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Apple might be building a Google competitor.

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And an ad measurement company raises $350 million. This is your daily crunch. The big story is

Apple has a growing interest in search technology and might even be working on a

product to compete with Google according to the Financial Times.

The most visible change is the fact that in iOS14 Apple is now showing its own results

when you type queries in the home screen. In addition, there seems to be an

increase in activity from Apple's web crawler. There may be more of an opportunity here as

the US Justice Department has sued Google over what it claims are anti-competitive

behaviors around search. However, this doesn't necessarily mean Apple and Google will soon

be going head-to-head in search. It could just be a sign that Apple's Siri voice assistant is getting

more search queries. In Tech Giants, Spotify is facing criticism after Joe Rogin brought Alex

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