Agency and TV network executives expect a slower pace to this year’s dealmaking cycle, as advertisers’ budgets stay soft.
WNBA’s A’ja Wilson has landed a major marketing deal weeks after being at the center of controversy. Two weeks ago, it was reported that Caitlin Clark would be signing a massive deal with Nike to start a signature shoe line, which led to people like Jemele Hill asking why Wilson hadn’t received a similar deal. […]
Synergy Research Group has released its latest data on business trends in the cloud computing market. The three major companies involved in the lucrative business are racking up huge amounts of money, aided "in no small part" by the hype surrounding generative AI services.Read Entire Article
Mountain View: For India and other emerging countries, technology should serve opportunities to leap ahead, said Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google at an international media panel here on Wednesday. "India was never going to cross the developed world in personal computing penetration but on mobile more people got access as a percentage of the population than the prior generation. People didn't have landlines, but most people got cell phones. With each technology shift you have a better...
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggested that the U.S. and China are at different stages of A.I. development, with the U.S. becoming more advanced. Schmidt outlined four reasons China may need help to match the U.S. in A.I.In a Bloomberg interview on Tuesday, Schmidt declared that the U.S. holds a solid two-to-three-year advantage over China in A.I. That's a significant lead in this field, he noted. Following his tenure as Google's CEO (2001-2011) and chairman (until 2015), Schmidt has deviated...
In a recent earnings call, Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp made a bold assertion that the company has no competitors in the U.S. commercial and government sectors. read more
Over the past week, many have been windblown by Statcounter reporting that Google lost significant market share in the US and worldwide from March to April 2024. It turns out it was some sort of reporting bug, and Statcounter updated the data over the weekend.Folks like Glenn Gabe and Danny Goodwin immediately called out that the data seems to be wrong and they were right. Goodwin posted a story on Sunday about this as well.Originally and mistakenly, Statcounter showed Google's U.S. search...
YouTube's videos have been used to help companies with AI model training.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra said that the company will push forward with its operations in China despite a whopping loss in the country in the first quarter of 2024.Barra recently visited China and promised that GM remained committed to the market, which has been a mainstay for the manufacturer since 1997. A $106 million loss in the first quarter in China was just GM's third quarterly loss in the far east in the last 15 years, CNBC reported, but the company announced that it expects the...
Google and its CEO Sundar Pichai will take action should it find that OpenAI misused YouTube's data.
Elizabeth Matthews applauds UMG's stance in its dispute with ByteDance's platform Source
Mark Read, CEO of London-based advertising firm WPP, told employees that bad actors used his voice and likeness to trick executives into sending over money and personal information.