YouGov: Recent acquisition boosts revenue November 6, 2024 YouGov has reported strong full year revenue, slightly north of guidance, due to better-than-expected performance from its recently acquired Consumer Panel Services (CPS) arm. As expected, revenue reached £335.3m in the year ended July 2024, up by 30 per cent year on year and outpacing guidance put forward in August, due to bumper research activity [...]
Google did not infringe on trademark with Youtube Shorts, rules English court October 31, 2024 Google has won a legal change over its use of 'Shorts' as a title for YouTube's video platform, created to compete with TikTok.
Google: AI investment pays off as cloud drives revenue growth October 30, 2024 Google’s parent company, Alphabet, reported increased revenue in the third quarter due to its strong performance in its Google Cloud division. In its third-quarter trading update, the company posted revenue of $88.3bn (£67.8bn), a 15 per cent increase from the second-quarter. However, growth at the firm’s core advertising business lagged the wider group. The total [...]
WPP breached law in Kenya over personal data of former CEO Scangroup October 30, 2024 Advertising giant WPP has been found liable for breaching Kenya's data protection law when handling the personal data of the former CEO of its subsidiary and man suing it for over $30m
Apple Watch Ultra 2 is the brightest and best October 23, 2024 We write a lot about watches at Morning Wire. Watches that have been up as far as the moon. Watches that have been down as low as the Mariana Trench. The versions of these trail-blazing timepieces that end up being sold to the likes of you and I enjoy a rather less salubrious fate, adorning [...]
AI that forgets?: Meet Salesforce’s new privacy-first tech October 22, 2024 Salesforce introduces the third wave of generative AI with their intelligent 'agents'
NHS: Google faces appeal over patient data deal with London’s Royal Free Hospital October 21, 2024 Tech giant Google is back in court this week as it seeks to defend off an appeal over a ruling to throw out a data privacy class action against it
iPhone 16 Pro review: Amazing camera keeps Apple on top October 17, 2024 The iPhone 16 Pro is not a reinvention of the wheel, rather a polishing of that wheel to an absurd degree, tweaking this, fiddling with that, and in doing so ensuring Apple’s flagship handset remains the phone to buy as we rattle towards the end of 2024. There are two items of headline news for [...]
Lloyds boss Charlie Nunn says Meta is not doing enough to tackle scams October 13, 2024 The chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group has joined calls for technology firms like Meta to do more to clamp down on a surge in scams originating from social media.
British ‘godfather of AI’ awarded Nobel prize but warns tech could ‘get out of control’ October 8, 2024 A British scientist dubbed the ‘godfather of AI’ has been honoured with a Nobel Prize in Physics, but warned of the “existential risk” it posed if technology gets “out of control”. Professor Geoffrey Hinton, born in the UK and a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada, said he was extremely surprised to be [...]