MLB Rumors: The Texas Rangers are “likely out” on Josh Donaldson, according to Levi Weaver on Twitter, who says that Donaldson’s price has exceeded the Rangers’ comfort level. Donaldson, 34, had a great bounce-back season for Atlanta in 2019, and was generally seen as getting a deal in the 3 year, $75 million range. With…
In the span of just over 24 hours, the 49ers went from the top seed in the NFC looking towards a 1st round bye and homefield advantage to the #5 seed with the potential of facing the Dallas Cowboys on the road for their 1st playoff game. The 49ers dropped a close game against the…
Ohio StateUpdated Dec 12, 2019;Posted Dec 11, 2019 TNSOhio State receiver Jameson Williams (6) outruns Miami of Ohio defensive back Ja’don Rucker-Furlow (24) for a touchdown during the Buckeyes’ 76-5 victory at Ohio Stadium on Saturday, September 21, 2019.COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State football’s Jameson Williams is arguably the fastest player in the Buckeyes’ wide…
Billboard has announced that YouTube streams will be factored into the Billboard 200 albums chart starting early next year. Video streams from other platforms will also count, including Apple, Spotify, Tidal, and Vevo, and Billboard says the change will also impact genre album consumption charts, like country, Latin, and others. Billboard’s charts have historically been…
Courtesy of Comparably Career site Comparably released its annual ranking of the 50 best companies for people of color.Non-white workers took an in-house survey that inquired about pay equity, support from leadership, and company culture.Major companies featured on the list include Facebook, Google, Starbucks, and Adobe.Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.While employers still struggle…
Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top 10 ‘Best Places To Work’ List (bloomberg.com) Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @08:30PM from the top-ten-lists dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Big tech companies like Facebook and Alphabet’s Google, long seen as some of the world’s most desirable workplaces offering countless perks…
Southwest Airlines is one of the best places to work in 2020. Glassdoor Job site Glassdoor released their annual ranking of the best companies to work for, based on employee reviews.Major tech companies like Microsoft and Google, plus smaller Silicon Valley firms like HubSpot and DocuSign, rank high on the list. Grocery chain Trader Joe’s and…
Google has game developers in mind with three new features just added to the Google Maps Platform. The company says the ten mobile games that currently employ the platform have been very successful, with nine million daily active users (DAU) in the last month. New features will improve graphics performance for some Maps tasks, as…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – For a night in Louisville, it felt like old times. And maybe, it was a tipoff to some pretty good new times.Before Tuesday night’s game against No. 4 Michigan, Louisville coach Chris Mack was told by a friend here in town that he was going to be introduced to the Louisville…
How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results (msn.com) Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday November 16, 2019 @11:34AM from the I’m-feeling-unlucky dept. Long-time Slashdot reader walterbyrd shared this report on “arguably the most powerful lines of computer code in the global economy,” the Google algorithms that handle 3.8 million queries every single…
David Wasson | 5 days ago Survive and advance. And if you can’t advance, at least survive another week.Tuesday night was a literal referendum on Alabama football. Perhaps you missed it in the weekly comings and goings of the 500-channel cable television smorgasbord, but a group of 12 men and 1 woman got together and…
Consumers expect connected shopping experiences from research to purchase. But their journeys aren’t linear; they move around, visiting—and revisiting—multiple sites and apps, multiple times a day. This makes it challenging for businesses to deliver a coordinated site experience, especially if they are running an experiment or personalization on their site. How do they make sure that…
Is it the web page that’s slow or is it your network connection? In the future, Google’s Chrome web browser may have an answer for you. Google announced today a plan to identify and label websites that typically load slowly by way of clear badging. The company says it may later choose to identify sites…
Podcast: DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSFor episode 170 of The Search Engine Journal Show, I had the opportunity to interview Garrett Mehrguth, CEO at Directive, enterprise search marketing agency.Mehrguth talks about the importance of focusing on your brand being discoverable for SEO and challenges some of the traditional sales funnel models.Why is focusing specifically…
Julian Shapiro Contributor Julian Shapiro is the founder of BellCurve.com, the growth marketing team that trains startups in advanced growth, helps you hire senior growth marketers, and finds you vetted growth agencies. He also writes at Julian.com. More posts by this contributor We’ve aggregated the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month,…
Google search is advancing a reading grade.Google says it has enhanced its search-ranking system with software called BERT, or Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers to its friends. It was developed in the company’s artificial intelligence labs and announced last fall, breaking records on reading comprehension questions that researchers use to test AI software.Pandu Nayak, Google’s…
Google employees have accused their employer of creating a surveillance tool disguised as a calendar extension designed to monitor gatherings of more than 100 people, a signal that those employees may be planning protests or discussing union organizing. Google parent company Alphabet “categorically” denies the accusation. The accusation, outlined in a memo obtained by Bloomberg…
Global app revenue continues to climb, thanks to the growth in mobile gaming and the subscription economy. In the third quarter of 2019, consumer revenue grew 22.9% year-over-year from $17.9 billion to reach an estimated $21.9 billion across both the App Store and Google Play worldwide, according to new data from Sensor Tower. Notably, the…
