April 22, 2024 Apple quietly beefs up its AI division with acquisition of French startup Datakalab specializes in data compression and image analysis. BY Chris Morris Apple is far from the loudest voice in the world of artificial intelligence right now, but that doesn’t mean it’s planning to sit out the fight. The company quietly acquired … Continue reading Apple quietly beefs up its AI division with acquisition of French startup
YouTube Premium family plan now costs $23 a month Sean Buckley @seaniccus If you subscribe to a YouTube Premium family plan, you may want to check your email: Google is notifying users that the monthly cost of the service will be going up by $5 a month. Starting in November, most users will … Continue reading YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month
By Rob Walker Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. This month, Modelo Especial became the top-selling beer in the United States, surpassing longtime sales-champion Bud Light. So far, Modelo Especial’s crowning has largely been explained less in terms of Modelo’s rise than in terms of the … Continue reading How Modelo Especial quietly became America’s top beer brand
By Harry McCracken March 08, 2023 This story is from Fast Company’s new Plugged In newsletter, a weekly roundup of tech insights, news, and trends from global technology editor Harry McCracken, delivered to your inbox every Wednesday morning. Sign up for Plugged In—and all of our newsletters—here. There aren’t many websites I frequented back in 2003 that I … Continue reading LinkedIn’s quietly enduring importance
Google Quietly Tests New Way For Publishers To Monetize Web Sites by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, November 23, 2022 Google is testing a new feature with publishers that will enable the companies to “diversify their revenue” by providing new choices to monetize the site alongside traditional ads. The company says it will have more to share … Continue reading Google Quietly Tests New Way For Publishers To Monetize Web Sites
Google’s ‘raters’ are pushing for $15 an hour The company raised wages for some vendors, but RaterLabs wasn’t one of them. A. Khalid @askhalid SOPA Images via Getty Images Part-time employees at RaterLabs — an AI vendor whose only known client is Google — are campaigning to qualify for the $15 hourly minimum wage … Continue reading Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers ‘quietly unionized during the pandemic,’ report says
Microsoft Quietly Builds Economic Recovery Model To Support Digital Advertising, Predictive Analytics by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, December 18, 2020 Microsoft’s analytics team believes marketers who understand the economy better can improve search and digital media campaigns, so the company plans to integrate the reflection of real-life events into the data it publishes. This week, Joe … Continue reading Microsoft Quietly Builds Economic Recovery Model To Support Digital Advertising, Predictive Analytics
Google My Business Insights Report Quietly Adds Keyword Data by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 5, 2018 Google confirmed that it is running a small-scale rollout of an Insights analytics report in Google My Business that shows business owners the most popular search keywords that people use to find their listing. A Google spokesperson confirmed the … Continue reading Google My Business Insights Report Quietly Adds Keyword Data
Virginia Franco — April 29, 2018 Follow @VAFrancoResumes — April 29, 2018 FotografieLink / Pixabay With record low unemployment in 2017 and month-over-month job growth throughout the year, the 2018 job market continues to remain promising! If the idea of putting your toe in the job search waters, versus taking a full-body plunge, sounds appealing … Continue reading Not Ready for a Full-On Job Search? How to (Quietly) Explore Your Options
The Mobile Web Is Quietly Killing Off Retail Apps by Sean Hargrave, Staff Writer, February 20, 2017 Is the app dead? It has certainly been written off in conference speeches over the year as well as the occasional alarmist headline, but what we’ve all pretty much known all along really does now appear to be … Continue reading The Mobile Web Is Quietly Killing Off Retail Apps
