Remember when “mobility” meant laptops and cell phones? Those were quaint times. Now the category encompasses the future of transportation — everything from flying cars and autonomous vehicles to delivery bots and beyond. There’s no better place to explore this rapidly moving industry than TC Sessions: Mobility 2020, our day-long …

Support for IF functions is now available globally in all Microsoft Advertising accounts. What are IF functions? IF functions allow you to automate customized messaging in expanded text ads based on a user’s device or audience segment. For example, if a user searching Bing has previously visited your site and …

Last week many local SEOs discovered that their Google Posts were being rejected. The speculated reason was that images in these Posts violated Google’s guidelines. However, according to a Tweet yesterday from Mike Blumenthal, a “fix” went live yesterday allowing new Posts to publish. Old Posts will post. The company …

Google seems to have pushed out some ranking algorithm change over the weekend that has resulted in a large shift in the rankings of many web sites. To be clear, Google has not yet commented on the speculation around this update or confirmed that an update even occurred. Always changing. …

This morning Yelp announced a new “video-centric” ad format, called Showcase Ads, as well as in-store attribution: Yelp Store Visits (YSV). Both offerings are aimed at national and multi-location brands. The company said these products were designed to address “specific pain points of national and multi-location businesses.” Showcase Ads. Yelp …

Warner Bros. has renamed the recently released film Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) to simply Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey. The reason? To make it easier for moviegoers to find tickets online, the company told The Verge Tuesday. The new title frontloads “Harley Quinn”, …

Creating content is a process that has to get smarter all the time. Google is continually improving how it understands naturally expressed human language, as perfectly evidenced in its BERT update from last October. Google has said – and webmaster trends analyst John Mueller has echoed – that there is …

If you are looking for ideas of things to do this upcoming long weekend, one thing you may want to consider is the Canadian International Autoshow at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre that starts this Friday the 14th of February and runs until the 23rd. You’ll find plenty of things …

  For more than a year, Intel has kept the exact details of its next-generation Xe GPUs tightly under its vest. We’ve gotten a few updates, like those about Ponte Vecchio, but the company has mostly let its advancing integrated graphics speak for itself (Ice Lake, which is based on …

A new species of tyrannosaurine dinosaur that lived about 79.5 million years ago (Cretaceous period) has been identified from fossils found in Alberta, Canada. Thanatotheristes degrootorum. Image credit: Julius Scotonyi, Royal Tyrrell Museum. “We are thrilled to announce the first new species of tyrannosaur to be discovered in Canada in …