Latest news with #Similarweb
Express Tribune
10 hours ago
- Business
- Express Tribune
EU seeks 'digital sovereignty'
The State Bank is working on a project to prevent digital frauds through deploying artificial intelligence. photo: file Listen to article At a market stall in Berlin run by charity Topio, volunteers help people who want to purge their phones of the influence of US tech firms. Since Donald Trump's inauguration, the queue for their services has grown. Interest in European-based digital services has jumped in recent months, data from digital market intelligence company Similarweb shows. More people are looking for e-mail, messaging and even search providers outside the United States. The first months of Trump's second presidency have shaken some Europeans' confidence in their long-time ally, after he signalled his country would step back from its role in Europe's security and then launched a trade war. "It's about the concentration of power in US firms," said Topio's founder Michael Wirths, as his colleague installed on a customer's phone a version of the Android operating system without hooks into the Google ecosystem.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Insider-Owned Growth Companies To Watch In June 2025
The United States market remained flat over the last week but has seen a 9.9% increase over the past year with earnings forecasted to grow by 14% annually. In this environment, growth companies with high insider ownership can be particularly appealing as they often indicate strong confidence from those who know the company best, potentially aligning well with anticipated earnings growth. Name Insider Ownership Earnings Growth Super Micro Computer (SMCI) 16.2% 39.1% Similarweb (SMWB) 14.9% 69.7% Prairie Operating (PROP) 34.5% 75.7% FTC Solar (FTCI) 27.7% 62.5% Enovix (ENVX) 12.1% 58.4% Duolingo (DUOL) 14.2% 40% Credo Technology Group Holding (CRDO) 12.1% 45% Atour Lifestyle Holdings (ATAT) 22.6% 24.1% Astera Labs (ALAB) 14.8% 44.4% Antalpha Platform Holding (ANTA) 18.4% 40.2% Click here to see the full list of 191 stocks from our Fast Growing US Companies With High Insider Ownership screener. Here we highlight a subset of our preferred stocks from the screener. Simply Wall St Growth Rating: ★★★★☆☆ Overview: Clearfield, Inc. manufactures and sells various fiber connectivity products in the United States and internationally, with a market cap of $525.71 million. Operations: The company's revenue segments include $140.25 million from Clearfield and $40.16 million from Nestor Cables. Insider Ownership: 17.2% Earnings Growth Forecast: 167.3% p.a. Clearfield is trading at 49.4% below its estimated fair value, with analysts expecting a 21% price rise. It forecasts above-market profit growth over the next three years and revenue growth of 10.7%, outpacing the US market's 8.7%. Recent product launches, like the TetherSmart Multi-Fiber Terminal, highlight innovation in fiber network solutions. The company reported improved earnings for Q2 2025 and is actively managing its financial position through share buybacks and extended credit facilities. Take a closer look at Clearfield's potential here in our earnings growth report. The analysis detailed in our Clearfield valuation report hints at an deflated share price compared to its estimated value. Simply Wall St Growth Rating: ★★★★☆☆ Overview: Canadian Solar Inc. is a company that offers solar energy and battery storage products and solutions globally, with a market cap of approximately $739.26 million. Operations: Canadian Solar Inc. generates revenue through the provision of solar energy and battery storage products and solutions across various regions including Asia, the Americas, Europe, and other international markets. Insider Ownership: 21.2% Earnings Growth Forecast: 91.3% p.a. Canadian Solar is trading at 74.3% below its estimated fair value, with revenue growth forecasted at 11.6% annually, surpassing the US market's 8.7%. While profitability is expected in three years, recent Q1 results showed a net loss of US$33.97 million. The launch of advanced products like SolBank 3.0 Plus and TOPBiHiKu CS6.2 modules underscores innovation in energy solutions, despite challenges such as high volatility and debt coverage issues by operating cash flow. Delve into the full analysis future growth report here for a deeper understanding of Canadian Solar. Our comprehensive valuation report raises the possibility that Canadian Solar is priced lower than what may be justified by its financials. Simply Wall St Growth Rating: ★★★★☆☆ Overview: Sportradar Group AG, along with its subsidiaries, delivers sports data services to the sports betting and media industries across various regions including Switzerland, the United States, and several other global markets, with a market cap of approximately $7.27 billion. Operations: The company generates revenue primarily from its Data Processing segment, which amounts to €1.15 billion. Insider Ownership: 30.6% Earnings Growth Forecast: 32.4% p.a. Sportradar Group is trading at 32.6% below its estimated fair value, with earnings growth forecasted at 32.4% annually, outpacing the US market's 14.4%. Recent Q1 results showed a net income of €24.21 million compared to a previous loss, reflecting strong performance. The partnership with DAZN for FIFA Club World Cup data rights enhances its extensive sports coverage and betting markets offerings while maintaining robust insider ownership without significant recent insider trading activity. Click here to discover the nuances of Sportradar Group with our detailed analytical future growth report. Upon reviewing our latest valuation report, Sportradar Group's share price might be too optimistic. Click here to access our complete index of 191 Fast Growing US Companies With High Insider Ownership. Searching for a Fresh Perspective? Uncover the next big thing with financially sound penny stocks that balance risk and reward. This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks analysis only considers stock directly held by insiders. It does not include indirectly owned stock through other vehicles such as corporate and/or trust entities. All forecast revenue and earnings growth rates quoted are in terms of annualised (per annum) growth rates over 1-3 years. Companies discussed in this article include CLFD CSIQ and SRAD. Have feedback on this article? Concerned about the content? with us directly. Alternatively, email editorial-team@
Mint
14-06-2025
- Business
- Mint
Google Search is fading. The whole internet could go with it.
Experience a random pain in the 21st century and an internet search usually comes before a call to the doctor. Googling 'chest pain," 'high fever," or 'skin rash" calls up a series of blue links followed by a frenzied trip across the web. A similar pattern plays out, minus some anxiety, for 'today's weather," 'restaurants near me," and 'high-yielding dividend stocks." Roughly one in five visits to the world's top internet sites begin on search engines, according to data from analytics firm Semrush. At Wikipedia, search generates 63% of global visits. For travel site Tripadvisor, it's 58%; for local review site Yelp, it's 51%. But internet search traffic has been falling for much of the past year as web surfers experiment with artificial-intelligence-powered search from OpenAI's ChatGPT and AI start-up Perplexity AI. So far, referrals from AI search engines have replaced about 10% of the traditional search losses, according to Similarweb data. Google is pushing back by adding AI-powered summaries to the top of its search results, de-emphasizing its traditional blue links and thereby further reducing search traffic. May could prove to be a tipping point. Last month, search referrals to top U.S. travel and tourism sites tumbled 20% year over year, according to the latest data from Similarweb. E-commerce companies saw their referrals fall 9%. For news and media sites, search traffic dropped 17%. The finance, lifestyle, and food-and-drink categories all saw similar types of declines on the month. Across the web economy, the trend is clear: Search is drying up, and Google is no longer the clear-cut way to drive audiences to websites. The changes have begun to force a reckoning across various industries. Late last month, Business Insider, a leading digital news publication, cut 21% of its staff, citing traffic drops that were 'outside of its control." 'Business models are under pressure, distribution is unstable, and competition for attention is fiercer than ever," Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng wrote to employees. Reddit, the social-media site and source of answers to many random questions, which gets 57% of its visits from search, is making deals with AI firms and rolling out its own AI-driven search engine. Chegg, a homework-help company, worth $15.1 billion at its peak in 2021, said earlier this year that traffic declines had given it no choice but to explore strategic alternatives, including a possible sale. On Wall Street, no company has faced greater worries about the future of search than Google itself. Shares of parent Alphabet are down 7% on the year; the company now gets counted as a value stock in some investor benchmarks. But Google has countermeasures. For one, it has diversified itself into a cloud-computing giant, and it's a winner in the nascent category of autonomous driving. Google itself is also no slouch in the generative-AI world, with massive resources to build and improve its Gemini large-language models. Instead, as traditional search fades in importance, it's the rest of the internet that will suffer. In May, monthly U.S. search traffic to fell for the first time in at least two years, according to Similarweb, down 14%. A year ago, search referrals to Schwab were up 179%. TripAdvisor's search tumbled 34% on the month, while Starbucks saw a 41% decline to its website. Search to Netflix, a pioneer in digital strategies, was down 23%. The traffic conversation has the feel of the 1990s and early aughts before Google arrived and companies were still trying to figure out how to attract audiences across the World Wide Web. Executives are talking up deals with OpenAI's ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI-driven search tools. 'We're partnering with AI search companies to ensure our brands show up well across customer queries," said Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin in May, 'and building new experiences to connect with travelers outside our ecosystem." There's a long way to go. Based on Similarweb's U.S. estimates, Expedia got 88,000 referrals from AI search engines in May. It got 34 million referrals from search. ChatGPT was something of a novelty when the model made its public debut in November 2022, generating a wave of songs, poems, and essays across the web. But the latest models, which are more sophisticated and promise humanlike reasoning, have spurred a surge of new use. ChatGPT had 500 million weekly active users in March, rising from 300 million in December. Many of them pay $20 a month for service; parent company OpenAI says it reached an annualized revenue run rate of $10 billion this month, up from $5.5 billion at year end. Another start-up, Perplexity, has taken on Google more directly. 'A direct line to the world's knowledge—compressed, cited, and made clear," Perplexity says on its about page. 'No gimmicks. No fluff. Just answers that make sense." (Barron's owner Dow Jones has sued Perplexity for copyright infringement.) As AI pressure mounts on Google, the company has moved to defend its 89% U.S. market share in search. A year ago, it launched so-called AI Overviews atop Google search results, promising condensed AI-generated answers to search queries. Those overviews, which initially appeared on a small number of searches, have been appearing more frequently. An analysis by research firm Ahrefs said that the prevalence of AI Overviews have more than doubled from March 12 to May 6. The AI summaries have spurred debate across the internet, with publishers worried about a search query that delivers answers in a few paragraphs, with no need to click for more info. According to Similarweb data from March, searches with AI Overviews resulted in a click 23% of the time. For searches without the overviews, the click rate was 36%. 'Looking at search results that do show an AI answer, comparing that with search results that do not show an answer, we found a crazy drop-off," said Kevin Indig, a search-engine optimization, or SEO, consultant and author of the Growth Memo blog. 'This is a click killer." Google told Barron's that third-party data offer an incomplete picture of search trends. In February, online education platform Chegg said search trends had crushed its business. CEO Nathan Schultz told investors: 'We would not need to review strategic alternatives if Google hadn't launched AI Overviews, retaining traffic that historically had come to Chegg, materially impacting our acquisitions, revenue, and employees." Asked for comment, the company directed Barron's to a lawsuit it filed in February against Google. It alleges that Google is using its search dominance to 'coerce online publishers like Chegg to supply content that Google republishes without permission in AI-generated answers that unfairly compete for the attention of users on the internet." Chegg shares have tumbled 99% since 2021. Google says its AI Overviews have improved the search experience and are being embraced by users. A Google spokesperson says that AI Overviews show more links to a wider range of sources on results pages. 'More than any other company, Google prioritizes sending traffic to the web, and we continue to send billions of clicks to websites every day," the Google spokesperson told Barron's. In April, during Google's earnings call, an analyst asked company executives about the impact that AI Overviews was having on click-through rates. 'I don't think this is the moment to go into the details of click-through rates and conversion and so on," said Philipp Schindler, Google's chief business officer. 'But overall, we're happy with what we're seeing." Reddit has become a battle ground and flashpoint in the argument about search's future. The stock is down 28% so far this year as investors worry about slowing user growth on the social-media site. It's a trend the company has attributed to an evolution in search. The company remains a standout in search, and it points out that 'Reddit" is the No. 6 searched term on Google. Still, traffic trends have notably shifted in recent months. In May 2024, Reddit's search referrals soared 78%, according to Similarweb. This past May, searches to the site were up 14%. Reddit's daily user growth, meanwhile, has gone from 37% in the first quarter of 2024 to 31% in 2025. Reddit Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Wong said in an interview with Barron's that search is under 'heavy construction." Wong is confident about the long-term opportunity for Reddit, noting that its human-generated content will be especially sought after to train the large language models that run AI. Reddit has a deal with OpenAI. For now, that kind of licensing is a small part of the business, accounting for less than 9% of revenue in the most recent quarter. 'Nobody knows how Google is going to cross this canyon and the kind of ripple effects that they'll have across the internet," Wong says. 'What I do know is that I think human intelligence is still going to be worth a lot, and it's going to go up and up in value, and I think Reddit is the place for that." Wall Street generally agrees. Across 29 analysts covering Reddit, the average price target is $152, 31% above its recent close. Going forward, investors should pay attention to a company's search exposure. Across the categories, certain brands are far less dependent on Google's referrals. Airbnb, for instance, got 14% of referrals from search in March, versus the 58% for travel firm Tripadvisor, according to Semrush. DoorDash and Uber Technologies were 13%. Social-media apps like Pinterest and Meta Platform's Instagram also tend to be far less search-dependent than much of the internet. Their sites drew 23% and 17% of referrals from search, respectively. In May, Pinterest's CEO told investors that 85% of users come directly to the company's mobile app. Meta Platforms, which essentially shares the online advertising pie with Google, is in an enviable position. As search traffic falls and traditional search advertising wanes, businesses will be compelled to advertise on Instagram and Facebook, Meta's social networks that are insulated from search disruption. Meanwhile, Meta can use AI to improve ad effectiveness and personalization. As Google defends itself against AI, Meta is free to fully embrace it. Ultimately, the best hedge against AI disruption is the company empowering it all: Nvidia. As AI explodes, Nvidia will sell more AI chips and the infrastructure to power data centers. Newer reasoning-focused AI models are particularly profitable for Nvidia because they require 100 times the computing resources compared with prior AI chatbots, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told investors on Nvidia's recent earnings call. 'Reasoning models are driving a step-function surge in inference demand," he said. As Google Search comes under threat for the first time in two decades, a U.S. district judge is determining the company's fate. Judge Amit Mehta ruled in August 2024 that Google was a monopoly in general search services and general text advertising. Alphabet and its investors are now waiting for the judge to determine potential remedies. A penalty phase of the trial concluded last month, and Mehta is expected to issue a final decision in August. The timing is notable. Alphabet was ruled a monopoly around the same time that it was pushing out AI Overviews. Less than a year later, search is facing a massive competitive shift as users increasingly embrace chatbots. Apple's senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, testified that searches in Apple browsers fell for the first time in April as people increasingly turned to AI for search queries. Google pays billions of dollars to Apple annually to make its search engine the default option on Apple browsers. But don't expect Google's recent weakness to affect Mehta's decision. Antony Haynes, partner at Dorf Nelson & Zauderer, told Barron's that even though these new competitive threats have become more prevalent since the judge made his ruling, it's unlikely those threats will affect his decisions regarding remedies. 'We're not thinking about a remedy for potential future technology changes. We're looking at what they did in the past," Haynes said. That past includes one of the best business models ever created. Last year, Alphabet's operating margin was 32% versus an aggregate 14% for S&P 500 index companies. Meanwhile, since Alphabet went public in 2004, the stock has returned an annualized 23.7%, versus 10.6% for the S&P 500. A post-search world will probably weigh on those margins, but Alphabet stock already reflects the next phase. It trades at 17.8 times expected earnings for the next 12 months, below the S&P 500's 22.5 multiple. Barron's has remained bullish on the stock, including in a November 2024 cover story and a follow-up last month. Google will be fine. It's the rest of the internet that should be worried. Write to Adam Levine at Tae Kim at and Angela Palumbo at
Business Standard
09-06-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
LawBhoomi Ranked Among Top 10 Most Visited Legal Websites in India
PNN New Delhi [India], June 9: LawBhoomi, a leading online platform for law students and professionals, has proudly secured a spot among the top 10 most visited legal websites in India, as per Similarweb's April 2025 rankings. In a remarkable achievement, LawBhoomi now ranks above several official government law portals, reflecting its wide reach, strong reputation, and student-first approach. With over 1.6 million visits recorded in a single month, LawBhoomi continues to establish itself as a trusted name in the Indian legal education space. From the mountains of Kashmir to the coasts of Kerala, and from Gujarat to the hills of the Northeast, students across India, from every region, rely on LawBhoomi every single day. Founded by NLU graduates, LawBhoomi is changing the way students and legal professionals access knowledge and opportunities. Key offerings of LawBhoomi include: * Verified legal internships, jobs, and opportunities * Legal notes and judgment summaries * Career advice, interviews, and success stories * A wide variety of affordable and practical online law courses that thousands of students have already benefited from Aishwarya Agrawal, Co-founder of LawBhoomi, shared her thoughts on the milestone: "Our mission has always been to make legal education more accessible, practical, and student-focused. Reaching the top 10 is not just a number. It reflects the trust of lakhs of students who use LawBhoomi to learn, grow, and shape their careers. We're deeply thankful and committed to growing with them." Recognising the growing number of law entrance aspirants, LawBhoomi has also launched CLATBuddy, a dedicated platform for CLAT and law entrance preparation. With curated notes, exam strategies, current affairs updates, and mock test resources, CLATBuddy supports school students and droppers preparing for one of India's most competitive entrance exams. Every day, the platform touches the lives of thousands of students across the country. Whether they're preparing for getting into corporates or litigation or exploring their next career move, LawBhoomi helps them at every step. What makes LawBhoomi stand out is not just the variety of content it offers but the trust it has built over the years. Students rely on it for genuine information, useful courses, and career-changing opportunities. Its impact is not just limited to India. LawBhoomi is gradually expanding its global footprint, with users from countries like the USA, UK, etc. regularly accessing its resources, reflecting the growing demand for quality Indian legal education worldwide. With a growing user base, LawBhoomi has become a digital companion for young legal minds. For more information about LawBhoomi, visit In response to this growing demand, LawBhoomi has launched two new verticals to support global legal education: * Consult Legally ( which simplifies U.S. laws and makes them accessible for everyday readers * eLawDaily ( which provides easy-to-understand answers to UK legal questions through timely articles and explainers With these additions, LawBhoomi is becoming a comprehensive hub not only for Indian law students but also for learners exploring international legal pathways. The LawBhoomi team remains committed to its mission: to make legal education and career growth easier, more accessible, and truly meaningful. Media Contact:
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Use of Community Notes on Elon Musk's X has plummeted in 2025, data shows
Participation is plummeting in the community-driven feature that X owner Elon Musk touted as the solution to the social media site's misinformation problems. Submissions to X's Community Notes, which add user-generated context and corrections to the platform's posts, have cratered this year, according to an NBC News analysis of X data. Fewer submissions has led to fewer notes getting displayed. And the number of notes isn't the only issue: In May, technical glitches led to the disappearance of notes from the main X site, which X acknowledged in a post. Musk, who once routinely touted the feature, now rarely mentions it. The system saw a peak of nearly 120,000 user-created notes in January. But the monthly counts have been cut in half since then, with fewer than 60,000 in May. Only a small percentage of notes created are displayed on the site, and displayed notes have declined by similar proportions, according to the analysis. Worldwide, traffic to X has ticked down since January from about 4.7 billion visits to 4.4 billion in May, according to estimates provided to NBC News from the analytics company Similarweb, though the rate of decline in Community Notes submissions is sharper than the rate of traffic decline. The drop in Community Notes submissions began in February, the same month Musk said without evidence that the system was being gamed by foreign governments and needed to be fixed. For a Community Note to be posted, an approved contributor must submit it for review. Then, other Community Notes contributors vote on contributions to certain posts, and an algorithm determines which contributions are ranked most 'helpful' by a diverse group of voters. A spokesperson for X attributed the decline to 'natural swings in note volume based on world events.' '[Last year] was a big year in that regard,' the spokesperson said in an email, citing high volumes around elections worldwide. In 2025, misinformation about a variety of non-election-related topics has gone viral on the site, from videos about the U.S. Agency for International Development to lies about the Los Angeles wildfires. X is also adjusting its algorithm to reduce the need for notes, the spokesperson said: 'If people are seeing fewer posts that might benefit from notes, they'll naturally feel less of a need to write or request a note.' The notes' decline has real stakes for X. Experts say the dwindling submission numbers to Community Notes could run the social media site afoul of European regulators, who were already investigating the company over its ability to meet European Union regulations. The European Union's Digital Services Act requires certain sites such as X to reduce, via content moderation tools, the amount of misinformation published. 'In Europe, keeping Community Notes functional isn't a nice-to-have,' Matt Navarra, a social media consultant in the U.K., told NBC News. 'It's a compliance issue.' The product that would become Community Notes debuted with the name Birdwatch in 2021. That was before Musk's October 2022 purchase of the company, when it was still called Twitter. According to current documentation, 'Community Notes aims to create a better-informed world, by empowering people on X to collaboratively add helpful notes to posts that might be misleading.' After Musk rebranded the product, he quickly scaled access to it for users, beginning in December 2022, as he pulled back on content moderation and shifted the platform's policies. The company cut employees who worked on election integrity and countering misinformation, loosened rules around hate speech, and reinstated the accounts of extremists who had been banned. X also churned through trust and safety leads. By 2024, Community Notes had taken off. X data shows note submissions had been climbing steadily. X CEO Linda Yaccarino told a marketing convention audience in April that the company had expanded Community Notes from 70 countries in May 2024 to 200 in 2025. The system has also been adopted by other platforms. Meta announced in March that it was using some of X's technology for its own Community Notes system, and TikTok announced a similar feature called Footnotes in April. When a Community Notes note is displayed alongside a post, the spread of that particular piece of misinformation is kneecapped, Keith Coleman, a vice president at X who works with the Community Notes team, said on a podcast: 'The thing will be going viral, note appears, resharing drops 50-60% and that's it. The virality quickly goes to zero.' Many X users now regularly turn to the platform's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, for fact-checking and context, though that has not been without its own issues. Still, the decline could be particularly problematic for a system that relies on volunteers who have faith that their time and effort are contributing to something valuable. 'When users stop seeing notes, they stop believing the system works, and that's when the trust dies,' Navarra said. 'So, yeah, absolutely, volume matters. The more notes being written and shown, the more coverage you get for viral posts, misleading content and general misinformation.' This article was originally published on
