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Month: August 2021

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United Wholesale Mortgage Will Accept Crypto By Year’s End

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United Wholesale Mortgage has announced it will accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency by year’s end. Cryptocurrencies are gaining mainstream traction, with multiple companies accepting them, or investigating the possibility. According to TheStreet, United Wholesale Mortgage plans to accept Bitcoin initially, with support for Ethereum and others coming later. “We’ve evaluated the feasibility, and we’re looking forward to being the first mortgage company in America to accept cryptocurrency to satisfy mortgage payments,” said CEO Mat Ishiba “That’s something that we’ve been working on, and we’re excited that hopefully, in Q3, we can…

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Marketing 

Should You Invest in Cyber Insurance?

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The digital age has brought many positive changes to how people do business.  Companies of all industries and sizes rely on electronic storage for their data, be it on computer hard drives or the internet.  Online access and commerce is also flourishing; in the next couple years, over 5 billion people worldwide will have access to the internet.  Yet despite all the benefits, there is one major drawback to the internet system: the growing risk of cyber crime. Hopefully cyber insurance can help cure some of these ills. Cyber attacks…

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Bing 

Niagara Falls Photo Wins Bing Hometown Homepage Photo Contest

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After asking users to submit photos of their hometown back in August, Bing announced today Prasad Karkera’s photo of the Niagara Falls has won its Hometown Homepage Photo Contest. Karkera’s photo was one of ten selected by Bing and then voted on via a public vote by Bing users. Taken from the New York State […] After asking users to submit photos of their hometown back in August, Bing announced today Prasad Karkera’s photo of the Niagara Falls has won its Hometown Homepage Photo Contest. Karkera’s photo was one of ten selected by…

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Is Google adjusting the FLoC strategy?; Friday’s daily brief

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Plus, HTML success factors for SEO Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, and do you set it and forget it? I saw one of those viral, hustle-culture tweets the other day that made me do a double-take. I won’t link to the original, but someone wrote that YouTube/Google SEO is one…

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Social 

Instagram is adding more e-commerce support with ads in the Shop tab

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The test is currently limited to a handful of retailers in the U.S., but the ads, which are already showing domestically, will be rolling out globally to users in the coming months. Instagram is now testing ads in the Shop tab, TechCrunch first reported on Monday. The ads can include a single image or a carousel of images, and the test is currently only open to a handful of retailers. The ads are rolling out now to mobile users in the U.S. Why we care Ads in Instagram Shops may provide retailers…

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SEO 

‘High-quality content’ tips from Google’s own style guides

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To meet Google’s standards for content that deserves a high rank, contributor Brian Ussery suggests following the guidelines the search giant has set for its internal content creators. Google has long stressed the importance of “high-quality content” but has provided little, if any, help for those seeking to create it. Until now. Last month, Google’s Developer Relations Group publicly published five different guides aimed at helping its own creators “striving for high-quality documentation.” And “documentation,” when posted online, means digital content. Now available: Developer Documentation Style Guide HTML/CSS Style Guide JavaScript Style Guide Java…

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SEM 

Maximizing your mobile impact

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Search marketers, are you prepared for a mobile world? Columnist Amy Bishop discusses trends and opportunities to help guide your optimization effort and make the most of your mobile experience. Whenever people talk about mobile search, one of the first things that always comes to mind is location, location, location. Since mobile phones are… well, mobile, these devices open up opportunities to target consumers who may otherwise have been hard to reach. Proximity According to a Consumer Barometer Survey, 82 percent of smartphone users utilize search engines to look for a local…

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Tesla Cybertruck Production Delayed to 2022

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Customers eager to get their hands on Tesla’s electric pickup truck will have to wait a bit longer, as the company has delayed production to 2022. Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck to a great deal of fanfare. Ever the showman, Elon Musk proudly displayed a demo of the Cybertruck beating an F-150 in a tug-of-war, the validity of which some of questioned. While mass production was always planned for 2022, Musk had previously said there would be at least some deliveries in 2021. That appears to have changed, if the company’s order…

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Marketing 

Starlink Speeds Giving Traditional Broadband a Run For Their Money

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Starlink may be the new kid on the block in the broadband industry, but it’s already giving traditional companies a run for their money. Starlink is the satellite internet service being deployed by Elon Musk’s other company, SpaceX. Unlike traditional satellite services, such as HughesNet and Viasat, Starlink’s satellites are in low-Earth orbit. This gives the service speeds and latency much closer to traditional broadband. According to the latest Ookla Speedtest data, Starlink is closing in on fixed broadband and, in some cases, has surpassed its speeds. In the US, the…

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Bing 

Potential Microsoft CEO Elop Would Consider Selling Bing

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The Microsoft CEO derby is heating up. As we discussed earlier this week the short list is down to a handful of candidates, including current Ford CEO Alan Mulally and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop (soon to rejoin Microsoft in charge of devices). Apparently Elop has floated some bold ideas that may vault him to the […] The Microsoft CEO derby is heating up. As we discussed earlier this week the short list is down to a handful of candidates, including current Ford CEO Alan Mulally and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop (soon…

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