Google is extending the availability of bid and budget simulators to more smart bidding strategies. Bid simulator for Target ROAS. The bid simulator has been available only for manual and Target CPA bidding. It’s now available for Target ROAS campaigns. The screenshot below shows a bid simulator for Target ROAS …
Read More »Google buys Pointy to bring SMB store inventory online
Google is acquiring Irish startup Pointy, the companies announced Tuesday. Pointy has solved a problem that vexed startups for more than a decade: how to bring small, independent retailer inventory online. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Pointy had raised less than $20 million so it probably …
Read More »Leaked Photos Confirm Samsung Galaxy S20 Name and Design
Samsung is no stranger to skipping numbers. Remember the Galaxy Note 6? No, you don’t because it didn’t exist after Samsung jumped right from the Note 5 to the explosive Note 7. Now, Samsung is skipping a lot more numbers. The company’s next flagship phone won’t be the Galaxy …
Read More »OpenVR Benchmark Shows Unknown AMD Radeon GPU Beating RTX 2080 Ti by 17 Percent
AMD had a great start to 2020, but one product gamers had hoped to see — so-called “Big” Navi — was only briefly mentioned by CEO Dr. Lisa Su. We know that Big Navi is absolutely in the works, but not much more than that. Here’s Lisa Su on …
Read More »World’s Oldest Slime Mold Found in Amber
The fossilized fruiting bodies of a myxomycete from the extant genus Stemonitis preserved in Kachin amber date back some 100 million years (mid-Cretaceous period) and represent the oldest record of myxomycetes known to date. Overview of the Kachin amber specimen showing the close proximity of the myxomycete sporocarps (arrowhead) and …
Read More »Scientists Find 7-Billion-Year-Old Stardust in Murchison Meteorite
A team of researchers from the United States, Switzerland and Australia has found 4.6 to 7-billion-year-old presolar grains of silicon carbide (SiC) in the Murchison meteorite, a large C2 chondrite that fell in Australia in 1969. Scanning electron microscope image of the 6.2-billion-year-old grain of silicon carbide from the Murchison …
Read More »Grab ’em quick: More tickets released for 3rd Annual Winter Party at Galvanize
You better move fast if you want to party with us and 1,000 of your closest startup entrepreneur and investor friends. We just released a fresh round of tickets to our 3rd Annual Winter Party at Galvanize in San Francisco on February 7. Tickets are limited, and they fly off …
Read More »Google January 2020 Core Update rolling out later today
Google announced on the @SearchLiaison Twitter handle Monday morning that it is rolling out a new core update later today — the first core update for 2020. Google generally now rolls out these algorithmic updates every few months or so. The announcement. Google said, “Later today, we are releasing a …
Read More »Google rolling out desktop search redesign with black “Ad” label, favicons for organic results
Back in May Google released a redesign for the mobile search results with a new black “Ad” label and favicons by the URLs in the organic search result snippets. Several months after that launch, Google is now rolling out this redesign to desktop search results. The announcement. Google announced this …
Read More »Responsive search ads available globally in all Microsoft Advertising interfaces
After running responsive search ads in open beta for several months, advertisers in all available markets can now set up responsive search ads in their Microsoft Advertising accounts. Recommendations for RSAs. Responsive search ads (RSAs) are available via the web UI, Editor and Microsoft Advertising API, the company announced Monday. …
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