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Google to pay for ‘high quality’ news in three countries — BBC

Google says it will pay some news outlets for "high-quality" stories that it uses amid pressure from publishers, according to a BBC report. Here is...

Apple just crippled IDFA, sending an $80 billion industry into upheaval — Forbes

Apple rendered the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) basically useless without actually killing it, writes John Koetsier. Here is the link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/06/24/apple-just-made-idfa-opt-in-sending-an-80-billion-industry-into-upheaval/

A former Google executive takes aim at his old company with a start-up — NYT

Sridhar Ramaswamy's new company is Neeva, is a search engine that looks for information on the web as well as personal files like emails...

Accenture awarded USPTO $50M BPA for designing search with Google machine learning

Accenture Federal Services has been awarded a position on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Intelligent Automation and Innovation Support Services (IAISS) blanket purchase agreement, a multi-award contract vehicle.

How Google and Facebook’s 8,000-mile undersea data cable got caught in U.S.-China feud — Fortune

Team Telecom, a government working committee with representatives from the U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Defense, recommended that the Federal Communications Commission...