Adobe CEO Focused On Delivering Innovation

“We’re in rarefied atmosphere,” says Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. “We’re focused on delivering an incredible innovation roadmap across all three of our clouds. We look forward to sharing more about our forward-looking strategy at the analyst meeting at MAX. We do look forward to...
Posted On 18 Sep 2019
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Compass Launches Consumer Site With AI-Driven Recommendations, Says CEO

“We just launched a new consumer site that lets our agents collaborate with their clients,” says Compass founder and CEO Robert Reffkin. “It has features such as AI-driven recommendations exactly for the buyer. Based on everything that they’re searching it makes recommendations....
Posted On 17 Sep 2019
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YouTube settlement with FTC includes $170M fine, changes to how it monetizes children’s content

The company said it will stop serving up personalized ads on kid videos. YouTube has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and New York attorney general for allegedly violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), according to CNBC. The agreement...
Posted On 17 Sep 2019
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Meta robots nofollow gets the hint treatment too

Robots won’t support the new UGC and sponsored link attributes, says Google’s Gary Illyes. The robots meta tag will also be treated as a hint, in accordance with Google’s new treatment of the nofollow link attribute, Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes tweeted on September 11....
Posted On 16 Sep 2019
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BrightLocal launches ‘Local RankFlux’ Google local algorithm tracking tool

The tool is designed to help SEOs and businesses more easily track local algo changes. BrightLocal has launched a new free tool called “Local RankFlux,” designed to alert marketers to changes in local search rankings across multiple industries. Exclusively focused on the Google...
Posted On 13 Sep 2019
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Uber CEO Reveals Formula To Profitability

“Scale is the primary driver toward profitability,” says Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. “It’s getting big. We’ve got over a billion rides per quarter and we’ve got trips growing at 35 percent on a year on year basis. It’s a combination of growing top-line over 35 percent, technology...
Posted On 12 Sep 2019
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Google to treat nofollow link attribute as a ‘hint’

Google is also adding two new link attributes, one for sponsored links and one for user generated content links. Google has announced Tuesday that today the nofollow link attribute (i.e. rel="nofollow“) will be seen as a “hint” rather than as a directive for ranking purposes. In...
Posted On 12 Sep 2019
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Darktrace CEO: People Are Going To Give a Hard Look At Cloud Security

“People are going to really give a hard look at cloud security,” says Darktrace CEO Nicole Eagan. “At the end of the day, it also says when you have something of this scale why not use some artificial intelligence or something that could have spotted this. Actually what was done...
Posted On 11 Sep 2019
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Customers Accelerating Their Digital Transformation, Says HPE CEO

“Customers continue to affirm the need to accelerate the digital transformation and take advantage of the explosion of data we see around us,” says HPE CEO Antonio Neri. “This ultimately is the core aspect of how they derive an improved business outcome. We have a very complete...
Posted On 09 Sep 2019
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Bing Ads multiple language targeting: What you need to know

There are important nuances to ensuring your ads reach users in the languages they understand. Bing Ads has issued additional guidance for advertisers that want to target multi-lingual users who may search in multiple languages. Why you should care. Multiple language targeting at...
Posted On 09 Sep 2019
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