Google-Facebook ad duopoly continues; Ajit Mohan quits Meta to join SnapGoogle and Facebook combined posted a 77% year-on-year jump in their ad sales last fiscal while the equalisation levy they paid soared 82%,...
04 Nov, 2022, 08.29 AM IST
Google-Facebook duopoly in digital Ad market continuesA good indicator of Google and Facebook's dominance in attracting marketers to their platforms is the equalisation levy the two companies p...
03 Nov, 2022, 10.08 PM IST
Meta India clocks gross ad revenues of Rs 16,189 crore in FY 2021-22According to industry insiders, Google and Facebook continue to roughly corner over 70 of the digital advertising pie in India, and this ha...
17 Oct, 2022, 09.17 PM IST
Alphabet, Meta paid Rs 1,254 crore as levy in FY21India collected a total of Rs 2,057 crore in equalization levy last fiscal, up 85%.
08 Dec, 2021, 05.30 AM IST
Mogul vs Mogul: Australia's tech law pits Rupert Murdoch against Facebook's Mark ZuckerbergEfforts in Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news has garnered worldwide attention, creating what some call a defining moment f...
22 Feb, 2021, 02.07 PM IST
Tech giants 'close' to deals with Australian mediaAustralia is poised to adopt legislation that would force digital companies to pay for news content, something that would create a global p...
15 Feb, 2021, 11.32 AM IST
ETtech Weekend Briefing: News wars split Big TechWe delve deep into the ongoing controversy, which has been in the making ever since media companies started to lose control of how their pu...
13 Feb, 2021, 10.18 AM IST
India seeing multiple monopolistic trends: Prevention better than cureThere are a few undesirable trends in some sectors where market share is becoming dominant with potential monopolistic trends.
20 Dec, 2020, 10.49 AM IST
Facebook investors don't need to fear a breakupDespite its enviable growth rate and online advertising duopoly with Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Facebook's stock has a relatively pedestrian v...
15 Dec, 2020, 05.55 PM IST
Facebook’s gross advertising billings in India jump 193% to Rs 6,613 crore in FY20Facebook’s filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC) show that FB India Online Services purchased advertising worth Rs 6,067.95 crore f...
11 Dec, 2020, 07.11 AM IST
The world watches as India tries a hard 30% cap to avoid tech's anti-trust troublesUnder India's unique rule, no single player can grab more than 30% of total payments transactions. Every company also has to use India’s op...
02 Dec, 2020, 12.23 PM IST
Advertisers don't expect a dent in Facebook ad spends in India post hate speech controversyMedia planners and advertisers do not expect the recent political controversy around the WSJ report to contribute to a dent in ad spends on...
25 Aug, 2020, 08.35 PM IST
Digital-ad downturn may complicate life for Google, FacebookSo far it's not clear how badly the tech giants might be hit. Some of the early clues are expected this week when Google's corporate parent...
28 Apr, 2020, 12.45 PM IST
Apple's coronavirus shock shows it is still handcuffed to the iPhoneApple's earnings warning is an unfortunate reminder that it remain 'the iPhone company'.
19 Feb, 2020, 06.43 PM IST
For Sundar Pichai, an Alphabet of worriesRising regulatory scrutiny, increased tax demands & threat from Chinese cos is what Pichai is staring at.
05 Dec, 2019, 04.37 PM IST
Why NPCI and Facebook need urgent regulatory attentionNCPI and Facebook both share few traits including an insatiable appetite for personal information and a fetish for hypercentralisation.
09 Jun, 2018, 11.00 PM IST
Startups say fine will end Google’s ‘stranglehold’While the CCI order said Google abused its dominant position on three counts that largely relate to search, it found no foul play in the ca...
10 Feb, 2018, 08.09 AM IST