Google has disclosed plans to improve its Cloud Speech-to-Text API using the same speech recognition technology that’s being utilized to power Google Assistant and Search. The updated API (formerly known as Cloud Speech API) is predicted to enhance its voice recognition performance and reduce transcription mistakes by as much as 54 percent. The announcement came last week […]
Month: October 2018
Farmgirl Flowers is a seven-year-old bootstrapped internet startup that sales flowers direct to the consumer and simply does it better. It is growing at 50 percent year over year, projecting $21.5 million in revenue in 2018. Founder and CEO Christina Stembel says that her “goal is to be a billion dollar company” and that they are […]
Ramaswamy will be replaced by Prabhakar Raghavan, Google VP of Engineering for Google Cloud Apps. That man running Google’s ad business, Sridhar Ramaswamy, is leaving after 15 years to become a venture partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm. Ramaswamy has been at Google for 15 years, most recently as SVP of Advertising and Commerce. Ramaswamy […]
With the Chrome update this month, now is a good time to change your final ad URLs if your site supports the HTTPS protocol. With Google starting to mark HTTP URLs as “not secure” in its Chrome browser this month, Bing Ads is recommending advertisers update their final ad URLs to HTTPS. For sites that […]
Twitter ad chief Matt Derella is at Advertising Week in New York City spreading the message that Twitter video advertising is the best platform to reach valuable audiences when they are most receptive. He says Twitter has never been more clear about what is our superpower. Matt Derella, Global Vice President, Revenue and Content Partnerships for Twitter, […]
First rolled out in April, Premieres videos allow Pages to post pre-recorded video as live footage. Facebook is rolling out its Premieres video format — pre-recorded videos that play as live footage — to all global Pages. The company is also expanding its Top Fans feature and Live Polls to global Pages as well. Why […]
Search Engine Watch Forums has a thread asking members What’s Your SEO Daily Routine? Now, I know many SEOs, some are morning people, some are evening people and some are sporadic. So typical in the SEO community, as with many other industries, is not so typical. I pattern I see in the responses include; Most […]
The European Union is on the prowl again in a likely attempt to win cash and concessions from Amazon. This is another investigation in a long string of investigations into American companies designed to extract big cash payments. European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, indicates that the issue is the possible use of third-party seller […]