After a relative slowdown in 2022, mobile made a strong recovery in 2023 according to the new “State of Mobile” report from data.ai. Revenue, downloads and time spent all saw strong growth with nearly $1.5 billion in spending each day across app stores and mobile ads. Despite further decline across the board in 2023, mobile gaming did see double digit growth in some markets, including South Korea, France, Brazil and Turkey.
Google Cloud’s new genAI for retail tools include a conversational commerce solution to create personalized chatbots, a new customer service solution and catalog and content enrichment capabilities. It is also enhancing search for retailers with a large language model to help shoppers find products more easily. Over 80% of retailers feel a need to introduce genAI to their operations, Good Cloud said.
TechTarget, the platform that monetizes B2B software intent data through a large network of websites and other channels, will combine with Informa PLC’s Informa Tech digital businesses. The results are expected to be large growth in scale across global markets and verticals and a tenfold growth in addressable audience for the new TechTarget. The move will introduce Informa Tech clients to TechTarget while combining the two companies’ intent data assets.
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.