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WSJ: Google Deal With Apple Worth $13 Billion A Year

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google may be paying Apple as much as $13 billion per year to be the default search engine for the Safari web browser which is included on all Apple devices. That’s up from $1 billion that Google paid Apple in 2014 which was disclosed in...
Posted On 10 Dec 2020
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Cloudflare, Apple and Fastly Create Improved, Private DNS

Engineers from Cloudflare, Apple and Fastly have worked together to create an improved DNS protocol that protects user privacy. DNS is the backbone of the internet, responsible for mapping domain names (such as WebProNews.com) to the IP addresses where the site and its content...
Posted On 09 Dec 2020
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China Looking to Expand Weather Control, Cover Half the Country by 2025

China is looking to expand its weather control program, making it possible to trigger artificial rain or snowfall in over half the country by 2025. Weather control involves “seeding” clouds with silver iodide or liquid nitrogen to trigger precipitation. The concept of cloud...
Posted On 08 Dec 2020
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Bing Pares Its Mapping Image Operations, Sells Some Assets To Uber

To focus on “core business strategy,” Bing will stop gathering its own mapping imagery and instead license data from third parties. Bing has decided to get out of the map imagery collection business and will rely on licensing deals to power some of its key mapping...
Posted On 07 Dec 2020
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PPC strategy: Planning beyond the click

Your paid search campaign may be getting a lot of clicks, but are you really making the most of them? Columnist Amanda Krause discusses how to succeed by focusing on the post-click experience. Google AdWords, Bing Ads and other paid media platforms are attractive channels to...
Posted On 04 Dec 2020
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Compare 17 top SEO tools and platforms

Organic search remains the most important step in the purchase funnel. But with hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and even millions of pages, sites, social conversations, images and keywords to manage and optimize, SEO has become increasingly complicated and time-consuming....
Posted On 03 Dec 2020
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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 02 Dec 2020
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Google Ads ends monthly campaign budget test

Any campaigns using it will be switched to daily budgets. Google has ended its short-lived test of monthly ad budgets, it appears. Advertisers that had access are now being notified, according to a screenshot of the notice that Gianpaolo Lorusso of AdWorld Experience tweeted on...
Posted On 01 Dec 2020
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With Windows 10, Bing Ads Anticipates 10 To 15 Percent More Search Volume By September

High hopes for Windows 10 to deliver search volume now that Bing and Cortana are built right in. With Wednesday’s launch of Windows 10, Bing Ads General Manager David Pann has outlined the benefits advertisers should expect to reap from the ways in which search is woven into the...
Posted On 30 Nov 2020
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IBM Acquiring Instana As It Focuses On Hybrid Cloud and AI

IBM has announced it is acquiring applications performance monitoring (APM) company Instana to aid in its hybrid cloud and AI strategy. IBM made headlines in October when it announced its plans to split itself into two companies. The legacy business will be split into a new...
Posted On 28 Nov 2020
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