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Nvidia Says Its New Patch is Immune to Recently Discovered Spectre Bug

Last week, Nvidia ran into some problems with the recently revealed “Meltdown” and “Spectre” bugs. When the manufacturer announced that it would be releasing a new patch to address the memory-related vulnerabilities, some outlets misinterpreted the...
Posted On 06 Sep 2018
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Are social platforms finally growing a conscience?

Contributor Laura Collins examines changes being made by social media platforms to improve both the user and advertiser experience. I’d imagine Facebook now looks back fondly on 2016, when their greatest PR disaster involved reporting incorrect video metrics. This year, by...
Posted On 05 Sep 2018
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The Google expanded text ad CTR lift that never was

Contributor Andy Taylor shares his take on Google’s expanded text ads (ETAs), drawing comparisons to the new responsive search ad (RSA) format. Responsive search ads (RSA) are the hot paid search topic of the day. They give advertisers the ability to provide Google with up...
Posted On 05 Sep 2018
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EU Fines Google $5 Billion Over Android Antitrust

Less than 20 minutes ago, the whopping news broke that the European Union has fined Google $5 billion €4,34 bn over antitrust and competitive laws around Android. Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition wrote on Twitter that it is time Google stop these...
Posted On 04 Sep 2018
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Three ways to maximize the SEO impact of user-generated content

SEO and user-generated content have a complicated relationship. On the one hand, user-generated content can give search engines more information to work with, improve your rankings for long tail search traffic, and encourage community activity that generates links and other...
Posted On 04 Sep 2018
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Bing Ads Strongly Recommends You Use HTTPS URLs

Bing announced 10 days ago that they are now strongly recommending that you switch all your ad URLs from HTTP to HTTPS. “Bing Ads strongly recommends you update your URLs to use the HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP,” they wrote. They mentioned primarily two reasons: (A)...
Posted On 03 Sep 2018
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How to use SEO on LinkedIn

SEO on LinkedIn is too often overlooked, and it’s time you start viewing LinkedIn, just like Google, as a search engine. With access to a whole network of professionals, the opportunities for those who are savvy enough can be endless. LinkedIn is the most popular platform for B2B...
Posted On 03 Sep 2018
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Google Introduces New Metrics to Help Marketers Test Ad Strength

For some time now, Google advertisers have been frustrated by a lack of reporting metrics on Universal App marketing campaigns and responsive display ads. The limited data has made it difficult for these advertisers to determine which ad combinations are the most effective....
Posted On 31 Aug 2018
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Bing Ads Bans Cryptocurrency Advertisements

Advertisers who want to use Bing Ads to promote the sale of cryptocurrency, the digital asset such as Bitcoin and others, are not going to be able to do so in June. Bing announced they will be disallow cryptocurrency advertising on their platform. In June, Bing Ads will implement...
Posted On 30 Aug 2018
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Google faces potential class action, FTC penalties for ‘surreptitious’ location tracking

A lawsuit filed last week and a request for the FTC to enforce a consent decree both stem from the AP story about location tracking. A California resident named Napoleon Patacsil has filed a lawsuit against Google in federal court (Patacsil v. Google, Inc.) seeking class action...
Posted On 29 Aug 2018
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