Google is offering a publishers a new control in its robots.txt indexing file, allowing them to limit the scraping of its Bard AI.
After acquiring Whooshkaa in 2021, Spotify now adds the ability for publishers to take existing radio broadcasts and make them podcasts.
In yet another antitrust lawsuit, Google is being sued for favouring its own services thanks to its adtech practices.
With draft legislation submitted last week to the Competition Commission, the PSS is calling on other publishers to join the fight.
Local media owners have joined forces to challenge Google and Meta (Facebook) to be compensated for their content used on those platforms.
In its second year, the Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge is accepting applications until 12th April for creative news solutions.
With the Australian government continuing with its News Media Bargaining Code, Google says it would have no choice but to pull its services.
The response from Facebook follows Google’s reaction to an Australian law which would give news publishers a bigger cut of ad revenue.
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