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Bing Ends Sponsorship Deal With WNBA’s Seattle Storm

After a four-year sponsorship deal with the WNBA’s Seattle Storm, the Seattle Times reported yesterday that Bing will no longer be the marquee sponsor for the team co-owned by Microsoft executive Lisa Brummel. The report claimed the deal had been valued at $1 million per year,...
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Google released Google Ads API version 8.0

This is an upgrade from version 7.0 which was released on April 28, 2021, six-weeks ago. Google has released version 8.0 of the Google Ads API, announcing the key highlights of what is new in version 8.0. The previous version, version 7.0 was released about six-weeks ago on April...
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User Data at Heart of Roku and Google/YouTube TV Dispute

Roku has accused Google of “predatory, anti-competitive and discriminatory” actions regarding its YouTube TV streaming service. Roku is the number one streaming platform in the US, making it a major factor in the success of TV streaming services. Meanwhile, Google’s YouTube TV...
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The Divorce is Final: eBay Sellers Can No Longer Use PayPal

The end of an era has arrived as eBay is ending its support for PayPal for sellers. eBay first bought PayPal in 2002 before splitting the company off in 2015. The two companies continued to work together, but that appears to be coming to an end, at least for eBay sellers....
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Case study: On-page + off-page SEO working together = success

Contributor Eric Enge offers an insightful case study on the positive effects SEO-focused content created by local influencers can have on driving targeted traffic. I encounter many people who believe the basic blocking and tackling of search engine optimization (SEO) execution...
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Want better data from AdWords Keyword Planner? Use the forecasting tools, says Google

A step-by-step look at getting more granular estimates from Keyword Planner. Now that Google has officially limited access to Keyword Planner from just anyone or any bot that wanted some good search volume data, the team behind the tool is aiming to inform advertisers how to use...
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Facebook E-Commerce: A Look At Facebook Shopping Carts

Facebook pages can be quite a dynamic location for your brand and now there is a growing push towards monetizing pages from within Facebook. By utilizing shopping cart software built exclusively for Facebook, retailers can now sell products right on their Facebook pages – no need...
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How to measure Google’s E-A-T criteria and improve your organic results

In this live webinar, learn how to measure your website’s Topical Authority for any given topic. Google’s three pillars of E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness) is the Search Engine’s quality control to protect searchers from low-quality content. While it is an...
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Bing Maps Makes It Easier To See Map Features & Distinguish Park Trails From Streets

Last Friday, Bing Maps announced new stylistic updates, designed to make its maps easier to read. Among the new style features, Bing has added more color gradient, adjusting the brightness of a land area depending on the zoom level. From the announcement: The land color will now...
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Microsoft Azure and AWS Leading in IoT Onboarding and Lifecycle Management

A new Competitive Assessment report puts Microsoft Azure and AWS leading the pack in IoT deployment. AWS and Microsoft Azure are the two largest cloud platforms, and the two companies play an important role in IoT. According to ABI Research, the two companies are also leading the...