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Bing ‘intelligent search’ capabilities continue to expand, include facts from multiple sources

Bing has announced several upgrades to its AI-powered intelligent search capabilities. Bing first launched intelligent search in December, bringing artificial intelligence to deliver richer search answers, and enhance image and conversational search. Now, Bing is launching more...
Posted On 31 Jul 2018
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Yelp Earnings Out, CFO Steps Down

Yelp just released its financials for Q4 and full year 2015 with revenue of 153.7 million (up 40% year-over-year) for the quarter. Cumulative reviews grew 34% to approximately 95 million. Local advertising accounts grew 32% to approximately 111,000. CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said,...
Posted On 30 Jul 2018
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Alphabet (Google) Earnings Not As Good As Expected

Google parent Alphabet just announced its financial results for the first quarter with revenue up 17% year-over-year at $20.35 billion. Non-GAAP earnings per share were lower than expected at $7.50 (versus $7.96), and the stock is on the way down as a result. It quickly fell by...
Posted On 26 Jul 2018
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Instagram Now has 1 Billion Monthly Users, Launches IGTV for Content Creators

Instagram has just hit one of its most crucial milestone – one billion users. The news came on the heels of the company’s launch of IGTV or Instagram Television, a long-form video format that takes aim at rival YouTube. It seemed inevitable that Instagram would hit the 1...
Posted On 18 Jul 2018
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Twitter Gets Rid of 70 Million Fake Accounts in May and June, Cracks Down on Trolls

Twitter has been aggressively suspending false accounts in a bid to curtail the spread of fake news. The company’s massive crackdown on trolls and bots have resulted in one million dubious accounts being deleted or suspended per day. According to the Washington Post, Twitter has...
Posted On 18 Jul 2018
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4 CRM Trends to Watch Out for in 2018

There’s no denying that Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software has changed a lot since the 1990s. These days, CRM software is the go-to tool for managing business relationships and closely studying customer data and interactions. CRM systems are continuously...
Posted On 18 Jul 2018
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7 Tips That Will Keep Your Small Business From Taking Over Your Personal Life

For many entrepreneurs, running a small business is exhilarating and liberating. You not only have control over daily operations, but you can decide who you want to work with, and you can even choose to turn your passion into your business. Small business ownership also gives...
Posted On 18 Jul 2018
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SEOs Tell Newspapers To Stay Out of SEO Business

Remember how the starving newspapers began to try to revitalize their dying businesses by offering SEO services? Well, we ran a poll asking our readers if newspapers should sell SEO services. The results are not that surprising. Most SEOs don’t want the newspapers to get...
Posted On 18 Jul 2018
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SEMPO September Newsletter – Many Not Happy with Communication

I promised you more was to come after I wrote the entry here named Danny Sullivan & Chris Sherman Resign from SEMPO, and it came in the way of more posts over at HighRankings. In a thread started by Jill from HighRankings named Discuss Sempo’s Sept. Newsletter, where...
Posted On 18 Jul 2018
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Google Says They Will Keep FTC Commitments After Required Deadline

So Google announced the other day, as I covered at Search Engine Land, that they are keeping their “current practices regarding the AdWords API Terms and Conditions and the domain-by-domain opt-out following the expiration of the voluntary commitments.” That means,...
Posted On 18 Jul 2018
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