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Facebook was dealt a major blow today as Judge James Boasberg ruled the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) suit against it will not be dismissed. The FTC had previously sued Facebook in December 2020, over what it said was anticompetitive behavior, only to have Judge Boasberg throw...

Search data provides a wealth of insights for marketers. At SMX Next, Matt Colebourne shows how to use this information to make better business decisions. Much like a physical marketplace, the online search environment has both its successful businesses and those that fail to...

Position Imaging has announced its Smart Package Room Partner Program, designed to help multi-unit properties deal with package deliveries. The global pandemic has upended the retail market, with consumers relying on home deliveries more than ever. The increased number of...

The UK government has hired a high-powered ad agency for a full-fledged assault on end-to-end encryption (E2EE). The UK government has long been opposed to E2EE. Despite the importance of E2EE in virtually every aspect of digital life, critics criticize it for making it harder to...

Microsoft announced that it has hired CloudeMade and OpenStreetMap (OSM) founder Steve Coast as “Principal Architect for Bing Mobile,” as well as a kind of liason to the “open map community.” According to data in the Bing post announcing Coast’s hiring, there are “more than...

Google has unveiled a dedicated ‘Desktop’ section in the Page Experience reports of its Search Console. Google had already rolled Page Experience for mobile, but is now adding the feature for desktop, and will soon use it as part of its desktop ranking system. We’ll begin using...

I’ve never encouraged a “Google First” or “Google Only” mentality for search marketers to follow. This is where you focus only on Google, figuring the other major search engines don’t matter. Instead, I’ve said that all the search engines are important...

Best Buy Ads offers consumer electronics and related brands with a Google alternative to reach customers. Best Buy has launched Best Buy Ads, its own in-house media company, the consumer electronics retailer announced Tuesday. Best Buy Ads offers paid search ads and sponsored...

Yoast SEO partnered with SEO tool provider Wincher for these capabilities. Yoast SEO added keyword phrase performance tracking to Yoast SEO 17.9, in partnership Wincher, the company announced. This lets those who use Yoast SEO to better understand how your posts are ranking over...

Robinhood is the latest company to go fully remote, embracing a “remote first” work culture. In the early days of the pandemic, companies around the world sent their employees home to work remotely. While many have continued to look for opportunities to bring their employees back...