LinkedIn formally joins EU Code on hate speech takedowns
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has committed to doing more to quickly purge illegal hate speech from its platform in the European Union by formally signing up to a self-regulatory initiative that seeks…
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Twine raises $3.3M to add networking features to virtual events
Twine, a video chat startup that launched amid the pandemic as a sort of “Zoom for meeting new people,” shifted its focus to online events and, as a result, has…
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Sneak Preview of Brave Search – A Challenger to Google
A new privacy-first search engine from Brave is currently in preview and testing mode. Their goal is to surpass Google by indexing more of the web, respecting user privacy and…
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How to Optimize Microsoft AdCenter for More Effective Paid Campaigns
Gaining paid search footholds can be challenging, and once you’ve built a successful Google Ads campaign and watched it perform, it can be disheartening to reach the end of that…
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Microsoft Advertising Also Expands Phrase Match To Cover Broad Match Modifier
Microsoft Advertising has announced it will soon begin to allow “phrase match will begin to incorporate behaviors of broad match modifier.” This is a similar move Google did back in…
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Microsoft Bing Rolls Out 5 Upgrades to Search Results
Microsoft Bing is launching five updates to search that aim to evolve SERPs beyond a list of links to provide users with a richer experience. Bing’s latest updates have one…
Read more »Microsoft Azure expands its NoSQL portfolio with Managed Instances for Apache Cassandra
At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, its latest NoSQL database offering and a competitor to Cassandra-centric companies like Datastax. Microsoft…
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Amazon eyes launching its computer science education program in India
Amazon is planning to extend its computer science program Future Engineer to India, demonstrating its growing interest in the education space in the world’s second largest internet market. In a…
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Microsoft Ads LinkedIn Profile Targeting: A Review
Recently, Microsoft Ads unveiled a new targeting option that marketers had been curious about since Microsoft’s LinkedIn acquisition a couple of years ago. LinkedIn, like Facebook and other social media…
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Microsoft Bing is Launching an Xbox App
Microsoft is launching a Bing search app for Xbox One, which offers some unique hardware integrations for gamers. With the Microsoft Bing app, Xbox users can search the web, discover…
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