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The hire underscores Appcharge's push to win more app developers as court rulings and regulation open alternative payment routes beyond Apple and Google.
Advertisers paid more for Black Friday inventory, but stronger conversion performance still lifted returns as order costs fell 18%.
Even at Google, only 28% of measured logins used passkeys, underscoring the gap between offering passwordless sign-in and getting users to adopt it.
The update could cut engineering overhead for firms mixing web, backend and Android systems, as agents can now interoperate across five languages.
Enterprises can now build governed apps inside Looker, with inherited security and auditability aimed at taking AI prototypes into daily workflows.
BigQuery users can now forecast several related metrics at once in SQL, reducing the need for separate models when variables move together.
The move could let data centre builders use common blueprints for high-power AI systems, easing deployment of racks up to 250kW.
Businesses and developers can now tap Gemini 4 Argon on Google Cloud, as Google targets long-running enterprise tasks and cyber defence.
The revised edition reflects how AI, microservices and multi-cloud deployments have made keeping production systems reliable more complex for engineers.
New payments data can now be pushed from raw logs into a fraud review queue each day, using Google Cloud services and Airflow.
Retailers face a fresh holiday-season test as agentic assistants surge, with Forter seeing orders from them more than triple in a month.
As AI search shifts where audiences look for answers, Gartner’s forecast of doubled PR spending by 2027 remains unproven by citation data.
Enterprise and service provider users are being told to patch exposed devices first as Fortinet warns AI is accelerating exploit development.
Startups could cut admin and coding time as Google folds Gemini into Workspace and lets teams assign persistent AI coworkers to routine tasks.
The free upgrade should let cloud administrators tighten access controls and fix blocked traffic faster across larger Google Cloud estates.
Businesses can query data across rival clouds without moving it into Google Cloud first, as the preview aims to speed AI agents and cut duplication.
Early access is open to non-customers as the bank targets smaller firms that lack dedicated finance and compliance teams.
Governments and regulated industries can now run sensitive AI workloads in fully isolated environments without public internet access, Teradata said.
Average payouts have climbed to USD $6.7 million as lawsuits over web and app tracking spread far beyond ad tech, a report says.
Singaporean Android users may soon get real-time warnings as Google DeepMind and GovTech test on-device AI to spot scams without reading chats.
