Something that I found rather nice, in an age where companies seem to always play cutthroat with each other, Google and Microsoft have agreed to play nice with each other.  The companies have decided to stop filing complaints about one another with regulators around the world.  In a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report, this was prompted […]

It comes as no surprise, but Google has finally been hit with a formal “Statement of Objections” (antitrust charges) by the European Commission in regards to the Android OS and related practices.  The focus of the charges are the requirement that handset makers pre-install selected Google apps, like Chrome, in exchange for access to the Google […]

Yesterday was Facebook’s annual developers conference, otherwise known as F8.  During their conference, the company made it clear that they want to make sure Messenger is the new way that businesses can connect with people by pushing the platform and their new bot support. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, took the attendees of the conference […]

The research firm Outsell has released their Annual Advertising and Marketing Study.  The study is based on a survey of marketers that outlines both traditional and digital media spending trends for 2016.  The data was pulled from an online survey of 1,500 B2B and B2C  marketers in the US.  The study also spans 36 categories. According to the […]

Back in February of 2015, Yandex, the top Russian search engine asked the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) to initiate an antitrust investigation into Google’s control over the Android platform.  According to Yandex, Google was given an unfair advantage through the required pre-installation of Google apps on Android handsets in Russia. In September […]

In a report by Bloomberg, it is said that the European Commission (EC) is about to file an antitrust complaint over the Android operating system.  The outlet is citing “three people familiar with the probe.” Despite this news, Bloomberg is saying that a final decision hasn’t been made yet.  The Android-OEM contracts and app-install requirements have […]

There is a case called Weiss v. Google Inc., and in it, plaintiff Joseph Weiss has filed what could be a potential class action against Google accusing Google of stealing “face templates” from Google Photos without permission. This case has been filed in Illinois Northern District Court, and is accusing Google of violating the Illinois Biometric […]

The leading Russian search engine, Yandex, has reported that they have an 18-percent increase in year-over-year revenue gains for 2015, climbing to $820.4 million, or 59.8 billion RUB during the year. During the last quarter of 2015, Yandex owned an averaged of 57.3 percent of the Russian search market. The COO of Yandex, Alexander Shulgin says […]

Amazon, who is making their first ever appearance as a Super Bowl advertiser this year, is using its game day spot to promote the Echo device.  For their ad, Amazon has enlisted the talent of Alec Baldwin to be its pitchman.  The company has even given over the official campaign hastag, #BaldwinBowl, to the actor. Not only […]

Sunday, January 24 saw an exodus of at least four executives from Twitter to find their own ways, and most of the news came directly through Twitter itself.  These executives were rumored to have been the heads of engineering, product, media and Vine. Jack Dorsey posted hours later that these individuals left the company on their […]