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Apple this morning offered an updated look at its App Store business with the release of its holiday sales figures. The company said App Store customers spent $1.8 billion in apps during the week of Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, driven largely by games. And App Store customers also hit a new single-day spending […]... →

The UK’s competition and markets regulator is seeking views on Nvidia’s takeover of Arm Holdings as it prepares to kick off formal oversight of potential competitive impacts of the deal. The US-based chipmaker’s $40BN purchase of the UK-based chip designer, announced last September, has triggered a range of domestic concerns — over the impact on […]... →

Can you please share an overview of the U.S. immigration system and how it works so I can get the big picture and understand what I’m navigating?... →

Facebook Pages are being redesigned. The social network announced today a significant change to the Facebook Page experience for creators and public figures, which includes a new look-and-feel, updated navigation, the introduction of a dedicated News Feed, a new Q&A format for engaging fans, and other tools and insights. Notably, the redesign will also do […]... →

Spending on cosmetics has usually weathered economic crises, but that changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, with stay-at-home orders and masks tempering people’s desire to wear makeup. This forced retailers to accelerate their online strategies, finding new ways to capture shoppers’ attention without in-store samples. Virtual beauty try-on technology, like the ones developed by Perfect Corp., […]... →

Eating less meat is the easiest way for anyone to lower their carbon footprint and the prepared food delivery startup, Thistle, has just raised $10.3 million to make that choice even easier for consumers.  The company delivers plant-based full menus (with meat options available for customers that want them) for its customers along with a range […]... →

Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters, advertisers and consumers to fork out huge sums to secure the chance to watch (and sponsor) their favorite teams and athletes. That content, unsurprisingly, also typically costs a ton of money to produce, narrowing the production and […]... →

Google's John Mueller had to confirm that you do not need to have a Google My Business verified business listing to show up in Google Web Search. You do need a Google My Business listing to show up well in Google Maps and in the local pack results or to show a local panel in search but not to rank in web search.... →

Подборка российских и зарубежных кейсов от агентства Embacy.... →

Ryan Moulton, a software engineer who has worked at Google for almost 15 years now, said in a HackerNews thread that the Google Search team and he personally have purposefully launched "ranking changes [in Google Search] that negatively impacted revenue substantially." He said this to drive a point that "there's an aggressive firewall between the ads and search organizations."... →

Google Search Console Coverage report and URL inspection tool silently follow redirects, as John Mueller of Google put it a while back. Glenn Gabe posted a useful reminder on Twitter yesterday that Search Console reports on destination urls and "if you see urls that are categorized as blocked by robots.txt or noindexed, but they aren't, they could be redirecting to urls that are."... →

We have seen restaurants have to deal with food ordering services being automatically added to their Google Maps and Google Local business listings. Now it seems professional service businesses, like law firms, need to worry about this happening as well.... →

YouTube has reversed a controversial ban on the account of TalkRadio, a News Corp-owned UK national radio station that covers news and current affairs. The station revealed yesterday its channel had been removed from YouTube but said it had not been provided with an explanation for the suspension. YouTube – A statement from talkRADIO. Listen […]... →

Senti Biosciences, a company developing cancer therapies using a new programmable biology platform, said it has raised $105 million in a new round of financing led by the venture arm of life sciences giant, Bayer. The company’s technology uses new computational biological techniques to manufacture cell and gene therapies that can more precisely target specific […]... →

In June Google launched new square map pins to take the shape of advertisements in Google Maps. Well, now Google is making it clear to some Google Maps users that these square pins are ads. Aaron Grote shared a screenshot of Google overlaying a dialog with this notice.... →

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С самого начала цифровой эпохи некоторые потребители отказывались воспринимать технологии как неотъемлемую часть современного мира. В своей книге «Цифровой минимализм: Фокус и осознанность в шумном мире» писатель и доцент Джорджтаунского университета Кэл Ньюпорт рассказывает, что эти люди научились осознанно определять место и ценность технологических продуктов в своей жизни. Это новое поколение покупателей растет и формирует культуру потребления будущего. И вот как они это делают.... →

The Covid-19 pandemic and specifically need for social distancing to slow the spread of the virus have continued to keep many of us away from the office. Now, increasingly, many organizations and people believe that it could usher in a more permanent shift to remote, distributed and virtual work. Today, a startup that has built […]... →

Изменение видимости сайта в поисковых системах является одной из важных метрик эффективности проведения SEO работ. Однако, что именно подразумевается под видимостью? И почему нельзя обойтись показателем поискового трафика сайта или количеством его показов на поиске? Если дать общее определение: Видимость сайта в поисковых системах — это количественная мера присутствия сайта в зоне видимости целевой аудитории. По всей видимости, термин "видимость сайта" ввел и популяризировал в Рунете Игорь Ашманов. Большинс... →

Основная задача цифровой трансформации заключается не только во внедрении новых технологических подходов и решений. Чтобы достичь долгосрочного развития, все сотрудники организации должны поддерживать это изменение и понимать его влияние на культуру и структуру бизнеса. Цифровой переход должен быть ориентирован на людей: руководству нужно убедиться в том, что все получают равные возможности для обучения и работы. Разберемся в том, как компании лучше реализовать этот процесс. В проекте Dig(IT)al рассказываем... →