Engineers at Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) in Tennessee have brought us one step closer to electric vehicles that charge themselves without any tedious plugging and unplugging. The researchers recently expanded a laboratory proof-of-concept wireless charging system to the real world using a modified Hyundai Kona EV. The wireless charging …
Read More »Yelp’s New Ad Types
Processings…Please wait. Yelp is launching two new ad units that will appear on its iOS app homepage, the company announced Tuesday. Sponsored Collections can enable brands to promote local businesses that may be selling or serving their products and Seasonal Spotlight Ads are designed to drive in-store traffic for multi-location …
Read More »Watch This Exclusive Two-Minute Clip From National Geographic’s ‘Genius’
Albert Einstein has gone down in history as a rebel with his tongue stuck out, an intellectual who would not be distracted from his quest for greatness. It’s easy to equate unswerving intellectualism with genius, but are they really the same? There’s more to the great thinker than just his …
Read More »Beautiful Provincial And National Parks To Visit For Canada’s 150th
With Canada celebrating its 150th birthday this year, it’s the perfect time to immerse yourself in the True North. In honor of this milestone, Parks Canada is giving out free 2017 Discovery Passes and Canadians have the chance to discover the parks and historic sites that our country has to …
Read More »[Reminder] Webinar — National Brands & Local Search: Use Insights to Drive Actions
With nearly one third of all mobile searches now related to location, the competition for visibility at the local level has heated up. Once a brand has submitted its data to data aggregators, then what? How can brands leverage performance metrics and data to measure their local search performance and …
Read More »Celtics expecting ‘National TV Rondo’
Rajon Rondo helped the Celtics win an NBA championship in 2008. Rondo is now with the Bulls, starting 42 games at point guard with 7.8 points per game to go with 6.7 rebounds and 5.1 assists. That fact is known to the Celtics, who are preparing to face Rondo and …
Read More »Microsoft publishes first National Security Letter in transparency report
Microsoft’s biannual transparency report was just released and, like many other major tech companies that have been putting out their reports recently, the company has revealed its first National Security Letter. The FBI uses NSLs to secretly obtain from tech companies investigative information about their customers. The letters do not …
Read More »National Brands & Local Search: Use Insights to Drive Actions
National brands with hundreds – if not thousands – of locations face a daunting challenge. With nearly one third of all mobile searches now related to location, the competition for visibility at the local level has heated up. Once a brand has submitted its data to data aggregators, then what? …
Read More »USTA National Campus
A couple of miles to the north, a freshly paved road leads to the USTA National Campus, a 64-acre, 100-court facility that sparkles like newly-whitened teeth and is the culmination of a four-year project to merge American tennis at all levels. “This place really is the future of tennis, not …
Read More »National retailers: Stop ignoring local SEO
When I worked in NBC’s Internet group, I had this idea to aggregate all of their local station websites into a single network. When I pitched it, my boss’ initial reaction was, “Why do you want to bother with the local affiliates? They are a royal PITA.” It’s been a …
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