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Apple Fined Record Amount by France Over Price-Fixing

France’s competition authority, Autorité de la concurrence has fined Apple a record €1,1 billion ($1.23 billion) for price-fixing. At the heart of the issue is Apple’s practice of requiring distributors to sell Apple’s products for the same price as Apple itself, giving little...
Posted On 14 Jul 2020
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DocuSign Acquires Liveoak Technologies to Offer Remote Notarization

DocuSign has acquired Liveoak Technologies in an effort to offer remote notarization services to customers. As an unprecedented number of individuals are working from home and companies are conducting business remotely, the ability to sign documents remotely is more important...
Posted On 13 Jul 2020
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8 free keyword research tools for SEO (that beat their paid alternatives)

Do you really need to pay a fortune to find the best SEO & PPC keywords for your business? If you Google for a list of SEO tools, you’ll see there are almost 200 options on the market now. All of them differ in features, amounts and sources of data, and, definitely, prices....
Posted On 11 Jul 2020
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Apple Will Continue to Use Thunderbolt With New Macs

Apple plans to continue using Thunderbolt, despite moving away from Intel to their own custom processors. At WWDC 2020, Apple unveiled its plans to replace Intel with its own ARM-based silicon that it has been using in the iPhone and iPad for years. The iPad Pro, in particular,...
Posted On 10 Jul 2020
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WSJ: GoogleBot can add products to shopping carts

Make sure to double check those abandoned cart metrics; they may be inflated. A Google crawler has been adding products to e-commerce site shopping carts, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Sellers have been complaining about a serial cart abandoner named, John Smith....
Posted On 09 Jul 2020
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Answers to common questions about YouTube Ads

Here are some tips on how to structure your video campaigns, measure performance and get in front of the right audience. I never hide my love of YouTube ads. It’s my favorite channel to use to run paid campaigns because it’s a cost-effective way to build brand awareness and also...
Posted On 08 Jul 2020
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SMX Advanced Overtime: Your questions answered about webspam and penalties

Bing’s Frédéric Dubut and ex-Googler Fili Wiese covered a wide range of questions in Seattle and will be sharing more insights at SMX East. Frédéric Dubut and Fili Wiese speaking at SMX Advanced in Seattle in June. This session was so popular they will be teaming up again...
Posted On 07 Jul 2020
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Google Raises YouTube TV Price

Google has announced a price hike for its YouTube TV streaming service, following its distribution agreement with ViacomCBS. YouTube TV has garnered mostly positive reviews as one of the premier TV streaming services available. One glaring omission was the lack of some ViacomCBS...
Posted On 06 Jul 2020
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Shopping ads are eating text ads: Accounted for 60% of clicks on Google, 33% on Bing in Q1

Merkle’s Q1 2018 report shows Shopping campaigns dominate retailers’ paid search click volume. Shopping campaigns on Google and Bing continued to fuel paid search spend in Q1 2018, according to digital agency Merkle’s latest quarterly report. Overall, search spend...
Posted On 05 Jul 2020
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6 fundamental SEO truths to live by

This “Declaration of SEO” from Bruce Clay presents guiding principles for creating or implementing a website and/or SEO program. This “Declaration of SEO” from Bruce Clay presents the guiding principles that every website owner, website publisher and search engine...
Posted On 02 Jul 2020
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