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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reeves touts Google’s economic impact on Magnolia State  WDAM Source link

FILE – In this June 12, 2012 file photo, the Verizon logo is seen at Verizon store in Mountain View, Calif. Verizon is selling the segment of its business that includes Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion deal. Verizon said Monday, May 3, 2021, that it will keep a 10% stake in the new company, which will be called Yahoo. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm. Wireless company Verizon will… Source link

A video in Google’s Lightning Talks series, titled the state of web search engine optimization, presents data on how websites are following standard SEO practices. Aleyda Solis, SEO consultant and founder of Orainti, joins Lightning Talks as a guest presenter as she goes over the main learnings from the SEO chapter of the 2020 Web Almanac. The Web Almanac is a comprehensive report on the state of the web, which is backed by data and trusted experts. Solis authored the SEO chapter of the 2020… Source link

Floridians are known for the expression, “I live where you vacation,” and it turns out they are just as eager to plan their next trip as those from up north. According to a new study by Trips to Discover, Florida residents are actively searching for travel on Google more so than those from any other state in the United States, unchanged from 2019. The company ranked U.S. states by combining Google search activity scores across all three core categories: hotels, flights, and cruises. They… Source link

The New York Times Could Ron DeSantis Be Trump’s GOP Heir? He’s Certainly Trying. MIAMI — No one had to tell Ron DeSantis that his mock debates had bordered on disastrous. His answers rambled. He seemed uninspired. By the time he got to the greenroom of the biggest political stage of his career, a Republican primary debate for Florida governor in June 2018, he had made a risky decision. “I thought about everything we did in debate practice,” his campaign manager, Brad Herold, recalled… Source link

Exiled Tibetans protest the 2022 Beijing Olympics. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) The United States Department of State said Tuesday that a “joint boycott” of the 2022 Beijing Olympics “is something that we certainly wish to discuss” with allies. State Department spokesman Ned Price made the statement to reporters amid ongoing concerns about China’s human rights abuses and calls for action around what some activists have termed the “Genocide Games.” The Winter Games begin Feb. 4, 2022. White House… Source link

Oregon State’s run to the Elite Eight may have been the biggest surprise of a surprise-laden NCAA tournament. The journey came to a heartbreaking end on Monday. Houston put the clamps down on the Pac-12 Cinderella early and fended off a furious second-half rally for a 67-61 win to punch its ticket to the Final Four. The trip to the national semifinals marks the first Final Four trip for the program since Hakeem Olajuwon led Phi Slamma Jamma to its second-straight title game appearance in… Source link

Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. EXCLUSIVE: The National Cybersecurity Center and Google on Monday are launching a training program for state lawmakers and their staff in all 50 states to best prepare them for cyber threats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, FOX Business has learned. The initiative, Cybersecurity for State Leaders, will include nonpartisan trainings intended to prepare lawmakers and statehouse staff “to be vigilant… Source link

Tennessee became the third state to pass a bill requiring transgender athletes to compete in school sports according to their assigned sex at birth, with Gov. Bill Lee signing the bill on Friday, according to The Tennessean. The state joins Mississippi and Arkansas in limiting trans athlete participation, with similar bills currently on the docket in more than 20 state houses across the country. The bill moved quickly through the Tennessee legislature, with lawmakers advancing the legislation… Source link

Google’s Atlanta expansion is part of a $7 billion nationwide expansion by the company this year, which includes hiring 10,000 new full-time workers. A company spokeswoman declined to provide a breakout of how many new jobs Google will create in Atlanta this year. Atlanta has rival suitors on the East Coast for future Google projects. Google said last week that it will boost the size of its investments and hire more workers at existing offices in Boston, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.