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Mark Cuban: Some Banks Actively Not Taking PPP Loan Applications

April 22, 2020 news

“There are some banks who are actively trying not to take applications and to minimize the number of loans they make through the program,” says investor Mark Cuban. “This is despite the fact that it pays a five percent commission for the loans made on the small businesses. It might take the Treasury Department really pushing some banks who were unwilling participants to start to push some loans out there.” Mega entrepreneur Mark Cuban discusses the difficulties with the launch of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) designed to help small businesses…

Marketing

SAP Co-CEO Jennifer Morgan Leaving Company

April 21, 2020 news

SAP Co-CEO Jennifer Morgan is departing the company, leaving Christian Klein as sole CEO. Morgan has been with the company since 2004, and jointly held the role of CEO with Klein since October 2019. The company says that Morgan “mutually agreed with the Supervisory Board of SAP SE” to resign and depart, effective April 30. At the same time, the announcement makes clear that the current economic crisis was a driving factor, with the decision to get behind a single CEO being “taken earlier than planned to ensure strong, unambiguous…

Bing

Bing Webmaster Tools adds Domain Connect verification integration

April 20, 2020 news

Bing makes it easier to verify some sites with Bing Webmaster Tools. In order to make it easier for some webmasters to verify their web sites with Bing Webmaster Tools, Bing added support for verification through Domain Connect. This allows those using 1&1 IONOS, GoDaddy, Media Temple or Plesk easier access to verify their web sites with Bing Webmaster Tools. Verification methods. Bing now offers four verification methods; (1) XML file authentication, (2) Meta tag authentication, (3) Add a CNAME record to DNS and (4) this new Domain Connect verification. Here are instructions on these…

Marketing

The Disruption In Our Industry, It’s Manic, Says Ogilvy CEO

April 18, 2020 news

“The pace of change, the disruption in our industry, it’s manic,” says Ogilvy Global CEO John Seifert. “We’re all trying to get our arms around it. The hope I have for convening moments like Cannes is the clients and their partners in tech and creative communications and data start to come together and work harder as partners to design the models of the future.” John Seifert, Global CEO of Ogilvy, discusses how technology such as AI is disrupting the advertising industry in an interview on CNBC International on location in Cannes: The Disruption In Our Industry, It’s…

SEO

Adapting your SEO strategy to soften the impact of COVID-19 on organic traffic

April 17, 2020 news

Test and identify problem areas to better amplify your value proposition while staying relevant to the trends people are searching for. It’s no longer news that coronavirus has upended the way we live our day-to-day lives. Unprecedented unemployment rates, emptied shelves where toilet paper and Lysol wipes used to sit, an innumerable amount of people working from home – this has become our new reality. We know the ways it has impacted our lives personally, but how has consumer behavior and the way people search changed as a byproduct? What…

google

French antitrust decision sets the stage for Google to pay for news content in Europe

April 16, 2020 news

Google had sought to avoid paying copyright licensing fees by getting publishers to waive them in exchange for being included in search results. Google must pay to display news content in France. That’s the decision of French antitrust authorities, according a Bloomberg report on April 9. The antitrust regulator has given Google three months to work out a deal with French publishers. No pricing or licensing framework has yet been determined. Google told Bloomberg that it would comply with the decision and that the parties have already entered into negotiations. A significant…

SEM

The seven elements of a high-converting landing page

April 15, 2020 news

Landing pages can make or break your digital marketing. Learn how to create landing pages that convert. If you’re looking to gather leads for your business, you need to have a landing-page strategy. To see the greatest return on their investment, businesses need to build effective landing pages, then test and optimize them to maximize conversion rates. This guide from SharpSpring is written for any marketer looking to initiate or improve their landing page strategy. It will guide you through everything you need to know to allow you to create…

Mitchell Baker Becomes Mozilla’s CEO

April 14, 2020 news

Long-time chairwoman Mitchell Baker has officially taken the reigns as Mozilla’s next CEO. The organization’s previous CEO, Chris Beard, resigned at the end of 2019, leaving a vacancy in Mozilla’s leadership. Now, more than three months after Beard left, Baker is taking over the position. “I’m honored to become Mozilla’s CEO at this time. It’s a time of challenge on many levels, there’s no question about that,” Baker writes in a blog post. “Mozilla’s flagship product remains excellent, but the competition is stiff. The increasing vertical integration of internet experience remains a…

Bing

Bing adds snippet controls to help sites control their search result previews

April 10, 2020 news

Google began supporting these new controls last September and now Bing adds control for snippets. Bing announced Wednesday that it now supports new snippet controls with robots meta tags to help webmasters manage how their search results are displayed in Bing. These new controls work via robots meta tags in HTML or X-Robots-Tag tag in the HTTP Header. New meta tags to settings snippets. Here are the three new controls Bing offers: “max-snippet:[number]” — This lets you specify the maximum text-length, in characters, of a snippet in search results. Here is the…