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Intense market competition in the Asia Pacific region means that over-the-top video platform providers, content creators and telecom operators must collaborate to boost revenues and profits of their respective businesses, according to a new report.

Vodafone has expanded the areas where its NBN service is available, launched a new 4K HDR Android TV-powered set-top box with terrestrial TV tuner capability, and offers 12 months of Netflix on its top two NBN plans.

YouTube has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that it stopped employing males of white and Asian descent in 2017 because they did not help the company reach its desired diversity quotas.

The European Union has tightened the screw on online companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, giving them an hour from notification to remove terrorist content which is posted on their platforms.

The problem of conspiracy videos on YouTube appears to be growing, with a data journalist unearthing nearly 9000 such clips after a search using the video platform's API.

YouTube has announced further restrictions on the use of the site beyond the existing rules for striking channel owners off when videos deemed unsuitable are uploaded, in a clear indication that all the steps it has taken over the last 10 months to sanitise the platform have not had the desired effect.

The algorithm used by YouTube to recommend videos related to one that a user is viewing appears to often lead to conspiracy theories, partisan viewpoints and misleading clips, even though the viewer has not shown any interest in that kind of content.

Malicious attackers have been caught using cryptocurrency mining scripts in ads served by YouTube, with Google's DoubleClick advertising platform being used to serve the scripts to users in some countries.

YouTube will drastically cut down on the number of its partners who can make money from the platform, making it possible only for those who have 1000 subscribers and at least 4000 hours of viewing to earn anything from ads.

Videos on YouTube that are demonetised due to the nature of their content are also being censored, with code embeds ensuring that they are deprecated in search results, a researcher claims.

A number of well-known brands have pulled their advertisements from YouTube after a report in The Times said the site was showing clips of scantily clad children alongside the ads.

YouTube has taken down a video demonstrating a vulnerability in the WPA2 protocol that was announced on Monday night by Belgian researcher Mathy Vanhoef.

Google's newest smartphones, with squeezable sides, a faster Qualcomm processor, IP67, no headphone jack, supposed e-SIM and plenty more as specs have leaked, so let's hope there are still surprises.

Over the last week or so, Google has been in the news after one of its employees, James Damore, wrote a screed on diversity which did not exactly gell with the company's politically correct views.

Second-quarter profits have been affected at Google and its parent company Alphabet, with the hefty European Union fine levied on the search giant and traffic acquisition costs being two factors responsible.

Some advertisers who deserted YouTube in the wake of the discovery that racist, anti-Semitic and terrorist videos were running on their ads have returned to using the service, but many prominent names are still holding out.

Google has pledged to do more to prevent terrorist content surfacing on its platforms, using both technology and humans to block such content.

Google says it has added new guidelines to take a tougher stance on YouTube videos that have "hateful content", use family entertainment characters in an inappropriate way and "incendiary and demeaning content".

A News Corporation company has plans to create a database of sites that are deemed unsuitable for online advertisers so that companies can avoid placing ads on such sites.

Some advertisers who stopped using Google ads after these were placed on sexist, extremist and anti-Semitic videos are maintaining their boycott.