Just one month removed from a $120 million dollar financing round, London-based cryptocurrency giant Blockchain.com announced Wednesday it raised another $300 million to reach a $5.2 billion post-money valuation. The Series C funding round comes as the 10-year-old crypto company reported hitting 31 million verified users across 200 countries. Blockchain.com CEO Peter Smith said the company has been able to raise $1.5 billion since its founding as institutional interest continues to swell with… Source link
Read More »What is going on at the southern border? Yahoo News Explains
Axios Biden puts Harris in charge of border crisis President Biden is putting Vice President Harris in charge of addressing the migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border, senior administration officials announced on Wednesday.Why it matters: Just as President Obama tasked Biden with fixing the U.S. economy after he assumed office in 2009, Biden is putting his own vice president in charge of a problem threatening to overshadow the new administration’s successful launch.Get market news worthy of… Source link
Read More »Google Refutes Data on ‘Zero-Click’ Searches and the Role it Plays in Guiding Referral Traffic
The SEO community has been rumbling over the past few days over a new study shared by SparkToro which suggests that more than two-thirds of Google searches now result in no click-through at all. As explained by SparkToro’s Rand Fishkin: “From January to December, 2020, 64.82% of searches on Google (desktop and mobile combined) ended in the search results without clicking to another web property. That number is likely undercounting some mobile and nearly all voice searches, and thus it’s… Source link
Read More »Google wants to give researchers money. Some no longer want to take it
When Luke Stark sought money from Google in November he had no idea he’d be turning down $60,000 from the tech giant in March. Stark, an assistant professor at Western University in Ontario, Canada, studies the social and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence. In late November, he applied for a Google Research Scholar award, a no-strings-attached research grant of up to $60,000 to support professors who are early in their careers. He put in for the award, he said,… Source link
Read More »Sen. Rubio to introduce amendment to change House PPP extension
Bloomberg Biden’s Likely Tax Wins Are Personal-Rate Hikes, Audits of Rich (Bloomberg) — Democrats will likely prove successful in raising individual income tax rates and in strengthening audits of wealthy Americans as they work on overhauling the U.S. tax code in coming months.That’s a key takeaway from a survey of 15 current and former White House and congressional aides specializing in tax policy completed by Bloomberg this month. A tax on unrealized capital gains, as envisioned by… Source link
Read More »Facebook, Twitter, Google CEOs Split Over Social Media’s Shield
(Bloomberg) — The leaders of the three most popular social media platforms are at odds over the thorniest public policy question they face: who’s responsible for policing the content that appears on their pages. At issue is a decades old law that protects social media companies from liability over content posted by users. The heads of Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Twitter Inc. are all slated to appear before a House panel Thursday to testify about the spread of false… Source link
Read More »‘There is competitive fun going on with Apple’
Benzinga 4 Intel Analysts On ‘Unleashed’ Event, The Risks Of Chipmaker’s Foundry Plans At Intel Corporation’s (NASDAQ: INTC) “Intel Unleashed” event Tuesday, CEO Pat Gelsinger shared his vision for IDM 2.0, the company’s integrated device manufacturing model. Here’s what the Street has to say. The Intel Analysts: BofA Securities analyst Vivek Arya reiterated an Underperform rating on Intel with a $62 price target. Raymond James analyst Chris Caso analyst maintained a Market Perform rating…. Source link
Read More »Google Shares Technical SEO Best Practices For Ecommerce Sites
Why Product Data is Different From Other Data Types Providing Product Information With Structured Data Providing Producing Information Through Google Merchant Center Final Notes Google provides guidance to SEOs and ecommerce site owners on best practices for providing the search engine with accurate information about products. When Google has timely and accurate product data it can apply special formatting in search results to assist shoppers with their buying decisions. Additional data that… Source link
Read More »Fourteen U.S. states sue Biden administration over oil and gas leasing pause
(Reuters) – Fourteen U.S. states including Louisiana and Wyoming filed lawsuits on Wednesday against President Joe Biden’s administration, challenging his pause on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. The legal actions, which seek to restore regular federal drilling auctions, came a day before the administration is set to launch a review of the oil and gas leasing program. Biden, a Democrat, in January signed an executive order putting on hold new leasing pending that review…. Source link
Read More »Google rubs it in with new Photos collection of all the pints you once enjoyed
You know what I haven’t seen in more than a year? The inside of a pub. Or a bar. Or, indeed, any kind of inn, hostelry, saloon, roadhouse, taproom, tavern, or beer hall where money can be exchanged for the sweet relief of drink. Google, though, hasn’t forgotten and has apparently decided to taunt me with a new tag in its Photo app dedicated to the stuff. As first spotted by 9to5Google, if you open up the Google Photos app right now, it should have a new Memories collection at the top… Source link
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