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Recognizing that text doesn’t always convey the nuances someone may be feeling, Twitter is testing voice tweets. Over the years, Twitter has unveiled a number of features designed to help people communicate more, from longer tweets to scheduled tweets to retweeting with media....

Verizon Business has announced a definitive agreement to buy up Zoom competitor BlueJeans, as the videoconferencing market heats up. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, videoconferencing has become one of the most critical components that has allowed businesses, schools, religious...

Smart Shopping campaigns aren’t just a feature update. “[It’s] a totally fascinating product, but has some drawbacks as well,” Mike Ryan, product management lead at Smarter Ecommerce, said of Google’s Smart Shopping campaigns, which use automated ad placement and bidding to...

Check out the latest upgrades made to Bing around voice, image and answer search. Bing announced large upgrades to their text-to-speech capabilities in voice search, improvements to their intelligent answers and visual search capabilities. Intelligent answers. Bing’s intelligent...

Advertisers bid on each others brand and trademarked terms to steal website traffic. This commonplace practice goes largely unchecked across major search verticals and is extremely difficult to monitor at scale. Read this report from Adthena to take the first step towards...

Apparently, people don’t like being kept in the dark. This week, SEOs learned that Google stopped supporting the rel=prev/next markup (that indicates a web page is part of a larger set of pages) within its indexing process years ago. Having factored rel=prev/next into their site...

Following reports the Trump administration was in talks with chip makers to build US factories, TSMC has announced plans to do just that. TSMC is the primary provider of chips for Apple’s iPhones and iPads, as well as a variety of other smartphone makers. The news is a big win...

Apple has said a recently discovered iOS Mail vulnerability poses no immediate threat and a fix is coming soon. As previously covered, security firm ZecOps discovered a flaw in iOS Mail, affecting both iPhones and iPads. The flaw involved a blank email being sent to a device, an...

Researchers have discovered a flaw in the iOS version of Mail that may have left countless iPads and iPhones vulnerable to data theft. According to Reuters, the flaw was found by San Francisco-based ZecOps, a company specializing in mobile security forensics. The investigation...

Cortana has received some nice upgrades in Windows 10, with a focus on helping users be more productive. Cortana is Microsoft’s “personal productivity assistant,” and the company is doubling down in its efforts to make the assistant as helpful as possible. With an unprecedented...