Facebook, Google May Lose Over $44 Billion in Ad Revenue in 2020 The novelcoronavirus pandemiccan wipe out more than $44 billion in global ad revenue for the tech giants Facebook and Google in 2020 as digital advertising runs dry, a new report has predicted. According to global investment bank and financial services company Cowen & Co., Google’s total net revenue is projected to be about $127.5 billion — down $28.6 billion....
Flipkart, Grofers, BigBasket Resume Operations for Essential Products and Groceries Afterceasing operationsin India in wake of coronavirus pandemic, Flipkart has now resumed its operations for grocery and essential products, similar toAmazon’s approachto the situation. “We have been assured of the safe and smooth passage of our supply chain and delivery executives by local law enforcement authorities and are resuming our grocery and essentials services later today.”,said Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy in ablog poston Wednesday....
Google Maps Adds ‘Temporarily Closed’ Option for Businesses Due to the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak, numerous businesses had to shutter their offline locations with no way for them to inform customers of the same. Well, in line with Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s COVID-19 statement from last week, that changes today as businesses can now mark locations as temporarily closed. Once business owners mark their locations as temporarily closed, both Google Maps and Search will display the updated status to the customers....
Google Play Movies Might Soon Bring Free, Ad-Supported Movie Streaming When it comes to streaming movies, you probably never think about Play Movies as an option, primarily because the service mostly offers movies to buy or rent. However, a new APK teardown of the Play Movies app by XDA Developers has turned up a bunch of strings that hint towards the company adding ad-supported, free movies into the app. According to XDA Developers’ teardown of the APK, the following strings were spotted:...
Google Podcasts App Launches on iOS With New Features, Redesigned UI Originally released in 2018 on Android,Google’s Podcasts apphas now finally landed on iOS. The app is also getting new features and a complete design overhaul on Android, Google said in an official blog post. The company is also adding support for subscriptions on the Google Podcasts website, ensuring users will be able to sync their content across devices, enabling them to pick up right where they left off while listing to a podcast....
HP Announces Advance PC Security Solutions for Remote Workforce PC and printer major HP Inc on Thursday announced advanced security solutions to provide complete threat protection for businesses and their remote workforces. The new solutions offerings include HP Pro Security Edition, HP Proactive Security and HP Sure Click Enterprise. According to the company, HP Pro Security Edition is the world’s most advanced application isolation and deep learning endpoint protection on Windows 10 PCs, delivering enterprise-level security designed for SMB customers....
India Developing App to Track Potential COVID-19 Patients: Report The Indian government is reportedly working on an app to help track people suspected to have contracted thenovel coronavirus. The app is said to be currently in beta testing on both Android and iOS, with the initial stable version expected to be launched in the coming days. It is reportedly being distributed among beta testers on Android through anAPK, whereas iOS users are having to share their device UDIDs with the National Informatics Centre to get a unique download link....
