- Verizon's Newsroom To Use Blockchain For Full Transparency
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, November 2, 2020
The initiative -- a proof of concept built with MadNetwork's open-source blockchain technology in partnership with AdLedger and Huge, aims to provide credibility for corporate public releases. ...
- Three Years In, Prebid.org Takes On CTV-OTT
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, September 11, 2020
A just-formed CTV-OTT task force aims to address standards, as well as create more advanced programming tools for long-form video. ...
- Yext Takes On Milky Way Search Algorithm Update Leveraging BERT
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 27, 2020
Leveraging the natural-language processing search algorithm powering Yext Answers within Named Entity Recognition allows Yext Answers to better distinguish locations from other entities such as
people, jobs, and events. ...
- Google, Others Introduce Open-Source Commons To Manage Trademarks
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Open Usage Commons aims to provide education and give guidance around how to share trademarks in the same way a company might share patents and material with copyrights. Trademarks th ...
- Mailchimp Acquires Reaction Commerce
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Reaction Commerce offers open-source ecommerce software. Mailchimp says its customers had asked for additional ecommerce features. ...
- Verizon Media Launches COVID-19 Search Engine For Research
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 8, 2020
The COVID-19 search engine will help medical professionals and researchers find data without having to build their own search back-end technology. Verizon Media has used its Vespa technology to ind ...
- Adobe Campaign Adds AMP For Email
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 9, 2019
Adobe Campaign users can now send interactive emails and update them in real-time, the company says. ...
- Facebook Introduces Data Transfer Tool For Photos With Strict Privacy Standards
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 2, 2019
The data transfer tool will adhere to current and forthcoming privacy regulations and will roll out initially during the test phase in Ireland. If successful, it will become available worldwi ...
- Google Rolls Out Gmail AMP To Android And iOS
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, November 22, 2019
The move extends the interactivity of AMP to mobile devices, allowing users to take action within an email, the company says. ...
- Google Open-Sources Its Cardboard Augmented Reality Project
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, November 7, 2019
Google is allowing developers to create experiences for Android and iOS devices to entice them to build apps for its Cardboard augmented reality project, but will they provide Search experien ...
- Adobe Adds Commerce Tools To Magento, Cloud Services On Amazon And Microsoft
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Magento, the e-commerce platform aimed at SMBs, has begun to integrate with Adobe technology powered by Sensei. The technology collects data to personalize recommendations, among other features. ...
- Bing Adopts Google Chromium-Based Edge Browser
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, October 10, 2019
The move will result in less fragmentation of the web, especially for SEO professionals and web developers, and fewer SEO compatibility problems, wrote Fabrice Canel, principal program manager at Bin ...
- Alibaba, Baidu, Google, Microsoft, Others Back Confidential Computing Consortium
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 22, 2019
Alibaba, Baidu, Google Cloud, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and four other companies have formed a group to ensure the secure processing of data while it's in use. ...
- Microsoft's GitHub Restricts Use By Developers In U.S.-Sanctioned Countries
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 29, 2019
GitHub has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and other areas facing U.S. sanctions from accessing some code in the repository. ...
- U.S. Investigates Alphabet's Work With Chinese Government, No Concerns With Google
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday said he and President Donald Trump recently met with Google CEO Sundar Pichai to address billionaire investor Peter Thiel's concerns about Google working wi ...
- Acquia Acquires Mautic, Open-Source Marketing Automation Firm
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, May 13, 2019
The combining of the two platforms will facilitate one-to-one marketing via email and other channels, Acquia says. ...
- Microsoft Contributes To Google Chrome Open-Source Code As It Improves Edge
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 8, 2019
Microsoft on Monday officially released to developers the first test builds of its open-source Chromium-based project for its Edge browser on desktop for Windows 10. ...
- TensorFlow Helps Gmail Block 100 Million Spam Messages Per Day, Google Says
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, February 7, 2019
TensorFlow, Google's machine-learning framework, catches hard-to-find spam that slips through, the company says. Google is now experimenting with TensorFlow in other security-related areas within Gmail, including phishing and malware detect ...
- NPR Releases Open Source Podcast Analytics Tech
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Wednesday, December 12, 2018
RAD is an open source "method for sharing listening metrics from podcast applications straight back to publishers, with extreme care and respect for user privacy," NPR notes. ...
- Google Invests $22 Million In KaiOS Running On Nokia Mobile Phone
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 28, 2018
The companies will collaborate to make Google Assistant, Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Search available to users running KaiOS, a Linux-based mobile operating system. These apps are being developed specifical ...
- No Ads For GitHub
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, June 8, 2018
Nat Friedman, the incoming CEO of GitHub, the company Microsoft just purchased, told developers that the site will not run ads. Friedman held a Reddit Ask Me Anything in ho ...
- Microsoft Reportedly Acquires GitHub
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, June 3, 2018
Reports out on Sunday suggest that Microsoft has acquired web-based hosting and code repository service GitHub. Bloomberg reports that the deal could be announced as early as Monday. Apple, Amazo ...
- Microsoft Confirms GitHub $7.5B Acquisition, Expands Its Developer Network
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, June 4, 2018
The deal, expected to close at the end of 2018, will see Microsoft bring its tools and services to even more developers, including those who build out artificial intelligence a ...
- Is Google AMP The End Of Email As We Know It?
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 23, 2018
Marketers wonder: Will AMP revolutionize email marketing or simply upend it? ...
- SparkPost Offers Free Email Coding Tool
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, October 26, 2017
SparkPost has released a free email coding tool called HEML. ...
- Open Up! Making The Case For Open Sourcing
MAD, Martin Albrecht - Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Clients do not care about the logos on the business cards of their agencies as long as they are the best and they work together. This is why Sir Mart ...
- Baidu Acquires Maker Of Chatbot Engine, Demonstrates AI Capabilities
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 5, 2017
The AI announcements, demonstrated at Baidu's developer event in Beijing Wednesday, include the acquisition of Seattle-based Kitt.ai. ...
- PubMatic Extends Prebid.js With Hybrid Client- and Server-Side Wrapper
Real-Time Daily, Tobi Elkin - Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Aiming to help publishers improve monetization, PubMatic expanded upon open-source container script Prebid.js. The company said OpenWrap, its hybrid client- and server-side wrapper, will help publishers future-proof their ad decisioni ...
- Ad-Tech Firms To Form Open-Source Initiative To Address Transparency Issues
Real-Time Daily, Tobi Elkin - Friday, May 19, 2017
A group of ad-tech firms including Rubicon Project will launch an open-source initiative intended to address many of the challenges surrounding transparency in programmatic media in the coming weeks. Rubic ...
- Microsoft To Open Source A Key Piece Of Its Search Engine Bing
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Microsoft engineers are working to open source key parts of its search engine Bing. Three important pieces are listed on the developers' Web site GitHub: BitFunnel, NativeJIT, and Workbench. ...