India’s B2B supply chain is slowly shifting into the digital era. Following a $23 million investment for Moglix, which helps bring business and manufacturing procurement online, LetsTransport, a startup that brings increased efficiency to logistics and business transportation, has raised $13.5 million for growth. Founded in 2015 by IIT Kharagpur …
Read More »Google Home wins smart speaker IQ test but Siri beats Alexa and Cortana
Loup Ventures has published the results of its annual “smart speaker IQ” test. Google Home was the overall winner, but the surprise is that Apple’s HomePod and Siri bested Alexa and Cortana. 800 questions asked. The firm asked 800 questions to the virtual assistants and graded them on the basis …
Read More »Ask an SMXpert: Tips for dealing with (and avoiding) Google penalties
SEO Expert at SearchBrothers and former senior Google Search Quality team member, Fili Wiese, hosted a presentation at SMX East about the Google Search Console and penalties. He didn’t have time to answer every question from attendees at the event so he took the time to follow up with us. …
Read More »SEO Year In Review: 2018 saw Google updates and a focus on mobile
So, 2018 was an exciting year in SEO, with a number of large Google search algorithm updates, big changes within Google’s management team, mobile first indexing and all the changes with Google Search Console. In addition, Google local, Google My Business and maps related changes were very active this year. …
Read More »Why one marketer thinks smart speakers have their work cut out for them
Voice technology and voice search have, arguably, been adopted faster than any other technology in history. Analyst estimates on smart speaker penetration in the U.S. range from 40 to almost 80 million devices by the end of this year. Despite lots of hype and anticipation, these devices have not emerged …
Read More »Michael Parkhurst From Atlanta United Will Defend Cup Title.
ATLUTD announced that center back Michael Parkhurst, who was a free agent after the conclusion of the 2018 MLS season, will be returning next year. Since joining Atlanta via trade ahead of the 2017 expansion season, Parkhurst has started more games and logged more minutes than any other Atlanta player.
Read More »Manny Machado Will Not Hear A Decision Until January.
As Manny Machado and Bryce Harper offer their wares on baseballs open market, both are a decent bet to exceed the existing plateau for largest contract among North Americas major sports leagues. Yet even though Major League Baseball does not have a salary cap, unlike its counterparts in the NFL …
Read More »AMD Vaults Onto the NASDAQ 100 Stock Index
AMD has announced its imminent addition to the NASDAQ 100, a list composed of the 100 largest companies on the NASDAQ stock market based on total market capitalization. AMD’s stock price has increased enormously over the past few years and doubled since early January 2017. While it’s fallen from its …
Read More »Intel May Be Finished With Contract Manufacturing
There are rumors, sparked in part by Intel’s manufacturing announcement yesterday, that Santa Clara is preparing to exit the custom manufacturing business. DigiTimes, granted, isn’t known for being a solid single source in every instance, but the points made in the article not only echo what’s been obvious in the …
Read More »IBM, Samsung Ink Agreement to Build Future Power Chips
When GlobalFoundries announced it was pulling the plug on its 7nm process node and would instead invest more heavily in custom foundry work around its 22FDX and 12FDX processes, one immediate question was what would happen to IBM and its own Power line of products. Just over four years ago, …
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