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Marissa Mayer has a lot of insights into the promise and problems with online advertising. She played an instrumental role in the early days of Google Search and spent several years as Yahoo's CEO. Today, Mayer is the CEO of her own company, Sunshine, which is creating apps to do things like share photos among groups more efficiently, clean up your contacts, and remember your friends' birthdays. While none of these apps has taken off yet, Mayer's background makes it worth considering her opinion...

(Reuters) -Efforts by U.S. antitrust regulators to break up Alphabet by forcing a sale of its Google Chrome browser and other proposals to limit its search dominance are likely to run into legal challenges on grounds the remedies are extreme. After a ruling in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors argued to a judge on Wednesday that the company must sell Chrome, share data and search results with rivals and possibly sell its Android smartphone software. "It would strike me as an over-ask," said Kevin Walkush at Jensen Investment Management, which holds Google stock and is skeptical a Chrome divestiture will happen...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company's next-generation Blackwell chip is set to ship and that revenue expectations are higher than prior estimates...