Google Local Services Ads Get Automated by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, August 9, 2024 Google made changes to its Local Services Ads (LSA) this week. One feature will automatically select profile photos to display in advertisements, and the other aims to improve ad budgets by setting monthly maximums ad spend limit for certain account. … Continue reading Google Local Services Ads Get Automated
If Google Builds A Paywall For News, AI Subscription Services by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 24, 2024 Google is threatening to pull future investments in nonprofit news organizations across the U.S. if California passes a new bill. This is the second time Google said it would pause further investments in California newsrooms. The pause would … Continue reading If Google Builds A Paywall For News, AI Subscription Services
Google is urging those who have not yet fully migrated to Google Analytics 4 to do so as soon as possible to prevent potential data loss. Nicola Agius on April 5, 2024 Google issued a reminder that it will be discontinuing all Universal Analytics (UA) services and APIs on July 1, 2024. With Google Analytics … Continue reading Reminder – Google is turning off all Universal Analytics services and APIs
April 04, 2024 How business services companies are helping their clients become more efficient From keeping track of dinner reservations to assisting with navigating hospital parking lots, the companies recognized in the business services category of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies program aim to increase efficiency. BY Jay Woodruff Optimal efficiency has surely been the holy … Continue reading How business services companies are helping their clients become more efficient
A Threads beta lets you share to Mastodon and other fediverse services If you opt in, users on Mastodon can see and like your posts. Will Shanklin Updated Thu, Mar 21, 2024 Meta Fediverse support in Meta Threads is up and running in beta. Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Thursday that adult Threads users in … Continue reading A Threads beta lets you share to Mastodon and other fediverse services
Bluesky will let users run their own moderation services Users can subscribe to third-party labeling services for additional layers of moderation. Karissa Bell Wed, Mar 13, 2024 Bluesky Bluesky, the open-source Twitter alternative, is about to start testing out one of its more ambitious ideas: allowing its users to run their own moderation services. … Continue reading Bluesky will let users run their own moderation services
EU Digital Services Act now applies to all but the smallest businesses The DSA originally applied only to the big guys like Google and Meta. Now it governs almost all online platforms that reach a European audience. Kim Davis on February 16, 2024 The European Union’s Digital Services Act, aimed at preventing the spreading … Continue reading EU Digital Services Act now applies to all but the smallest businesses
The retail giant attributed its exceptional performance to investment in AI and its ongoing collaborations with ad partners. Nicola Agius on October 27, 2023 Amazon generated $ 12.06 billion from its advertising services in the third quarter of 2023. The figure marks a 26.3% increase from the same period in 2022 – a result significantly … Continue reading Amazon ad services revenue up 26% to $12 billion in Q3
By Tim Ringel October 13, 2023 Most of the press surrounding the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) has been focused on its impact on VLOPs or “very large online platforms.” And indeed, platforms like Amazon, Alibaba Express, Facebook, Google, and the like bear the greatest potential liabilities under the law. But what’s forgotten most … Continue reading How the Digital Services Act affects consumer experience
Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi Deanna Ritchie / Oct 12, 2023 Jack Dorsey, the founder of Block — which used to be Square — has now acquired Hifi, a music-focused fintech startup. HiFi was launched in the US in 2020. Matt Pincus joined the HiFi board and became an investor in the … Continue reading Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi
