The Foreign Policy hangs for a day with Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s commissioner for competition, who has investigated Google for abusing its dominance as a search engine and Gazprom for inflating prices. She took her post in November 2014, and has pursued state-aid cases against some of the world’s biggest companies and their European hosts, including Starbucks in the Netherlands and Apple in Ireland, according to the report, which delves into her life to find out what makes her tick. 

T-Mobile introduced a program called Binge On in November that allows video services and users to reduce T-Mobile’s data charges by limiting streaming to a lower resolution that many users find acceptable for watching most videos on their phone screen. T-Mobile was slowing the speed of video streams, including services that did not participate in the Binge On program. Since then T-Mobile has backed down. Christian Kleinerman explains.

Finnish company Valossa is developing a search engine to find movies. Describe a movie theme and the technology analyses video streams in real time to identify more than one thousand concepts. Valossa, based at the University of Oulu in Finland, received $650,000 from investors to create whatismymovie.com, according to The Independent, which reports it does for movies what Shazam does for music.

Danny Hall runs through several misconceptions about search algorithms, specially about Google. Here are five of the most common misconceptions and myths surrounding Search engine optimization. They range from meta descriptions and keyword tags, to pages requiring 500 words "or the whole site will tank."

Instagram will soon have the ability to show posts out of order based on what people care about most, removing the need to search for the most relevant content. Technology will order of photos and videos in individual feeds based on personal interested in the content, relationship with the person posting, and the timeliness of the post. 

Apple is reportedly moving a large share of its iCloud business to Google’s cloud, CNR reports. “Alphabet's Google has quietly scored a major coup in its campaign to become an enterprise cloud computing powerhouse, landing Apple as a customer for the Google Cloud Platform,” the trade publication writes, citing sources. “Since inking the Google deal late last year, Apple has also significantly reduced its reliance on Amazon Web Services.”

Within a new section to its transparency report, Google is now keeping track of how many requests use HTTPS encryption, The Verge reports. “Our aim with this project is to hold ourselves accountable and encourage others to encrypt so we can make the web even safer for everyone," Google said in a statement.

Google is adding new options to its service for business users who want to use the search giant as an identity provider for accessing other online services. “Among the 14 new pre-configured options are the likes of Microsoft Office 365, Facebook at Work, New Relic, Concur, Box, Tableau, HipChat and Slack,” TechCrunch notes.

The Google flight feature Destinations On Google allows users to look up destinations, flight and hotel prices from its search engine on a mobile phone. The tool also provides information on bad weather and crowded areas based on historic visits from other travelers.

ChannelAdvisor says an extra day can add approximately 3.5% to 4% extra sales volume to the month. Paid search benefited by 4%, comparison shopping engines by 4.9%, and Google Shopping benefited by a leap of 2.6%, while other third-party marketplaces saw an uptick of 5.2%. The numbers also highlight percentage increases for eBay and Amazon.