For Microsoft, their digital assistant seems to be in a bit of a tough spot. Despite the fact that the assistant has been integrated into Windows 10, which has a user base of 700 million users globally, Cortana has only about 150 million users according to the last official Microsoft figures. In comparison, this is several […]
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) now reports that smart speaker growth is beginning to level off. It could be that the novelty is fading. According to the firm’s latest survey, their analysis argues there were 53 million smart speakers in US homes at the end of September. That’s up from 50 million in June. Echo devices […]
It’s likely that Apple search ads will generate $2 billion in revenue for the company in 2020, according to Apple Insider.The report says that Apple’s search ads are expected to bring in $500 million this year, with revenues quadrupling in the next two years. So why is this a big deal for app marketers? Apple search […]
It has been estimated by Wall Street Goldman Saches (via Business Insider, registration req’d) that Google is going to hand over a massive $9 billion to Apple in order to remain the default search engine for Apple’s Safari browser. In the report, it is believed that the number could very well grow to $12 billion over the […]
Consumer Intelligence Partners (CIRP), reported this week, using consumer survey data, that Apple’s HomePod smart speaker make market share gains against rivals Google Home and Amazon Echo. The firm is saying that Apple’s device has 6 percent of the US smart speaker market. According to the report, Echo has a 70 percent share compared to […]
Back in January, then Google SVP of Engineering John Giannandrea was hired by Apple to oversee its machine learning and artificial intelligence efforts. Giannandrea, during his stay at Google, was responsible for machine learning improvements to various Google products, including search, Google Assistant, and Gmail. During that time, it wasn’t clear how Giannandrea was involved with Siri. Even […]
There has been quite a war between Apple and Samsung in regard to patents. Recently, Apple has been awarded a massive jury verdict against the South Korean company. The federal jury in the US granted Apple $538 million. Back in 2012, Apple won a federal jury verdict of over $1 billion for various patent and design infringements […]
There is a report from Strategy Analytics that says that Apple has shipped about 600,000 HomePods during Q1. In the same report, Amazon Alexa devices were placed around 4 million for the same period. Google Home sales are around 2.5 million. Of course, these numbers aren’t completely accurate, as they indicate the relative size of each company’s […]
According to Digiday, Apple rolled out the ability for publishers to use DoubleClick for Publisher (DFP) for ad serving in their Apple News content. Apple was testing the use of the Google-owned DFP with some publishers since last year. Any revenue that a publisher gets from selling ads directly in their Apple News channels and articles, […]
It was reported earlier this week that there was a personnel change within Google’s search organization. Ben Gomes is now in charge of all search, and Jeff Dean took over Google Brain and AI. This is because the former Google SVP of Engineering John Giannandrea has moved to Apple to run AI efforts there. Giannandrea “will run Apple’s machine […]