There are times when, for some mobile app developers, they’d be better off burning money than spending it on app install ads. Even though those ads may get people to download the app, more than likely, people will stop using that app within a month of downloading.  According to Localytics, an app marketing firm, only 42 […]

For the longest time, it seems that Google has been a high profile target of critics claiming that the company “encourages piracy.”  Although this isn’t a uniformly help sentiment among everyone, as well as Google constantly disputing it, the accusation has been voiced by a number of people in the music and motion picture industries. Google […]

Unsurprisingly, the European Commission (EC) has filed a third “Statement of Objections” against Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. on Thursday.  Not only that, the antitrust regulator even amended charges associated with initial shopping search case.  It looks like Google is now dealing with three different active antitrust cases in Europe, all at the same time. The […]

Twitter has been found striking another deal to bring traditional live TV programming to their social  media platform.  Bloomberg will syndicate three of its live TV shows, including Bloomberg West, What’d You Miss? and With All Due Respect, on Twitter every week day at the the same time that it’s being aired on television. According […]

In a report in the Wall Street Journal, European Commission (EC) regulators, are preparing a “supplementary statement of objections” in the existing shopping search antitrust matter  The original “statement of objections (which were originally antitrust charges) were filed against Google back in 2015. Although, in the original charges, teh EC had been focusing exclusively on shopping search, […]

It was announced by Microsoft earlier this week that they’d be cutting 1,850 more jobs, as well as take on a $950 million chare that is related to its disappearing mobile phone business.  The company has also aid that they’ll be selling off its non-smartphone “feature phone” business – still about 20 percent of the US […]

The Google offices in Paris had some some unexpected company on the morning of May 24th.  According to the BBC, the offices were “raided” by 100 tax officials.  The company has been accused of owing France almost $1.8 billion in unpaid taxes. France, among other European countries, are trying to collect “back taxes” from Google […]

In a report by The Daily Telegraph, Google is on the cusp of being hit with a “record-breaking” antitrust fine by the European Commission.  It apparently will be“in the region of €3 billion” ($3.39 billion).  Ouch. The Daily Telegraph, which cites sources familiar with the European Commission’s proceedings, says that the penalty is coming “within weeks.”  It’s […]

Not long ago, Google put a ban on payday loan ads that will cost the company millions.  AdGooroo, a paid search research firm, has estimated that Google will be losing $34.5 million in US ad revenue on desktop alone.  Even though most of us would choke at losing such a large of money, this really […]

If you’re running a Payday or high-interesting loan site, you may want to pay attention to what Google is up to.  The company has announced that they will no longer be accepting and displaying ads promoting payday loans requiring repayment within 60 days. The update to the AdWords policy even includes a ban on ads […]