Google paying hefty price to keep search engine default on Safari
Alphabet Inc. paid Apple Inc. $20 billion in 2022 (R327.48 billion at that year's average exchange rate) for Google to be the default search engine in the Safari browser, according to newly unsealed court documents in the Justice...
X launching new ad-targeting features in challenge to YouTube
Elon Musk’s X is adding new advertiser targeting features to better entice video creators and compete against YouTube.
X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, will let advertisers run ads before videos from creators of...
X CEO expresses support for Musk after telling boycotting advertisers to "go f**k yourselves"
X chief executive officer Linda Yaccarino, who oversees the social network’s relationships with advertisers, sent a memo to employees signaling her support of owner Elon Musk after his incendiary...
GPT-powered Bing Chat getting ads
Microsoft Corp. is selling advertising in responses given by its Bing chat search engine, highlighting a potential revenue model for an artificial intelligence tool the company says has attracted 100 million average daily users.
“We recently met with some of...
Amazon could be working on an AI-powered web browser
Amazon could be considering launching its own web browser, based on a recent survey spotted by Nicholas de Leon of Consumer Reports.
The ecommerce and cloud services giant has sent out emails asking customers to participate in a 5-minute...
YouTube rolling out revenue sharing for Shorts
Starting today, YouTube is rolling out its partner programme agreement that will see creators earn ad share revenue on their Shorts views.
Part of the agreement will include YouTube introducing new "Monetisation Modules", allowing creators more...
Elon Musk says Apple has "fully resumed" advertising on Twitter
Elon Musk said Apple Inc. has “fully resumed” advertising on Twitter Inc., further de-escalating a brewing war between two of the world’s most influential tech companies.
Musk made the comments during a Twitter Spaces conversation...
Zuckerberg slams Apple App Store rules as a "conflict of interest"
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said that Apple Inc.’s App Store presents a conflict of interest, adding his voice to a flurry of criticism of the iPhone maker’s software policies.
“It is problematic...
I placed a web order for a mobile phone on 27 June 2016. The message I received on the form was the following: "To confirm and finalise the details of your order, a Telkom agent will be in touch. So be on the lookout for our call. If you would like to follow up on the status of your online...
Bots make online fraudsters billions
Almost one-fourth of video ads and 11 percent of display ads are viewed by fake consumers created by cyber crime networks seeking to take a chunk of the billions of dollars spent on digital advertising
Facebook implements adverts in user newsfeed
Facebook Inc is expanding the advertising system that lets marketers tailor messages to users of the No. 1 social network based on their browsing history, in the company’s latest step to refine its ad business.
Google search paid ads might not be worth it
EBay released a study examining whether the paid search ads it bought on Google were worth the investment.
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Online advertising revenue exceeds print in Canada
Online advertising revenues have surpassed those of newspapers in Canada and are expected to grow further in the coming years, according to a study published Tuesday.
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We have been using Google Adsense to generate revenue from our site (www.ndorfin.co.za) and have been having major issues with checks from Google getting payments returned. I heard there is a company that accepts the payments for...