Tag Archives: Updates

Google’s My Ad Center today will start rolling out to users, globally, to provide control over the kinds of ads they see across Google on Search, YouTube and Discover. New features and controls. The new My Ad Center controls will also allow you to block sensitive ads and learn more about the information used to personalize your ad experience. More controls for activities used to personalize ads. My Ad Center expands Google’s privacy… Source link

Google’s My Ad Center today will start rolling out to users, globally, to provide control over the kinds of ads they see across Google on Search, YouTube and Discover. “81% of consumers are more concerned with how their data is being used and 48% are turning away from services due to privacy concerns. At the same time, our research also says that people only want to see ads that are relevant and useful to them,” says Jerry Dischler, VP/GM… Source link

In further moves towards transparency to advertisers, Google quietly updated its “Unavailable Video” policy in Google Ads this week. The update gives advertisers a clearer understanding of the disapproval reason and how to rectify the issue quickly. Externalizing Video Ad Disapproval Reasons If you advertise in Google Ads, chances are you’ve been met with ad disapprovals with extremely vague reasoning. When Google Ads doesn’t lay out the issue at hand, it costs advertisers: Lost… Source link

  U.S. stock futures moved lower in the early trade Wednesday as a two-day rally spurred by the better-than-feared start to earnings season lost steam. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell 0.3%, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) ticked down 60 points, or 0.2%. Contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) were off by 0.3%. Netflix (NFLX) was in the spotlight following a big earnings beat Tuesday afternoon that included 2.41 million in new subscribers –… Source link

U.S. equity futures pushed forward for another day, extending a positive start to the week as earnings season sets into high gear. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose 1.3%, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) added 300 points, or 1%. Contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) advanced 1.6%. The moves in pre-market trading Tuesday come after all three major averages rallied in the previous session, with the S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq notching gains of… Source link

This shouldn’t have any real impact on SEO, or Google usage more broadly, but Google has announced a couple of changes to the display of Search results, in order to provide more clarity and transparency within its listings. First off, Google’s adding site names to search results on mobile, so that users can more easily identify the website that’s associated with each result at a glance. As you can see in these examples, now, you’ll see the website name and URL for each result,… Source link

Saturday was a huge day for boxing, with a pair of scintillating women’s bouts in London, opening it up. Claressa Shields defeated Savannah Marshall to become undisputed super middleweight champion, thereby becoming the only fighter to have undisputed titles in three weight classes. In the co-main event, Alycia Baumgardner edged Mikaela Mayer via split decision to become the IBF-WBC-WBO super featherweight champion. Now, it’s the men’s turn, with two more cards. In the main event of a… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by the pandemic has slowed down. But overall, the app economy is continuing to grow, having produced a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and… Source link

Google has now rolled out all of the promised Lock Screen widgets for its iPhone apps, including the Google app, Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome, Google News, and Google Drive. The rollout was completed today with two Lock Screen widgets for Maps, following five widgets for the Google app that were released on Wednesday. In version 233.0 of the Google app, the widgets include the following descriptions, with two widget sizes for Search: Search: Access Google Search from your Lock Screen Voice… Source link

Apple and Google said Wednesday they will roll out software updates to enable 5G support on their respective handsets in India, the world’s second-largest wireless market, just days after local bureaucrats began pushing the phonemakers to expedite their efforts. Reliance Jio and Airtel, India’s two largest carriers, have started to offer 5G services in select Indian cities in recent weeks, but many popular handsets in the nation currently don’t support the local airwaves. These… Source link