google 

EU Fines Google $5 Billion Over Android Antitrust

Less than 20 minutes ago, the whopping news broke that the European Union has fined Google $5 billion €4,34 bn over antitrust and competitive laws around Android. Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition wrote on Twitter that it is time Google stop these practices and this will make them. She wrote: The European Commission ordered Google to end the illegal practices within 90 days or face additional penalties of up to 5 percent of parent Alphabet’s average daily worldwide turnover. Google currently has $102.88B in cash on hand, so…

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Bing 

Bing Knowledge Panels Cite Sources & Can Pull From Facebook & YouTube

Brodie Clark posted on Twitter that he found it interesting that Bing would show Facebook as a source of information for their knowledge graph. Microsoft and Facebook do have a partnership, of course. But still. Here is the example he used, where the knowledge panel for [portion perfection] used Facebook data. The neat thing is that they actually cite and link to where the knowledge information is coming from. Same with a search in Bing for [google] – it says this comes from Wikipedia, Crunchbase and Freebase and the text…

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