The UK House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee is to question representatives from Amazon and Google about the future of their smart devices and data protection. The Committee is expected to ask about the level of data collected by devices and cybersecurity, which the Government has said “continues to be an afterthought […]
The National Football League has announced a multi-year agreement with Google granting YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels the right exclusively to distribute NFL Sunday Ticket to consumers in the US starting with the 2023 NFL season. According to the NFL, the strategic partnership will provide fans greater access to NFL Sunday Ticket while tapping […]
Data insights from the Plume Cloud reveal that broadband network performance is improving, the number of cyber threats is growing exponentially, and Google wins the battle of the brands with households adding more connected devices than Apple. Plume IQ examines the major trends in Plume-powered smart homes in 2022 (November 1st 2021 to November 30th) […]
VIDAA, a smart TV operating system and streaming platform, and a subsidiary of Hisense has announced an agreement for Google TV and other Android TV OS devices to carry VIDAA’s sports content, which includes FIFA+. As a long-term partner of VIDAA, Tremor International, an end-to-end digital advertising technology platform specialised in Connected TV, video, and […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a market investigation into cloud gaming and mobile browsers after receiving widespread support for its proposals first published in June 2022. The CMA consulted on launching a market investigation alongside its Mobile Ecosystem Market Study report, which found that Apple and Google have an effective duopoly […]
We’re nearly at the end of 2022 – and the smart TV arena wars are heating up. Android TV, in particular, is finally living up to its potential to shake the market. Outside of the Asia-Pacific region, Google’s smart TV operating system is now the third-largest platform. Even more impressively, Android TV managed to accomplish […]
Spain’s Telefónica is seeking compensation from the US online giants – such as Google, Amazon, Meta/Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix – for the ‘over use’ of its network. The president of Telefónica, José María Álvarez-Pallete, has requested that tech companies that use more than 5 per cent of the network’s operations should pay them compensation. “We […]
The media organisations that now make up TNI’s new Asia-Pacific network have received training, funded by the Google News Initiative, to help their journalists navigate the disinformation environment. The TNI is an industry collaboration of major news and global tech organisations, led by the BBC, working together to stop the spread of disinformation where it […]
Sky’s streaming service, NOW, is now available on Google TV devices, including Chromecast with Google TV and eight of the UK’s most popular smart TV brands as it expands across Android TV OS devices. The latest Android roll-out makes the NOW app available on the latest models of Google TV devices, including Chromecast with Google […]
Interbrand has announced its Best Global Brands 2022 ranking at Web Summit 2022. Apple holds onto the number one position for its 10th consecutive year, while Microsoft has moved up into second place, overtaking Amazon. Microsoft, Tesla and Chanel have seen the greatest YoY percentage growth, all increasing brand value by 32 per cent. Despite […]