France Fines Google $593 Million in a Row with News Publishers
France’s Competition Authority has fined Google $593 million for allegedly failing to comply with orders the regulator had given in a row with the country’s news publishers. According to the French regulator, Google violated its April 2020 orders to negotiate paid deals with news publishers and for publishers’ right to show snippets of their content in its search results.
News publishers APIG, SEPM and AFP accused Google of having failed to open talks in good faith with them to find common ground for the remuneration of news content online. Google has since reached paid deals with some French news publishers, such as Le Monde and Le Figaro, but not with others including AFP.
Lenovo Emerges as Market Leader as Global PC Market Grew 13.2% in Q2 2021
Lenovo has emerged as the leader with 23.9 percent market share in the global traditional PC shipments in Q2 2021. The worldwide shipments of PCs including desktops, notebooks, and workstations, have reached 83.6 million units in Q2 2021, up 13.2 percent from the second quarter of 2020, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker.
The surge in PC demand continued through the second quarter of 2021 despite global component shortages and logistics issues. Elevated demand for PCs combined with shortages that greatly impacted the supply of notebooks led to desktop growth outpacing that of notebooks during the quarter.
IoT-Based ML and AI Services to Reach $3.6 Billion in 2026
Machine-Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services are estimated to grow within the Internet of Things (IoT) domain at a CAGR of nearly 40 percent, reaching $3.6 billion in 2026, according to global tech market advisory firm ABI Research. The research firm said that the next wave of Internet of Things (IoT) analytics development will fully converge with the Big Data domain. Simultaneously, the value in the technology stack is shifting beyond the hardware and middleware to analytics and value-added services, such as Machine-Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
