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Coronavirus: Shopify Giving Employees $1,000 to Help Work From Home

It’s a good time to work for Shopify, as the company is giving employees $1,000 to help them make the transition to working from home. As the coronavirus pandemic spreads around the country and globe, Shopify has joined the ranks of tech companies instructing their employees to...
Posted On 16 Mar 2020
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Coronavirus: Google Tells All North American Employees to Telecommute

Just days after encouraging all Washington State employees to work from home, Google is telling all of its North American employees to do the same. According to Business Insider, Google sent out a memo on Tuesday recommending that all of its employees in North America avoid going...
Posted On 13 Mar 2020
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RootMetrics 5G Report: Verizon Is Fastest, T-Mobile Has Best Coverage

RootMetrics released its latest report on the state of 5G and the results are exactly what one would expect. According to the report, Verizon had the fastest 5G network by a wide margin. Its fastest median speeds were 247 Mbps, while its fastest maximum speeds were 845.7 Mbps. In...
Posted On 12 Mar 2020
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Four tips to help your brand thrive despite Google’s notification changes

The browser Google Chrome (v80) is following in the footsteps of Mozilla Firefox (v72) and Apple Safari (v12.1) for notifications—websites that ask for opt-in immediately will now be only able to use quiet notification prompts. These prompts are far less visible than the standard...
Posted On 11 Mar 2020
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Clearview AI Caught Lying About Who Can Use Its Software

The hits keep on coming: Clearview AI has been caught lying about who can access its controversial facial recognition software. Clearview has amassed a database of billions of photos, scraped from millions of websites, including the biggest social media platforms. The company...
Posted On 09 Mar 2020
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Apple Will Allow Push Notification Advertising

iPhone and iPad users may soon be receiving advertising via push notifications, according to Apple’s latest App Store review guidelines. First reported by AppleInsider, the new guidelines will allow developers to push advertisements using push notifications, as long as the user...
Posted On 07 Mar 2020
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Google Cloud Replaces AWS As MLB’s Cloud Provider

In its efforts to gain ground against AWS and Microsoft, Google has signed a multi-year deal to become Major League Baseball’s cloud provider. Google Cloud continues to be a distant third-place in the U.S. cloud market, behind leader AWS and second-place Microsoft. Despite its...
Posted On 06 Mar 2020
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Is SEO dead in 2020?

The death of SEO is a topic that’s been batted around for years but is 2020 the year SEO, an industry with a history dating back more than 25 years, finally kicks the bucket? TikTok, digital PR, voice search – new terms have been coined and new social networks have popped up in...
Posted On 05 Mar 2020
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Google and Microsoft Reigniting Browser Wars

Some things are too good to last, and it appears Google and Microsoft’s BFF cooperation on the browser front is one of them, as both companies are taking swipes at the other. Microsoft’s current browser, Edge, uses Google’s Chromium rendering engine. Chromium is an open-source...
Posted On 04 Mar 2020
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Huawei Spending €200 Million to Build Plant in Europe

Huawei has announced it is preparing to spend €200 million to build a factory in Europe. Amid ongoing concerns its equipment opens governments and corporations up to spying by Beijing, Huawei likely hopes that manufacturing equipment locally for the European market will help...
Posted On 03 Mar 2020
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