Mountain View, California - Fat fingers have literally...burnt holes out of advertisers' mobile budgets. Well, how many times have you accidentally clicked on a mobile display ad, when you actually meant to hit the adjacent content on that tiny phone screen? With increasing number of touch screen devices over the past few years, mobile advertising has become a key marketing tool. Now, in order to avoid the untoward glitch, Google has launched a “confirmed clicks” attribute for all in-app image and banner ads on smartphones, in an effort to reduce the number of accidental clicks the ads attract.
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Mountain View, California -- It may not seem to be the most worthy of Google Maps features, but using NASA and NOAA's striking images of the Earth after dark imagery sure is pretty. Google announced today in a Google+ post that there is a new layer in Google Maps, which the web giant is now letting users explore Earth's far-reaching lands filled with flickering lights using imagery from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's “Black Marble.”
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Los Angeles -- Stepping up on a most contentious topic of the past, social networking giant Facebook is taking another swing by announcing a handful of privacy-related changes today after some users complained the system is confusing; hence now updated its privacy settings with shortcuts, an easily accessible Activity Log, and an update request and removal tool.
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New York - In a surprising turn of events, micro-blogging outfit Twitter announced Monday that it was stepping into the photo-sharing business with a new editing tool that will allow mobile photographers to enhance, crop and edit photos and apply photo filters to their snaps from within Twitter-built applications, as it continues to compete with social media photo sharing app Instagram.
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Los Angeles - With barely two weeks left for the festivity to begin, and just in time for some last-minute gift-giving season, Facebook has just rolled out its Gifts products to everyone in the U.S.
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Redmond, Washington - In a fresh move to prove its competence in the growing search market, software behemoth Microsoft's Bing early this week unleashed a feature called “Snapshot” that it hopes would help you find fast factoids about the celebrities or landmarks in your queries with an update that spits out relevant information at the center of your search. The newly imitated feature is considered to be Microsoft's response to Google's integration of Knowledge Graph with Search.
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Started with a concept to make women feel beautiful and provide luxury to them at affordable prices without them having to compromise on quality or service, Primp and Blow is delivering much more than what was promised. Let us see how Melodi Herman started this off and how is she managing the growing business of Primp and Blow.
Q: Kindly give our readers an introduction to your business. Please include what your business is all about, in which city you are located and if you have offices in multiple locations/ cities.
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San Francisco -- In a fresh move, Google owned popular video sharing network YouTube is rolling out a brand new look on its website that is designed to help make it easier for viewers to subscribe and watch channels on its site.
Apparently, part of this effort is the expansion of its Guide feature, which now reaches across multiple devices. The YouTube Guide, which helps you keep up with new videos from your subscribed channels and activity from friends, is now more prominent on the site as you browse through everything. That means there is a greater opportunity for you to click on stuff that you have already determined you liked. YouTube is also adding more opportunities for a person to subscribe to a channel with various subscription buttons.
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Mountain View, California -- In a surprising turn of events, search engine behemoth Google over the weekend has pulled the plug on its web-based office software, abruptly ending availability of a free version of its Google Apps online application suite for small businesses, including Gmail, as it aims to increase revenues outside its core web advertising business.
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