Topic: market share
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ChatGPT Dominates the AI Chatbot Race - But Can It Last?
OpenAI's ChatGPT currently dominates the AI chatbot market with an 80.92% global share, but emerging competitors and shifting user habits challenge its long-term leadership. There is a significant shift in AI chatbot usage from desktop to mobile platforms, with mobile reach growing by 5.3% and ma...
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Pew: X Defies Competition, Holds Strong in U.S. Social Media
X remains the dominant platform for real-time, short-form text in the U.S., with 21% of adults using it, despite new competitors like Threads and Bluesky gaining minimal traction. User adoption of emerging platforms is low, with Threads at 8% and Bluesky at 4% of U.S. adults, and X's usage has re...
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PlayStation CEO Forced PS5 Price Cut in Japan After Switch 2 Slump
Sony is launching a budget-friendly, Japanese language-only PS5 model to counter Nintendo's upcoming Switch 2 and regain market share in Japan under new CEO Hideaki Nishino's aggressive leadership. The company faces financial risks due to rising manufacturing costs but sees this as a necessary in...
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Linux Gaming on Steam Surpasses 3% Milestone in October 2025
Linux gaming on Steam surpassed 3% of the user base for the first time in October 2025, driven by the Steam Deck and Proton compatibility improvements. The Steam Hardware Survey showed Linux at 3.05%, with SteamOS leading the ecosystem due to the Steam Deck's popularity, while Windows usage decli...
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Top CMS Market Share Leaders in 2025
WordPress remains the dominant CMS with 43.3% of all websites, but its market share is declining, returning to 2018 levels. Managed SaaS solutions like Shopify, Wix, and Squarespace are gaining popularity due to their simplicity, lower technical overhead, and strong performance. The use of custom...
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Genetec Gains Global Access Control Market Share, Omdia Reports
Genetec Inc. has become the second-largest global provider of access control software, achieving the highest organic market share growth in on-premises solutions and expanding its presence worldwide. The company is one of the fastest-growing vendors in the Access Control as a Service (ACaaS) sect...
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Beyond Google: Discover the Top Search Engines You Haven't Heard Of
Google's search dominance is declining as users increasingly turn to alternative platforms like AI tools, privacy-focused engines, and social media for information and purchases. Different search platforms attract distinct demographics, making it essential for marketers to align their presence wi...
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Quest 3 Becomes Most-Used VR Headset on Steam
The Meta Quest 3 has surpassed the Quest 2 as the most-used VR headset on Steam, with a 26.68% share, indicating a significant generational shift in the VR market. This transition to the Quest 3, which emphasizes advanced mixed reality features, encourages developers to prioritize creating conten...
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Republicans Target Netflix Over 'Woke' Content, Ignore YouTube
A U.S. Senate antitrust hearing shifted focus to criticize Netflix's inclusion of LGBTQ+ themes in its content, with lawmakers labeling it a "woke" agenda, rather than examining a potential merger. Netflix's leadership defended its programming as entertainment, not political advocacy, while the h...
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Nex Playground CEO: How Our Console Fixes the Wii's Flaws
The Nex Playground console has found success by modernizing family-friendly motion gaming, with CEO David Lee crediting its strategy of addressing perceived long-term flaws in Nintendo's Wii business model. Lee identifies the Wii's reliance on a few hit titles and low software engagement from cas...
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Anthropic and Accenture Forge Major AI Partnership
Anthropic and Accenture have formed a strategic alliance, creating a dedicated business unit to deeply integrate Anthropic's Claude AI models into enterprise client solutions. The partnership includes training for Accenture's workforce and provides tools to help clients measure AI investment retu...
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Radeon RX 9070 16GB Hits Record Low Price - $95 Off MSRP
The PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 16GB is currently available at a record-low price of $519, offering significant savings and strong performance that competes with consoles and other GPUs at a lower cost. This graphics card provides smooth gaming at 1080p and 1440p, with viable 4K gaming using...
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iPhone 17 Could Dethrone Samsung as Top Seller This Year
Apple is projected to surpass Samsung as the world's top smartphone manufacturer this year, with an estimated 243 million shipments giving it a slight market share lead. The iPhone 17 series drove this shift with a 12% sales increase in its first four weeks, aided by lower-than-expected tariffs b...
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Don't Choose: SEO and AI Search Are a Winning Combo
The debate between traditional SEO and AI search tools presents a false choice, as both are being used together to expand user research habits rather than replace one another. Brands should adopt a dual strategy, tracking performance across both channels and creating content that comprehensively ...
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SEO vs. AI Search: Why You Need Both
AI tools and traditional search engines are complementary rather than competing, with consumers using both to expand their search capabilities and creating opportunities for brands to leverage multiple channels. Research shows that AI tool usage increases rather than replaces Google searches, exp...
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AMD Confirms Radeon RX 5000/6000 Support: Day-One Game Drivers Continue
AMD has confirmed that Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 series GPUs will continue to receive day-one driver support for new games, addressing concerns about discontinued optimization. RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 architectures will still get critical bug fixes and stability updates, though performance optimizations ...
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Craft Content That Ranks in Search & Generative AI
Modern digital strategies require optimizing content for both traditional search engines and generative AI platforms, as each system evaluates and surfaces information differently. User behavior is split, with search engines driving more traffic but AI chatbots growing rapidly, indicating a compl...
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ChatGPT vs. Google: Which Wins at Every User Journey Stage?
ChatGPT and Google serve complementary roles, with ChatGPT excelling in complex conversational tasks and Google dominating straightforward information retrieval. ChatGPT's adoption is surging with significant growth in user visits and longer, more detailed prompts, leading to higher-quality refer...
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Why Sony Can't Ignore Xbox's Shooter Fans
Despite lagging in hardware sales, Xbox retains a powerful allure for publishers due to its fiercely dedicated community, particularly within the shooter genre, which demonstrates high engagement. Microsoft's strategy is pivoting to merge its console identity with PC, as the Xbox Series X|S under...
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Microsoft's First Free Windows Update for 2026 Confirmed
Microsoft has released a critical 2026 security update for Windows 10, patching over 100 vulnerabilities, as the operating system's official support ends in October 2026. Despite the approaching end-of-life, Windows 10's market share remains high, creating a security challenge as many users have ...
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2025's Top 10 Must-Know SEO Updates
In 2025, AI became the core of search engines, forcing content creators to adopt new strategies for visibility and fundamentally changing the digital search landscape. Google's AI Overviews and similar features increased search impressions but significantly reduced click-through rates, creating a...
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VW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales Race
The European EV market grew robustly, with sales surging 29% to capture nearly 20% of the total car market, significantly outpacing the region's modest overall market growth. Volkswagen overtook Tesla as Europe's top EV seller, driven by a 56% increase in its own brand sales and strong contributi...
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400 Million Windows PCs Face Critical Security Threat
Microsoft is ending security updates for Windows 10, leaving 400 million PCs vulnerable to cyber threats due to hardware incompatibility with Windows 11. The scale of affected devices is unprecedented, with 41% of global PCs running Windows 10, far exceeding previous Windows phase-outs and creati...
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YouTube's AI Search Dominance: 200x More Citations
YouTube dominates AI-generated search results, receiving approximately 200 times more citations than its closest video platform competitor across major AI systems like ChatGPT and Google's products. In Google AI Overviews, YouTube holds the top domain position with 29.5% of citations, significant...
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Share of Search: Why It Outranks Traffic in the AI Era
The search marketing landscape is shifting, with **share of search** emerging as a critical metric that reflects brand health and predicts future market share by measuring consumer intent across platforms. Traditional metrics like website traffic are declining in relevance due to AI tools providi...
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Nothing Raises $200M from Tiger Global for AI Device Launch
Nothing secured $200 million in Series C funding, valuing the company at $1.3 billion and bringing total funding to over $450 million, with strong investor backing. The company has achieved over $1 billion in total sales, shipping 5.1 million devices, and is focusing on AI integration and expandi...
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Linux's 2026 Dominance: The One Open-Source Giant at Risk
The Linux desktop is seeing unprecedented growth as user dissatisfaction with Windows drives adoption, though fragmentation among distributions remains a challenge for newcomers. Major security and stability improvements are underway, including the adoption of the Rust programming language for me...
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AI Search in 2026: Benchmarking AEO & AI Overviews
The rise of AI Overviews and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is fundamentally changing online discovery, making adaptation essential for brand visibility and traffic. A new 2026 AEO Benchmarks Report provides the first comprehensive analysis of AI search performance across industries, offering d...
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The Hidden Cost of Media Mergers: Why Size Can't Replace Innovation
The article argues that media giants' historical focus on large-scale mergers has stifled innovation, leaving them vulnerable to disruptive competitors like Netflix. Past mergers, such as AOL Time Warner, often failed to deliver promised value, creating bloated companies that were slow to adapt t...
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Secure Your Upgrade: Windows 11 Migration Best Practices
Organizations face a critical transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11 due to Microsoft ending support in 2025, with market trends showing user hesitation and a surprising resurgence of older systems like Windows 7. Alternatives to Windows 11, such as Linux or Chromebooks, pose significant securi...
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7 Essential Steps for Small Businesses to Thrive with AI
Agentic commerce is transforming online retail by using AI assistants to handle purchasing, shifting consumer behavior from active shopping to delegated decision-making. Small businesses must adapt by optimizing their digital presence with structured, consistent, and comprehensive product data to...
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ChatGPT Drives 1% of All Website Traffic
AI platforms now generate just over 1% of all website traffic, with ChatGPT responsible for 87.4% of these referrals, indicating a shift in how users discover information online. Organic search remains the primary traffic driver overall, but brands risk losing visibility if they are not cited in ...
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Stellantis and Pony.ai Partner on European Robotaxi Fleet
Stellantis and Pony.ai have partnered to develop and deploy a fleet of autonomous robotaxis across Europe, starting with initial testing in Luxembourg using the Peugeot e-Traveller model. The collaboration integrates Pony.ai's self-driving software into Stellantis's electric van platform, designe...
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Google Search Ad Revenue Surges as Amazon Retreats in Q3
Google Search ad revenue surged in Q3 2025 as Amazon withdrew from Google Shopping auctions, creating opportunities for other retailers like Temu, Shein, and Walmart to expand their presence and improve click growth and ad costs. Performance Max campaigns gained momentum, accounting for 68% of sh...
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How AMD's Stock Will Fund OpenAI's Billion-Dollar Chip Deal
OpenAI will fund its multi-billion dollar AMD chip purchases using stock warrants, receiving up to 160 million shares as it helps AMD improve its Instinct GPU line and deploys significant computing capacity. The partnership could see AMD's stock value surge, potentially making OpenAI's stake wort...
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Groww, Backed by Satya Nadella, to Become First Indian Startup to Go Public After U.S.-India Move
Groww is preparing for a multi-billion dollar IPO, becoming the first Indian startup to list domestically after relocating its headquarters from the U.S. to capitalize on India's expanding capital markets. The IPO involves a secondary sale of shares by major investors and aims to raise ₹10.6 bill...
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Microsoft Urged to Extend Windows 10 Support by Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports is urging Microsoft to extend free security updates for Windows 10 beyond October 14, warning it will leave millions of users vulnerable and create electronic waste. They criticized Microsoft's paid Extended Security Update program as inadequate and hypocritical, arguing it explo...
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Saudi's Gathern Raises $72M, Eyes IPO at $266M Valuation
Gathern, Saudi Arabia's leading vacation rental platform, has raised $72 million in Series B funding, valuing the company at over $266 million and making it the Middle East's most valuable woman-led startup. The funding will support preparations for an IPO on the Tadawul stock exchange and drive ...
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Why This Indie Horse Game Keeps Getting Banned
The indie horror game "Horses" was banned from major storefronts like Steam, Epic Games Store, and Humble, citing opaque sexual content policy violations and placing its developer, Santa Ragione, in severe financial jeopardy. Storefronts provided little specific rationale for the bans, despite ...
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What Is ChatGPT Go? Your Quick Guide
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Go, a more affordable subscription tier priced around $4.50, to increase accessibility in markets where the standard $20 fee is prohibitive, though it is not available in the United States. The plan offers significant upgrades over the free version, including higher me...
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Google Chrome to Add Gemini AI Sidebar
Google is integrating its Gemini AI into Chrome via a sidebar, enabling AI-assisted web tasks like shopping and research, initially for premium subscribers in the U.S. The feature allows multitasking, such as summarizing web content or automating multi-step actions like price comparisons, while r...
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Premium vs. Budget TVs: The Gap Is Closing Fast
The performance gap between premium brands (Sony, Samsung, LG) and value brands (Hisense, TCL) is rapidly narrowing, as the latter now lead with innovations like RGB LED TVs and advanced quantum dots. While established leaders still hold advantages in areas like video processing and OLED contrast...
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OpenAI Unveils New Image Generator Amid Intense AI Race
OpenAI has launched GPT-Image-1.5, a significantly faster and more precise image generation model for ChatGPT, released in response to competitive pressure from Google's AI offerings. The new model provides granular user control for detailed editing and iterative changes, allowing adjustments to ...
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Ford, Renault Partner to Build Affordable EVs in Europe
Ford and Renault have formed a strategic partnership to develop affordable electric vehicles for Europe, aiming to counter budget-friendly Chinese models and revitalize Ford's regional operations. Ford will use Renault's Ampere EV platform to build two new compact electric models by 2028, while r...
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Optmyzr's 3-Year BFCM Study: Key Seasonality Adjustment Insights
A three-year study found that manual seasonality adjustments for Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns often reduce efficiency, as automated Smart Bidding systems already account for seasonal fluctuations without intervention. Using seasonality adjustments led to significantly higher cost-per-c...
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AWS Outage: Keeper Security CEO Darren Guccione Explains the Impact
The recent AWS outage highlighted that operational resilience requires preparing for both cyber threats and technical infrastructure failures, not just security breaches. The disruption impacted a wide range of services, including Slack, Zoom, and gaming platforms, due to their reliance on AWS, w...
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Tesla and BYD Lose Ground with Chinese EV Buyers
Tesla's sales in China have declined for two consecutive months, with an 8.4% drop in July and a 4% year-on-year decrease in August, indicating growing challenges in a key market. BYD, Tesla's main rival in China, also saw a sharp 30% fall in quarterly profits due to government intervention endin...
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Protect Your Windows 10 From Hackers With This One Step
Windows 10's official security support ended in October 2025, leaving systems without critical patches and creating a significant, growing vulnerability risk. Users can temporarily mitigate this risk by enrolling in a paid Extended Security Updates program or by relying on Microsoft Defender upda...
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1 Billion Windows 11 Users Are Furious
Windows 11 has reached over a billion users, but consumer satisfaction has sharply declined due to persistent bugs, aggressive AI integration, and a poor home user experience. Key user frustrations include unreliable Windows Updates, intrusive and half-baked AI features that are difficult to disa...
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Exynos 2600 Rivals Apple M5 in Shocking Benchmark Results
The Exynos 2600 chipset's leaked benchmark scores suggest it could rival Apple's M5 processor, potentially marking a major comeback for Samsung's semiconductor division. Rumored to be built on a 2nm process with GAA technology, the chip promises significant gains in power and efficiency and may b...
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