Atlassian, a Sydney-headquartered software company, plans to invest in setting up data centers in India in H1 2024. The company is betting on India’s growing economy and talent landscape to drive growth.
I’m still not sure whether I care that TikTok is adding paid search ads to its feed. I mean, they sold ads already. But it’s another crack in the wall of Google’s search ad garden, so maybe something to consider as evidence of the shifting landscape.
Alphabet’s Google, which is spending billions of dollars globally to compete with Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud space, is considering plans to build more data centres in the Middle East, a key market and one of fastest growing regions for the company’s business. The company, which is already building data centres in Saudi Arabia and Qatar and has just opened a new cloud region in Israel.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.