The ruling drew support from founders, while lawyers said it could force platforms to revisit how they handle trademarked keywords.
The Delhi High Court held that letting competitors bid on the trademark ‘Hindware’ as an ad keyword is infringement, and that Google’s safe-harbour shield does not cover it. The business of search advertising rests on a quiet assumption: that a platfor…
One UI 9 is bringing a unified call log to Samsung’s Phone app, combining WhatsApp, Google Meet, and regular calls in one place.
Google Home is rolling out a new Gemini-powered automation feature that can trigger smart home routines based on what your security cameras can see. This is one of several updates announced yesterday for Gemini for Home, including enhanced voice command support and general stability improvements, following its early access launch in October. “We are introducing […]
Michele Spagnuolo allegedly traded under the handle ‘AlphaRaccoon’, netting $1.2m on Google’s Year-in-Search outcomes. It is the second federal criminal case tied to Polymarket. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged Mich…
According to the complaint, a Google engineer risked over $2.7 million on wagers related to Google’s 2025 Year in Search campaign.
Google is embarrassing itself, again.
Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud after he allegedly made $1.2 million on Polymarket bets related to Search-related trends in 2025, as reported earlier by ABC News. In their now-unsealed complaint, prosecutors allege that Michele Spagnuolo “knew the outcome of these wagers before the trading public did because he had accessed Google’s confidential, […]
Motorola says that recently discovered behavior, which saw some of its phones sending users to an affiliate tracking website before opening the Amazon app, was “unintended” and has been “promptly corrected.” The company didn’t explain how the error was introduced in the first place. “Recently, Motorola acted quickly to resolve an issue that was identified, […]
A study of 75,000 brands by SEO platform Ahrefs has found that YouTube mentions are the strongest correlated signal for whether a brand appears in AI-generated search results, outperforming every other factor the researchers tested across ChatGPT, Goog…