Google News Showcase, a new product from one of the world’s largest companies, launched in Aotearoa last week. The first are organisations too small to be able to get in a room with Google and negotiate a deal. The kind that, absent Australia-scale deals with the tech companies, will continue to shrink and disappear. The government has said it would like deals with the tech companies to replace it. “Bang,” said Jackson, “the deals came very quickly.”This contrasts quite starkly with what the tech companies have told us privately.

Source: Stuff August 29, 2022 23:00 UTC