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Facebook F8 2016 Conference Is Open For Registration
Facebook just announced that registration is now open for F8 2016. IT takes place in San Francisco on April 12 & 13. F8 2016 – Registration is Now Open! Come meet with other developers and innovators who are excited about connecting the world! We're hosting …
Twitter Rolls Out New Home Timeline On Mobile Web
Twitter announced that it is rolling out a new home timeline to people in 23 countries when they go to Twitter.com from their mobile devices. These countries include: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Japan, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Saudi …
Gmail, WhatsApp Both Announce 1 Billion Users
On Monday, Google parent Alphabet released its financials for Q4. On the ensuing conference call, the company revealed that Gmail now has a billion monthly active users. They celebrated on Twitter (via 9to5Google): Thanks a billion for helping us make Gmail better and better!https://t.co/Rd82YqwGjl — …
Yelp Plasters Consumer Alert Warnings On More Business Pages
Yelp announced that it is releasing a new round of consumer alerts covering 37 business listings. The number is down from last time when in September, Yelp slapped 51 business listings with the warnings. As usual, Yelp is calling out specific businesses in a blog …
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Kickstarter Launches ‘Projects We Love’ Badge
There are a ton of projects launched on Kickstarter all the time, and now, the crowdfunding platform has a new way to highlight stand-out projects. On Tuesday, Kickstarter announced the “Projects We Love” badge, which it considers a simple way to feature projects that “go …
Gmail, WhatsApp Both Announce 1 Billion Users
On Monday, Google parent Alphabet released its financials for Q4. On the ensuing conference call, the company revealed that Gmail now has a billion monthly active users. They celebrated on Twitter (via 9to5Google): Thanks a billion for helping us make Gmail better and better!https://t.co/Rd82YqwGjl — …
Yelp Plasters Consumer Alert Warnings On More Business Pages
Yelp announced that it is releasing a new round of consumer alerts covering 37 business listings. The number is down from last time when in September, Yelp slapped 51 business listings with the warnings. As usual, Yelp is calling out specific businesses in a blog …
Alphabet Impresses On Revenue, Earnings
Google parent Alphabet announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2015. The company beat Wall Street estimates for the quarter on earnings per share ($8.67) and revenue ($21.32 billion). Cost per click on ads was down 13% year-over-year. …
Google Preps Series of Hangouts To Discuss AMP Ahead of Launch
Later this month, Google will begin sending search traffic to Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), and to get webmasters and publishers ready, they’ll be hosting a series of hangouts around various elements. “Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a global, industry-wide initiative, with publishers large and small …
Microsoft Extends Office 365 Migration Service to SMBs
Microsoft is now offering SMBs assistance with moving to Office 365 by extending onboarding and migration support to customers between 50 and 149 seats through its Microsoft FastTrack service. FastTrack was previously only available to customers with 150 seats or more. “Microsoft partners who serve …
Facebook News Feed Gets More Ranking Adjustments
Facebook is messing with the News Feed again. This is an ongoing thing that will never change, but Pages will always face the possibility of increased or decreased reach and referral traffic based on the social network’s whims. How has your Page adjusted to Facebook …
Google Compute Engine Ups Storage Limits
Google announced that it is increasing the size limits of all Google Compute Engine block storage products, including Local SSD and both types of Persistent Disk. You can get up to 64TB of Persistent Disk per VM for most machine types including standard and SSD-backed …
Google Extends AdWords Manual Location Extension Sunset
In December, Google launched of the Google My Business API aimed at making it easier for big businesses and third parties to integrate with the Google My Business platform and publish updates to customers on Google Search and Google Maps. The API was actually announced …
The ‘New comScore’ is Here
comScore announced that it has completed a merger with Rentrak and that the two are now one as the “new comScore”. What does this mean? According to comScore, it means “a new model for a dynamic, cross-platform world.” The company says it will use massive …
Facebook Is Shutting Down Parse
Back in 2013, Facebook acquired Parse, a cloud-based platform for cross-platform apps, which let developers create rich social apps integrated with Facebook across platforms like iOS, Android, HTML5, etc. The company announced late on Thursday that it is shutting Parse down. They’re beginning the wind-down …
For Buisnesses, More to Come with Facebook Messenger
Last year at its F8 conference, Facebook introduced business features for Messenger, though so far, things have been pretty limited. The ecommerce businesses that have been using it, however, have been happy with it so far. That is according to Mark Zuckerberg. Are you looking …
Microsoft Earnings Out, Revenue $25.7 billion
Microsoft just announced its earnings report for its fiscal year 2016 Q2. The company beat Wall Street expectations for revenue and earnings per share at $25.7 billion and $0.78 respectively. The company says its results are highlighted by its cloud strength. CEO Satya Nadella said, …
Amazon Earnings Out, Sales up 22%
Amazon just announced its earnings for Q4 with sales up 22% to $35.7 billion. Operating cash flow was up 74% to $11.9 billion over the year with free cash flow up to $7.3 billion. EPS was $1, which was significantly lower than Wall Street expectations. …
Google Finally Launches AdWords App For iOS
After all these years, somehow Google didn’t have a dedicated AdWords mobile app until last March when it launched one for Android. Somehow, it has still taken nearly eleven months to launch the iOS version, but it’s here now. It’s rolling out to all customers …
Reddit Announces Android App Beta, New iOS App to Follow
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced on the site today that the company is putting out an Android app (in beta) today with a new iOS app to follow. The announcement is just casually noted in a longer post about Reddit in 2016. It talks about …
Google Adds Google Analytics Support for AMP
While this was always intended to be part of the whole thing, Google just announced Google Analytics support for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), which the search engine will start sending traffic to next month. Earlier this week, Google said AMP will support most ad-serving scenarios …
Facebook Expands Live Video To All U.S. iPhone Users
Facebook began letting a small percentage of people in the U.S. stream live video from their iPhones early last month. Later in the month, they expanded it to all verified pages. On Thursday, the company announced that the feature is rolling out to all U.S. …
Yahoo Mail Mobile Apps Get New Features
Yahoo just made a couple of Yahoo Mail announcements. The iOS app is getting new customizable swipes and a recent attachments feature. The Android app is getting the swipes and new actionable notifications. Here’s what Yahoo says about new swipes for iOS (you can see …
Yahoo Updates App, Homepage
Yahoo announced some updates to its mobile app and homepage in the U.S. making it easier to get to news and content and follow developing news stories. The company says it looked at the latest mobile trends to guide its design of the new app …
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Twitter Rolls Out New Home Timeline On Mobile Web
Twitter announced that it is rolling out a new home timeline to people in 23 countries when they go to Twitter.com from their mobile devices. These countries include: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Japan, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Saudi …
Yelp Plasters Consumer Alert Warnings On More Business Pages
Yelp announced that it is releasing a new round of consumer alerts covering 37 business listings. The number is down from last time when in September, Yelp slapped 51 business listings with the warnings. As usual, Yelp is calling out specific businesses in a blog …
Alphabet Impresses On Revenue, Earnings
Google parent Alphabet announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2015. The company beat Wall Street estimates for the quarter on earnings per share ($8.67) and revenue ($21.32 billion). Cost per click on ads was down 13% year-over-year. …
Microsoft Extends Office 365 Migration Service to SMBs
Microsoft is now offering SMBs assistance with moving to Office 365 by extending onboarding and migration support to customers between 50 and 149 seats through its Microsoft FastTrack service. FastTrack was previously only available to customers with 150 seats or more. “Microsoft partners who serve …