Google is highly dependent on Apple, with the majority of its revenue coming from search result pages and ads, controlling roughly 18% of the smartphone market.

Most users update iOS every few months, so default settings of consumer iPhones change, making Google spend more money, frequently, to keep up-to-date with its traffic.

According to a Bernstein Research analyst, Google could pay as much as US$3billion a year to remain the default option in Safari.

Tech Crunch also noted that when Apple found out Google was competing with Android, the company removed the YouTube app from iOS and worked on Apple Maps instead – so the “multinational tech company isn’t afraid of saying no to Google when it comes to iOS features”.

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The new Azure line-up product is designed to make picture and video uploads, database updates and button clicking “first-class” objects.

Developers will be able to use Event Grid to filter and route events to endpoints without the worry of infrastructure.

Microsoft director at Azure, Corey Sanders, said to Tech Crunch: “The goal here is to offer a first-class event object that customers can manage and manipulate.”

Event Grid also complements Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and Microsoft’s existing serverless offerings.

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In a bid to improve businesses by using data to generate into other third-party Microsoft tools, the company uses standalone tools for building applications and workflows.

According to Tech Crunch, Microsoft can use its own partners to support its own services, as well as “help businesses” make better use of the data they have already generated into other Microsoft products.

Both updates include:

• PowerApps — The ability to cache and save data offline when no signal is available; to embed Power Bi tiles; and to immerse apps as rich forms in SharePoint Online and in Microsoft teams.
• Flow — Includes deeper integration with Microsoft products like SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Teams and Onedrive for Business; helping trigger a workflow from inside SharePoint document libraries.

Ryan Cunningham, Microsoft’s group programme manager for PowerApps and Flow, said: “We are proving the point that there is now a class of business applications that weren’t possible before in traditional custom app dynamics.”

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