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Google Ads overreported conversions due to bug — working on a fix

Conversion reporting is affected between November 11 and November 20. Update 11/25: Google said it has fixed most of the reporting issues that resulted from this bug. If it looks like your Google campaigns have been more successful than usual since November 11th, that may not be...
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Facebook App Caught Activating iPhone Camera Without Permission

People have long suspected the Facebook app of ignoring permissions and spying on its users. Now, it would seem, a website designer has caught Facebook in the act. Joshua Maddox discovered the issue when transitioning between different Pages within the app. As Mr. Maddox tapped...
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Nokia Defends Its 5G Position: ‘We Don’t Have a 5G Problem’

Nokia has faced criticism that it is falling behind competitors Huawei and Ericsson in the 5G market. In an interview with Reuters, Nokia’s software business head Bhaskar Gorti, defended the Finnish company. “I don’t think we have a 5G problem,” Gorti told Reuters in the...
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How to find your ideal SEO agency

An ideal agency has expertise up and down the chain that can help demonstrate the skillset of the agency as a whole. As of this article’s publishing date, 17,353 agencies offer SEO services across the globe according to Clutch. In one of the most saturated service markets, how...
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EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager Doesn’t Think Breaking Up Big Tech Is the Answer

Once the darling of the U.S. economy, big tech has increasingly come under scrutiny, with some politicians—most notably Senator Elizabeth Warren—even calling for the breakup of big tech companies. According to a report by Business Insider, EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestag...
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What does Google Maps ‘incognito mode’ mean for businesses?

Google is giving consumers more control to opt-out but likely priming the market for more ambitious advertising products in Maps Google recently announced Android users will have the option to do incognito searches on Google Maps starting this month with iOS to follow soon. When...
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Facebook rolls out new corporate logo that will appear with all of its brands

The corporate logo will display on Facebook-owned services and platforms. Facebook introduced a new corporate logo Monday that will soon appear across its products. The plain all-caps logo has been “designed for clarity” to help differentiate the corporate entity from the social...
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Bing introduces penalty for ‘inorganic site structure’ violations

It includes penalties for subdomain leasing, doorway content and sites involved in private blog networks Bing is introducing a spam penalty against “inorganic site structure” violations, the search engine announced on Monday. The new penalty seeks to address tactics such as...
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Heard from Google, the biggest trends impacting PPC are privacy and automation

The bottom line on privacy is that user trust and business data involving customers must be shared with care as third-party tools gain importance with different search engines We’re now well past this year’s Google Marketing Live event which was hosted in June in San Francisco....
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Google Hires Former VP of Microsoft’s Office Product Group

Business Insider is reporting that Google has hired Javier Soltero, a former head of strategy for Microsoft Office. Soltero had left Microsoft in late 2018 amid internal reorganization. In his new role with Google, Soltero will take over as Vice President of G Suite. Google’s...