Roughly 18 months ago, Intel and Micron announced they had developed a new type of memory they dubbed 3DXPoint. While details have always been scarce on how the NAND flash competitor would perform in the real world, Intel made impressive claims about its reliability, power consumption, and performance. Today, Intel …
Read More »Google launches location extension display ads for local businesses
Google debuted a new display ad format on the Google Display Network this week to showcase local business information. The new location extension ad format rolled out in AdWords on Tuesday. The new ad format shows photos, store location and business hours, as well as an ad headline and copy as shown …
Read More »Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search
Google is undertaking a new effort to better identify content that is potentially upsetting or offensive to searchers. It hopes this will prevent such content from crowding out factual, accurate and trustworthy information in the top search results. “We’re explicitly avoiding the term ‘fake news,’ because we think it is too vague,” …
Read More »Microsoft launches less expensive flagship Surface Book without an Nvidia GPU
Microsoft’s Surface Book has been an intriguing foray into laptops since the company first launched it back in 2015. The November 2016 update didn’t really change much, beyond adding a GTX 965M option to the dock (Microsoft calls this its “Performance Base.”) Now, Microsoft has tweaked its SKUs and, in …
Read More »Jay Z launches Arrive to fund startups, offer branding support and more
Jay Z’s new venture capital firm Arrive, has arrived – the rap and business mogul has been planning the launch for awhile, according to reports that surfaced in February, but a press release from parent company Roc Nation made it official on Monday. The investment platform will work with early-stage …
Read More »Google quietly launches Meet, an enterprise-friendly version of Hangouts
Google has quietly launched a new video conferencing application called Meet by Google Hangouts, which is designed for HD video meetings. The web and mobile application appears to be the latest addition to Google’s lineup of business products known as G Suite, though the product page on the G Suite website listed …
Read More »Google launches Ads Added by AdWords pilot: What we know so far
Automation is nothing new in AdWords, but this month, Google launched a pilot that adds new text ads to advertisers’ accounts. Dubbed Ads Added by AdWords, the program started on January 26. Not surprisingly, this news has set off alarm bells among paid search managers that worry about Google usurping …
Read More »Twitter launches “Explore,” a new home for Moments, trends, search and live video
Twitter’s Moments feature, which allows users to tell stories through a collection of tweets, is no longer going be front-and-center in the Twitter application. Instead, Twitter will today replace the Moments section with a new tab called “Explore.” This area will serve as the home for finding out what’s happening on Twitter, …
Read More »Bing Ads launches Automated Imports to sync campaigns from AdWords
One of the most successful features of Bing Ads has been Google Import, which lets advertisers port over existing AdWords campaigns into Bing Ads. It has significantly spurred adoption by making it mostly effortless to give the platform a chance. Now, Bing Ads is adding Automated Imports for campaigns ported …
Read More »The new Google Voice launches, bringing a modern look, group chat, photo sharing & more
Confirming reports from earlier this month that a Google Voice update was in the works, Google today has launched a refreshed version of its VoIP calling service on mobile and the web. Largely, the update is about giving the product a more modern look-and-feel, after having not received a major …
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