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Salesforce Buys Slack for $27.7 Billion

Salesforce announced that it is buying Slack for $27.7 billion in cash and stock. The company says that combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be transformative for customers and the industry. They say that the combination will create the operating system for the new...
Posted On 29 Jun 2021
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Venmo to Allow Business Transaction on Personal Accounts

Venmo is making a major change to its terms of service, allowing business transactions on personal accounts for the first time. Venmo is a popular digital payment app that is owned by PayPal. Until now, the company did not allow business transactions on a personal account....
Posted On 28 Jun 2021
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Local businesses can solicit GoFundMe donations via Bing Places

The donate feature is currently available for new GoFundMe campaigns, with support for existing fundraisers coming in the next few weeks. Bing has partnered with crowdfunding platform GoFundMe to facilitate donations to local businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the...
Posted On 26 Jun 2021
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Best practices for qualifying your link opportunities

So, you’ve got a list of potential linking partners, but how do you qualify them? Columnist Ryan Shelley shares his process. Links are an essential part of the internet. In the early days of the web, links were not seen as “ranking signals” but as relevant connections and...
Posted On 23 Jun 2021
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Machine learning for large-scale SEM accounts

Can machine learning be applied to your PPC accounts to make them more efficient? Columnist David Fothergill describes how he utilized machine learning to find new keywords for his campaigns. A key challenge when working on what we could term “large-scale” PPC accounts is...
Posted On 22 Jun 2021
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California DMV Reviewing Tesla Over Self-Driving Claims

Tesla is currently “under review” by California’s DMV to determine if the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology claims were misleading. Like many companies, Tesla has been working toward autonomous driving technology. Autonomous driving software is ranked on a scale of 0...
Posted On 21 Jun 2021
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Intel Considering a Purchase of Chipmaker SiFive

Intel is looking at possibly purchasing chipmaker SiFive, as it looks to compete with Arm Holdings. Once the dominant chipmaker in the world, Intel has lost its luster, losing much of the mobile market to Arm Holdings. Arm’s chips are renowned for offering the optimal blend of...
Posted On 18 Jun 2021
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Bing Quietly Adds A Scientific Full Size Calculator

Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has finally added a full size scientific calculator to their search results. Daniel Rubino from WP Central first noticed this addition on Friday saying that now when you search for a math answer, not only do you get the answer, but you also get an...
Posted On 17 Jun 2021
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SpaceX in Talks With Airlines to Provide In-Flight Starlink Internet

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is in talks with “several of the airlines” to provide in-flight WiFi using the company’s Starlink satellite internet service. Starlink is the company’s constellation of satellites in low-Earth orbit, designed to provide internet access. Because they are in...
Posted On 16 Jun 2021
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Apple News Could Account for $2.2 Billion and 19 Million Users by 2023

Investment bank Cowen is predicting Apple News+ will account for $2.2 billion in revenue and have some 19 million users by 2023. Apple News+ is the company’s subscription-based news service that provides news and magazines from popular sources. Many of the nation’s largest...
Posted On 15 Jun 2021
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