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[New] Alphabet Inc's Google expects to triple its customer workforce to support cloud computing services in Latin America by the end of next year.
[New] Amazon will take market share from the digital advertising duopoly of Facebook and Google this year.
[New] Health care is one of the most important fields that technology will help transform over the next decade, and it's a major area of investment for Google.
Amazon is expected to control about 63% of the smart speaker market this year while Google is expected to capture 31%.
Google will capture more than 20 percent of all U.S. ad spending this year, both online and offline.
Google will account for more than 37 percent of the U.S. digital ad market this year, worth $48 billion, as well as nearly 75 percent of spending on U.S. search ads and 33 percent of the mobile ad market, worth nearly $29 billion.
the market for 5G services is currently worth more than $21.5 billion: The next few years will be challenging with modest growth levels, as Facebook and Google continue to increase their share of the video market.
Google, Amazon and Microsoft are expected to release true wireless earbuds in the second half of this year.
Amazon is forecast to claim 8.8% of U.S. digital ad spending in 2019, up from 6.8 percent in 2018, while Google is expected to lose 1 point of market share dropping to 37.2%.
With Google and Amazon already dominating the market for smart speakers, it's hard to imagine that Apple or any other company will surpass them in the next year.
After rapid adoption of AI-enabled, voice-controlled smart speakers including Amazon Echo and Google Home, and increased voice integration in other devices such as TVs, soundbars and smart home devices, smart speaker sales will level off in 2019.
Amazon has added more capabilities for Alexa, the brain of its popular Echo devices, as it battles Google and others in a voice market expected to reach $31 billion by 2025.
Voice assistants, after all, are the defacto interface for engaging with smart homes, but it's not just Google that will be cashing in on the projected $53.45 billion in smart home revenues expected by 2022.
Amazon Echo and Google Home are the prominent choices in smart speakers, though it is expected that the market is expected to soon witness models from other brands down the road.
Next year, Google is expected to earn USD48 billion in ad revenue, including in competition with broadcasters for local ad dollars.
By 2020, an estimated 1.7 megabytes of data will be created per second per person globally, which translates into about 418 zettabytes in a single year (418 billion one-terabyte hard drive's worth of information) assuming a world population of 7.8 billion.
Banks and financial services organizations everywhere are well aware that within the next 5 years, most people could be doing all their banking through Amazon, Google, and PayPal - and perhaps even Facebook.
A 2% tax on revenue from search engines, social media platforms and online marketplaces will be levied against technology firms that make more than £500m a year globally.
With the number of mobile users worldwide expected to surpass 5 billion this year and over 72% of internet users projected to be solely on smartphones by 2025, enforcing mobile optimization is a natural progression for both Google and websites.
Big brands like Google and Apple showing breathtaking new AR (augmented reality) demos on iPhone 8 and iPhone X are proof that AR is going to be the game of 2019.
Google and Temasek predicted the number of local Internet users to reach 480 mln people in a year and the Internet economy to increase to US$200 billion by 2025.
Google revealed that 20% of searches through the Android Google App are now voice searches, and with the company recently announcing that its new version of Google Assistant (due to be released later in the year) it will be 10 times faster than its current version.
By 2025, Google is expected to command smart speaker device sales share of 48.1% compared to 44.7% for Amazon Echo.

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Last updated: 13 October 2019