Tag Archives: Google

Imagine, you are traveling in a car and your friend is driving. How are you supposed to spend maximum time of the journey? Let me guess, you will be talking to your friend, having a glance outside or using your …

It’s 2018; women have made strides in politics, business, technology and culture. But even those friends we considered forward-thinking questioned her decision to travel by herself. We take a lot of time adjusting to the idea about being a women …

Memory often plays strange tricks, embellishing past facts while ignoring the unpleasant details that were then so vivid. As George Orwell observed: “One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary.” As Google marks its 20th birthday, its …

As most of you probably know, smartphones have the ability to gather a lot of information about its users. But how often do our favorite mobile devices actually “phone home” and share information with Google and Apple, i.e. the companies …

In an effort to increase transparency, Google disclosed American political groups’ expenses in advertising on its platform in the current election cycle. As our chart shows, organizations affiliated with both parties spend huge amounts of money to advertise their policies. Within the top …

The European Commission has hit Google with a record-breaking antitrust fine on Wednesday. The search giant has been ordered to pay €4.34 billion ($5.1 billion) for abusing Android’s dominant position in the smartphone market to strengthen its position in other areas such …

Who holds the power in international politics? Most people would probably say it’s the largest states in the global system. The current landscape of international relations seems to affirm this intuition: new Russian geopolitics, “America First” and Chinese state-led global …

According to Forbes, the world’s 100 most valuable brands are worth a staggering $2.15 trillion. While that singular number is impressive, the publication’s 2018 rankings of global brands can be further broken down in other ways that are also quite intriguing. Let’s …

From micro-targeted advertisements to Russian social media sleeper agents and doorstep canvassers armed with conversation scripts based on personality profiles, data-driven tools and techniques appear to be providing increasingly intimate and aggressive ways of engaging, persuading and manipulating voters. Revelations …

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. All count among some of the biggest companies in the world, and all can be described as tech companies. Combined, they turned over almost $650 billion last year, but although they are in the …