Internet/e-commerce

At the adtech remedy hearing, Google says it's open to giving competitors access to real-time bidding data from its ad exchange AdX, but it rejects a breakup (www.adweek.com)
2025-5-3 Google

The US DOJ tells a judge it will seek to force Google to divest its ad exchange and publisher ad server units and share real-time ad bidding data with rivals (t.co)
2025-5-3 Google

Google plans to roll out Gemini next week for children under 13 whose parents use Family Link and says it will not use the children's data to train its AI (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-3 Google AI

Uber partners with Chinese self-driving startup Momenta to launch robotaxi services outside the US and China, starting with Europe in early 2026 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-3 China Europe Uber Startup

A US judge schedules the US government's remedies trial in the Google antitrust case regarding its advertising tech to begin on September 22 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-3 Google

Filing: Amazon restructured part of its $8B Anthropic investment from convertible notes into stock in Q1, creating a $3.3B pre-tax gain that boosted its profits (www.geekwire.com)
2025-5-3 Amazon Tax

An investigation finds 70+ content-farm YouTube channels using AI to produce cartoon content featuring gore and child abuse, featuring characters like minions (www.wired.com)
2025-5-3 AI YouTube Child Abuse

US indicts Black Kingdom ransomware admin for Microsoft Exchange attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-3 Microsoft

Filing: Jeff Bezos plans to sell up to $4.75B worth of Amazon stock, or 25M shares, through an orderly trading plan running through the end of May 2026 (t.co)
2025-5-2 Amazon Jeff Bezos

Microsoft says new accounts will be “passwordless by default”, asking people to use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-2 Microsoft

Microsoft fixes Exchange Online bug flagging Gmail emails as spam (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-2 Microsoft

The Google search antitrust trial is effectively a fight about AI's future, as lawyers and rivals argue Google's monopoly could make it the dominant AI player (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-2 Google AI

Microsoft makes all new accounts passwordless by default (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-2 Microsoft

Google to roll out new ‘AI Mode' search tool to select users in the US (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-2 Google AI

Spotify Moves To Bypass Apple Payments After Landmark Ruling (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-5-2 Apple Apple Pay Spotify

Google begins showing AdSense ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources say Google tested the ads in 2024 with startups, like AI search apps iAsk and Liner (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-2 Google Startup AI chatbot

Reddit plans to add Reddit Answers, its AI search tool that was launched in beta in December 2024, to its main search bar and says the tool has 1M weekly users (www.engadget.com)
2025-5-2 AI Reddit

Microsoft Makes New Accounts Passwordless by Default (it.slashdot.org)
2025-5-2 Microsoft

Spotify says it submitted an iOS app update letting US customers use other payment options beyond Apple's; Patreon earlier said it would do the same (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-2 IOS Apple Spotify

Amazon reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $155.7B, operating income up 20% YoY to $18.4B, and net income up 64% YoY to $17.1B; AMZN drops ~4% after hours (ir.aboutamazon.com)
2025-5-2 Amazon

Reddit reports Q1 revenue up 61% YoY to $392M, vs. $370M est., global daily active uniques up 31% to 108.1M, Q2 guidance above est.; RDDT jumps 15%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-2 Reddit

Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to $2.27B, vs. $2.26B est., Gross Booking Value up 7% YoY to $24.5B, in line with est., and forecasts Q2 revenue below est. (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-2 Airbnb

Amazon reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $155.7B, operating income of $18.4B, up from $15.3B in Q1 2024, and net income of $17.1B, up from $10.4B in Q1 2024 (www.businesswire.com)
2025-5-2 Amazon

Amazon reports first-quarter earnings after the bell (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-2 Amazon

Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 18% YoY to $13.92B, vs. $13.74B est., and subscription services revenue up 9% YoY to $11.72B (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-2 Amazon

Uber and autonomous vehicle operator May Mobility partner to deploy “thousands” of robotaxis across the US, starting in Arlington, Texas, by the end of 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-2 Uber Autonomous Car Texas

In a case related to its Activision acquisition, Microsoft dropped a law firm that settled with Trump in favor of a firm that is fighting a Trump EO (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-2 Trump Microsoft

Sources: AWS is developing an AI-assisted coding service that offers features similar to Cursor and goes beyond its current coding assistant Amazon Q Developer (www.theinformation.com)
2025-5-2 Amazon AI

Replace Google Drive with a lifetime of 1TB Koofr storage in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-2 Google

Google is Putting AI Mode Right in Search (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-2 Google AI

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