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Google Looks To Publishers To Start Rival To Apple News

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Google might launch its own news aggregation service as a way to compete with rival Apple News+. The Wall Street Journal reported that Google has been discussing the issue with several publishers, talking about paying a license fee to use content in an upcoming project. Google hasn’t said yet whether the service will be free.

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Google Brings ‘Play Points’ To The U.S.

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Google is introducing the Google Play Points rewards program in the United States, the company announced on Monday (Nov. The program has already been launched in Japan and Korea, and millions of people have already enrolled, Google said in a blog post. 4), according to reports.

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Happy 15th IPO Anniversary Google!

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I wouldn’t be buying Google stock, and I don’t know anyone who would. Silicon ValleyEntrepreneur, Inventor and Futurist Jeffery Kaplan on Google’s 2004 IPO . Yahoo got a second, albeit more expensive bite at the apple in 2002, two years before Google went public, with months of negotiations between the firms.

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Google Brings Play Points Rewards Program To The States

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Google is introducing the Google Play Points rewards program in the United States, the company announced on Monday (Nov. The program has already been launched in Japan and Korea, and millions of people have already enrolled, Google said in a blog post. 4), according to reports.

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Google And Facebook Scammed Out Of $100M

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This point was driven home recently after it came to light that Facebook and Google found themselves out $100 million at the hands of one ambitious cybercrook. While the corporate victims of the scam weren’t named at the time, Fortune Magazine recently reported that they were none other than Facebook and Google.

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Digital Ad Spending Now 51 Pct Of US Total For First Time

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advertising spending this year, or 51 percent, will go to Big Tech, such as Amazon , Google and Facebook , as the pandemic drastically affects the industry, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Spending has concentrated as of late on tech giants as opposed to numerous smaller sources like local TV, magazine and newspaper sources.

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360i Pits Amazon Alexa Against Google Home

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Who’s smarter: Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home? In a study by New York-based digital agency 360i, researchers used proprietary new Voice Search Monitor (VSM) software to ask Alexa and Google the same set of 3,000 questions and found that Google Home was six times more likely to answer correctly. In Other News….

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