Facebook will soon alter the way its 1.65 billion users discover stories in their News Feed. The social network will give preference to updates from friends and family over brands, the company announced. Why Is Facebook Making This Change? In a separate blog post today that tries to define what exactly the news feed is, […]
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Pinterest is upping its ecommerce game and wants to become the go-to social shopping platform. Here are the four new shopping features Pinterest has introduced to help businesses boost their online sales. 1. Pinterest Expands Buyable Pins To The Web Pinterest is bringing Buyable Pins to the web. Introduced a year ago, Buyable Pins were […]
Google has introduced a new feature to its search results that will be helpful next time you have to look up information about an earthquake in your area. According U.S. Geological Survey, approximately 500,000 earthquakes occur around the world every year, but only 100,000 of them are felt. Now, when earthquakes are felt, people can […]
Following in Bing’s footsteps, Google has been spotted testing out its own native internet speed testing tool directly in the search results pages. It appears that the test has not rolled out for everyone, but some searchers have reported seeing it after typing “check internet speed” into the Google search bar. The test measures download […]
The Facebook Like has a new look. The Like button, which is embedded on millions of web pages, is getting the “f” out and replacing it with the familiar thumbs up icon. The Like count will appear within the new blue button. Here’s a comparison of the current Like design and how it will change: […]
Just as you have 140 characters per tweet, you can now share videos up to 140 seconds in length on Twitter, the company has announced. Twitter introduced the ability to add video in 2015. Until now, you could only upload 30-second videos (except for a few select advertisers, who could post videos up to 10 […]
Up until now, Pinterest ad targeting has been super basic. You’ve been limited to options like location, language, device, and gender. But Pinterest advertising is about to get some much-needed features that have been available on Google, Facebook, and Twitter for quite some time. By the end of this month, advertisers will have three new […]
Waiting until nearly nightfall, Google has posted its Summer Solstice doodle on its U.S. homepage to observe the first day of summer and longest day of the year. This year, Google’s Summer Solstice doodle had something extra to mark beyond the changing of seasons. For the first time since 1967, the Summer Solstice coincides with […]
LinkedIn has released an app that has the potential to bring in more young people to its social network. The new app, appropriately titled LinkedIn Students, is made specifically for helping college students in their efforts to find jobs after graduation. The app assists students with everything from creating a profile, finding their career path, […]
Bing Ads announced Tuesday that it is developing the ability to share a budget across multiple campaigns. As in AdWords, advertisers will be able to apply a single budget to some or all campaigns in an account. Shared Budgets can be helpful for optimizing spend by automatically redistributing unused daily budget from low-spending campaigns to […]