Quote from: Razgovory on Today at 01:57:40 PMQuote from: Valmy on Today at 12:57:56 PMThey aren't our allies. They voted for Trump last time. Friendship over.Lot of people disagree. Especially in Europe. I can't get help but think that J.K. Rowling would get a pass if she wore a hijab.
QuoteGoogle's control over the digital ad ecosystem
Ad exchange: Approximately 50% of the market share.
Publisher ad server: Approximately 90% of the market share.
Buy-side market: Approximately 40-80% of the market share.
Quote from: Josquius on Today at 02:20:10 PMHello Sophia everything OK?
Edit - my boys first message.
I don't know a Sophia.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on Today at 11:18:59 AMI don't know what you mean. I never mentioned the word focus.Quote from: Josquius on Today at 03:59:01 AMCome on. That's playing too dumb. You don't know what I mean by behind the scenes when I specifically mention it in a paragraph about advertising?
They absolutely do have a monopoly in parts of advertising on a par with their search dominance. Something like 90% of ads flow through their server.
I can infer that behind the scenes means all the activities Google engages in apart from the directly consumer facing aspects. I don't understand focus. Who is supposed to focus? What will their focus result in? I don't understand the relationship between focus and breaking up the company. Will more attention be paid to their back room shenanigans once they are broken up? Will breaking them up make it harder to hide their back room shenanigans?
QuoteGoogle has a monopoly on advertising on their site to the exact same extent the owner of a single billboard does.
QuoteBy the end of September, Chinese mills had produced 746 million tons of crude steel, down 2.9% from a year earlier. But domestic consumption slumped 5.7% to just under 649 million tons, a much steeper decline. The imbalance sent a clear message: in the world's largest steel-producing nation, the core problem isn't output. It's overcapacity, with too few buyers at home to absorb what's being produced.
That demand shortfall is reverberating through the economy. Steel prices have slid to multi-year lows — with the China Steel Price Index briefly dipping below 90 in June, the lowest since 2017. Industry executives, analysts, and government officials now say a structural shift is underway: from decades of expansion to a difficult period of contraction and consolidation.
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To fill the widening gap, Chinese steelmakers are aggressively pivoting to export markets. In 2024, outbound shipments surged to 110 million tons, up 22.7% from the year before. The momentum continued into 2025, with 87.96 million tons exported in the first nine months, a 9.2% year-on-year increase. Analysts expect the full-year figure could reach 130 million tons, nearing an all-time high.
But volume has come at the cost of value. The average price of Chinese steel exports dropped 19.3% in 2024 to $755.40 per ton. This year, prices fell another 9.5%. Many steelmakers are caught in a high-stakes race to preserve market share overseas — even if it means selling at razor-thin margins or below cost. "Domestic demand is weak, foreign markets are better," one coastal mill executive told Caixin. "So we're all focused on expanding abroad."
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With trade tensions simmering and environmental targets looming, experts say China's steel exports are approaching a ceiling — already accounting for around 30% of global trade. Over the next five years, direct exports may fall by half, according to Jiangsu Steel Association President Chen Hongbing. That would push China's apparent steel consumption down from more than 1 billion tons today to around 750 million — a contraction that would reshape not just an industry, but a cornerstone of China's post-reform economy
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