’s fair? Several weeks ago, the European Union Legal Affairs Committee ruled on a controversial measure. Dubbed Article 13, internet tech giants – including Facebook, Google, Microsoft –…
‘Article 13’ Advances In Europe, Potentially Costing YouTube Billions – And Closing the ‘Value Gap’
YouTube may finally have to pay the music industry and thousands of artists the money they deserve. YouTube has long had a rocky relationship with the music industry. Thanks to the video platform actively exploiting ‘safe harbor’ loopholes in copyright…
Google to End Involvement in Pentagon AI Project
Due to employee backlash, the company will not pursue another contract for the Pentagon’s Project Maven, Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene told employees on Friday.