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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Google Is Paying Apple a Lot of Money Not to Build a Search Engine. It's Just Not Worth It - Inc.com    Of all the things we've learned from the United States v. Google trial, almost none of it comes as a surprise. There are certainly interesting stories about how Microsoft tried to get the iPhone maker to buy Bing, but Apple didn't bite because it just makes too much money by making Google's search engine the default in Safari.  I think David Pierce, in a piece for The Verge, is correct. He makes the case that the contract between Apple and Google is the most important agreement in the tech industry. I think that's probably true. Google is the world's largest search engine. Safari is the world's most important mobile browser.  Keeping Google as the default search engine brings Apple an estimated $10 billion to $15 billion a year. That's a lot of money, for sure. It's an even more impressive sum when you consider that the cost of that to Apple is basically zero. It's not like there is engineering or server overhead to Apple for funneling search queries to Google. It's free money, and it's almost all profit. In fact, it's probably the most profitable part of Apple's services business. Continued here The MedTech Billionaire Waging A Patent War With Apple - Forbes    In May 2013, Joe Kiani, the founder and CEO of medical technology company Masimo, went to a meeting at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino to discuss a potential collaboration. The consumer technology giant was in the process of developing the Apple Watch and exploring ways to incorporate different health sensors. Founded in 1989, Masimo is best known for its pulse oximeters – fingertip devices used by hospitals to measure the level of oxygen in patients’ blood. “I didn't want to be in the consumer space ourselves,” says Kiani. “I thought Apple would be a great partner to take our technology and make it available to the masses.” Masimo was one of 28 companies that Apple met with related to the Apple Watch project. Internally, Apple executives were weighing a potential Masimo acquisition, but ultimately decided against it because Masimo’s hospital-focused products were outside of Apple’s core consumer focus. “Acquisitions of this size aren’t our style,” Adrian Perica, Apple’s vice president of corporate development wrote in an email update to CEO Tim Cook. Ten years later, Apple and the company it rejected are embroiled in a multi-front legal battle over the Apple Watch. Apple commands over 56% of the global smartwatch market, which is expected to hit $33 billion in 2023, according to research firm IDC. The firm forecasts the larger global wearables market will hit nearly $63 billion. Continued here Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Like human armies, army ants trail crowds of hangers-on - The Economist    Like human armies, army ants spell trouble for anything that finds itself in their path. The insects make a habit of killing organisms, often much larger than themselves, breaking them into pieces and dragging the morsels back to their bivouacs. But they do not eat everything. Rubbish piles full with discarded bits of prey are a feature of army ant bases. Where there is carrion, there are usually scavengers. But little is known about which animals scavenge on army ant leavings. As recounted in a paper in Ecology & Evolution, Christoph von Beeren at the Technical University of Darmstadt and Daniel Kronauer at the Rockefeller University in New York, both entomologists, went to the rainforests of Costa Rica to find out. They found an entire ecosystem in miniature thriving among the leftovers. Tracking scavengers such as vultures or hyenas on the savannah can be done with a folding chair and a pair of binoculars. Monitoring tiny insects in a rainforest is much trickier—one reason why ant scavengers had not been examined before. But the researchers hoped modern DNA analysis techniques might make the job manageable. Working with a team of colleagues, they followed ant trails back to their bivouacs, finding 34 sites in total. Continued here How America's biggest retailers plan to use technology to catch organized retail theft - CNBC    Artificial intelligence is rapidly taking root in almost every field, and though the balance between theoretical potential and productivity will only become clear over time, one new test is taking place in the world of big-box retail, where AI is being used in tandem with anti-theft technology to fight against a growing wave of organized retail crime. Large-scale theft of merchandise has been rising in the past few years, costing retailers billions in losses and endangering shoppers and employees, from the stores to distribution and in the supply chain. Walmart, Target, Lowe's, Kroger, Macy's, CVS and other major retailers are teaming up with technology companies to develop and deploy next-generation video surveillance systems, facial-recognition cameras, license-plate and vehicle readers, autonomous security robots, radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, smart case locks and predictive analytic software. While versions of this type of security tech have been in place for years, they're now being superpowered by AI. Continued here

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