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Late last month, Gartner made a stunning prediction, forecasting an imminent and dramatic decline in search engine traffic. “By 2026, traditional search engine volume will drop 25%,” the research firm said. “with search marketing losing market share to AI chatbots and other virtual agents.” The prediction seemed aggressive, especially given that Microsoft Bing — with its […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
Today at Big Technology, we’re debuting a new Big Tech Insider columnist, adding to our series where experts with unique insights about the tech giants— and experience within them — tell the story behind the headlines. David Kiferbaum held various roles within Google from 2015 – 2023. And today, he writes of its open culture’s […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
It’s not like artificial intelligence caught Sundar Pichai off guard. I remember sitting in the audience in January 2018 when the Google CEO said it was as profound as electricity and fire. His proclamation stunned the San Francisco audience that day, so bullish it still seems a bit absurd, and it underscores how bizarre it […]
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I put on Apple’s Vision Pro headset for the first time this weekend. The technology was even better than I expected. The device’s mixed reality passthrough was near-perfect, blending the physical and digital worlds seamlessly. And it wasn’t too heavy either. If I hadn’t found the $3,500 price tag impossible to justify, I might’ve just […]
  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital
Today at Big Technology, we’re continuing our series where Amazon veteran Kristi Coulter examines the company’s strategy and trajectory after working there for twelve years. This week, Coulter looks at the company’s shifting leadership team, and what it indicates about its direction. As you’ll see below, the S-Team has grown meaningfully after Jeff Bezos left, […]
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Last June, on a whim, I canceled Amazon Prime. I’d seen the FTC’s lawsuit claiming the company “sabotaged” people’s attempts to disenroll and thought it might be worth experiencing firsthand. Within a few clicks, I was out. I planned to return to Prime soon after canceling, but then never did. At first, I figured I’d […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
NEW YORK, NY — Comtex News Network, a leading aggregation and syndication platform for business and general news, today announced a partnership with EZ Newswire, a technology platform that makes it easy for businesses to create and publish their news. With this collaboration, Comtex clients will soon be able to access EZ Newswire’s premium publisher […]
  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital
The Information reports that “Amazon’s corporate headcount more than tripled over five years to hit around 415,000 by the end of 2022, according to internal figures … far outpacing growth at other big tech companies such as Microsoft and Alphabet. “The figures seen by The Information reveal that cloud computing and advertising, which have become […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
Rather than rounding up the obvious online privacy trends of 2023, let’s dive into the weeds. Because we’ve spent enough time and spilled more than enough ink this year talking and writing about Big Tech privacy fines, enforcement actions and the unutterably slow phaseout of third-party cookies in Chrome. That said, this article would be […]
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It’s about to get hot in NVIDIA’s kitchen. All year, competitors watched as the chipmaker added hundreds of billions in market cap and became AI operators’ go-to technology. They saw startups scrambling to rent time on its H100 chips, VCs buying thousands of them, and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang go from relative unknown to tech […]
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NEW YORK, NY — The Media Mix, a leading online publication focused on the media and marketing ecosystem, today announced an exclusive partnership with EZ Newswire, a platform that makes it easy and affordable for businesses to create and publish their news on premium outlets. Available only on EZ Newswire, businesses will now be able […]
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Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the past few days in tech. AI stole the headlines once again, with tech giants from Google to X (formerly Twitter) heading off against OpenAI for chatbot supremacy. But plenty happened besides. In this edition of WiR, we cover Google faking a […]
  1. Media & Marketing
The Top TV Advertising Spenders in 2023 In 2023, advertising spend is projected to reach $61.3 billion on U.S. broadcast and cable TV. Despite declining viewership, traditional TV has been found to be an optimal platform for storytelling ads. Additionally, advertisers can target viewer segments on traditional TV—similar to digital marketing channels. The above graphic […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
Google really didn’t have to exaggerate. When the company introduced Gemini this week — its stunning new AI model that beat OpenAI on multiple benchmarks and understands both text and images — it delivered a product that lived up to months of hype. Yet, as the company showed it to the world, it embellished. In […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
Life got interesting for Anthropic two weeks ago when OpenAI nearly lit itself on fire. Anthropic had been operating comfortably in OpenAI’s shadow, collecting billions in investment from Amazon, Google, and others as it developed similar technology with an increased focus on safety. Then, as OpenAI’s chaos rolled on, companies that built entirely on GPT-4 […]
  1. Data & Insights
Amazon Web Services said yesterday that it is introducing a new chatbot designed for business users. Its name:  “Q.” Wired reports that “it’s aimed at people who use AWS at work, including coders, IT administrators, and business analysts. In response to typed requests, it will help developers write code, answer questions about how to use […]
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OpenAI fired CEO Sam Altman today in one of the most astonishing removals of a tech leader in decades. The OpenAI board said Altman “was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.”  It replaced him with CTO Mira Murati. This story is moving fast. OpenAI co-founder […]
  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital
Today at Big Technology, we’re debuting our Big Tech Insider column, where experts with unique insights about the tech giants— and experience within them — tell the story behind the headlines. We’re starting with a three-part series by Kristi Coulter, a longtime Amazon veteran, who will take us inside the company to decode its mysteries. […]
  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital
Amazon announced late yesterday that its third quarter net sales increased 13 percent to $143.1 billion, compared with $127.1 billion during the same period a year ago.  Q3 net income increased to $9.9 billion in the third quarter, compared with $2.9 billion a year ago. The increase in profit coincides with the cost-cutting efforts implemented […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
The New Yorker has a piece in which it looks to assess what may be achieved in the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust suit against Amazon. “The government’s success could depend, among other things, on how much it can persuade the court to recognize the deficiencies of the prevailing antitrust framework,” the story says, adding […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
Some things just never work. At least not for building brands or value propositions. Yet, over and over again, we keep trying to make a go of these things. So, today, I want to share my list of things that I believe are dead-ends for brands—things that seem promising but turn out mostly to be […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
On a Saturday night in mid-September, a senior Google engineer shared some rough news with more than fifty colleagues. Part of the company’s cloud services offering was failing Anthropic, a darling AI startup and key strategic customer, and they’d have to work overtime to fix it.  Subscribe now To repair the faulty part of its […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
There continues to be significant analysis of and reaction to the decision by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the attorneys general of 17 states to file a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, charging the company with business practices that abuse the third part sellers on its Marketplace, forcing them to pay high fees for […]
  1. Trends & External Forces
As we reported yesterday in an afternoon breaking news alert, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the attorneys general of 17 states have filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, charging the company with business practices that abuse the third part sellers on its Marketplace, forcing them to pay high fees for services that result […]
  1. Retail Ecosystem
Hi Everyone, Hope your week is going well. I am writing with a short newsletter today to share that I just sat down with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky and published the interview on the Big Technology Podcast feed this morning.  We talked about so much, including cleaning fees, building product, the difference between Amazon and […]
  1. Channel: Delivery
Instacart has made its initial public offering (IPO), pricing its stock at $30 per share and valuing the grocery delivery and technology company at approximately $10 billion. Instacart, which will trade on the NASDAQ under the symbol “CART,” sold 22 million shares in the IPO, with 14.1 million coming from the company and 7.9 million […]
  1. Channel: Delivery
Instacart has made its initial public offering (IPO), pricing its stock at $30 per share and valuing the grocery delivery and technology company at approximately $10 billion. Instacart, which will trade on the NASDAQ under the symbol “CART,” sold 22 million shares in the IPO, with 14.1 million coming from the company and 7.9 million […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
I entered this summer with some major unanswered questions about AI. I wanted to know where AI research labs would aim next, how Big Tech incumbents would respond, and what types of AI startups would break through. So I asked some of the world’s leading AI experts. In there consecutive weeks, while this newsletter took […]
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Target reported Q4 and 2023 financial results at its annual investor day on March 5, 2024. Quarterly comp performance improved sequentially from Q2 to Q4, but 2023 ended with comps down -3.7%. Profitability outperformed expectations as the company realized $2B of operating income growth in 2023 and reported notable gross margin improvements. The stock was […]
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