According to Reuters, a judge has struck down a NYC rule “limiting how much time drivers for ride-hailing services can spend cruising streets in busy areas of Manhattan without passengers.” Uber and Lyft filed separate lawsuits challenging a NYC rule…
Waze Adds Snow Warning Feature With Winter Weather Reports
Waze, the popular community-driven traffic app, just received a major new feature in preparation for the winter season. According to a press release provided to 9to5Google, Waze has launched Snow Warning, a feature aimed at helping drivers navigate through dangerous…
Ford and Microsoft Using Quantum Computing to Alleviate Traffic Congestion
Quantum computing has long been held out as the next step in computing. Despite still being highly experimental, there continue to be major strides made in the field. One such example is a partnership between Ford and Microsoft, aimed at…
NYC Deploys IoT Sensors to Monitor Traffic and Reboot Signals
New York City’s traffic signals are going decidedly high-tech, with the rollout of IoT sensors, according to a press release by Transition Networks, Inc. The new system will monitor traffic at some 10,000 intersections and reboot malfunctioning signals. Transition Networks…
Twitter Hasn’t Been A Great Traffic Source For Publishers
Twitter, compared to Facebook, Google, and even Yahoo, really isn’t very good for driving referral traffic. This is at least the case when it comes to news publishers as new data from Parse.ly finds. This week, Nieman Lab shared data…
Getting Higher CTR on Your Content on LinkedIn
What’s a good way to get more engagement and higher CTR on your content on LinkedIn The short answer is to have your employees share it. Do you encourage employees to share company content with their LinkedIn accounts? Let us…
You May Now Be Able To Get More LinkedIn Traffic
There’s a chance that you may now be able to get more traffic from LinkedIn to your blog than you could have before. Is LinkedIn a significant part of your content marketing strategy already? Let us know in the comments.…
Using StumbleUpon To Get Traffic [Infographic]
StumbleUpon is going through some major changes as a company. It recently went through some restructuring and is now once again owned by its co-founder and former CEO Garrett Camp. The team is now working on a new product from…
Facebook: Referral Traffic On The Rise
The writing has been on the wall for quite some time. Depending on Facebook as your sole traffic generator is a bad idea. This has been abundantly clear over the past two years as the organic reach of many Pages’…
Do Short and Sweet Facebook Posts Drive More Traffic?
Like you, NPR sure would like more of its Facebook followers to click through to its site. And like you, NPR is looking for a way to optimize its Facebook traffic. Let’s face it – getting Facebook users to click…