"It's still early morning on the web, we are the lucky ones – the majority of people still don't have internet access," observed Matt Brittin, president of EMEA business and operations at Google. He was speaking at IAB Interact, a conference held by IAB Europe in Amsterdam in May 2017.
"We're in more turbulent times," he continued. "Here we are in a world where we face terrorism, a structural refugee problem and political uncertainty."
This is the world Google, as a global company which seeks to grow its business as internet access grows, has to deal with. "At the...