Tag Archives: Efforts

Snapchat’s Reportedly Seeking to Cull Over 1,200 Jobs as A part of its Broader Value-Reducing Efforts

The horror run continues for Snap, with the company reportedly set to lay off around 20% of its workforce as it seeks to drastically cut costs amid worsening market conditions. As reported by The Verge, Snap’s planning to cull more than 1,200 full-time roles as part of a major restructure aimed at getting its business […]

Meta Outlines Evolving Efforts to Fight Mass Reporting and ‘Brigading’ in Newest Threat Report

Meta has published its latest Adversarial Threat Reportwhich looks at all the malicious and scam networks that it detected and took action against in Q2 2022. And much of it is as we’ve come to expect – Meta removed two clusters of hacker groups operating in South East Asia, as well as a troll farm […]

Google Maps 2021 Spam Efforts Embrace 100 Million Fraudulent & Abusive Blocks

Google announced its 2021 Google Maps and Google Business Profile spam fighting efforts, like it did for the 2020 year. Google said it blocked more than 100 million Business Profile edits and protected over 100 thousand businesses from suspicious activity and abuse attempts. Google has been trying hard to portray a better image for its […]

Dad doubles the worth of his home with DIY efforts and saves £75,000 in tradesmen charges

A homeowner has told of how he has managed to double the value of his property with his remarkable DIY efforts – saving himself £75,000 on tradesmen fees. NHS-worker Alex Dodman says he has built himself a dream home by watching how-to videos on YouTube. The 36-year-old secured a secret, trendy fold-down bed for his […]

Twilio Expands Regionalization and Schrems II Efforts

First published to the Twilio blog on February 25, 2021. Visit the original post here. Transfers of EU personal data to the US and other third countries have long been an area of concern for privacy-conscious EU customers and EU data protection authorities. On July 16, 2020, these concerns came to the fore again when […]

Google’s efforts to search out an integrative language in search

Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt had two special guests on their podcast show this week to talk about how Google is tackling inclusive language in search – a topic we’ll briefly cover only covered over here once. The short version of this 30-minute podcast is that Google search automatically processes including language, as it […]

YouTube’s Testing a New ‘Search Insights’ Tool to Assist Information Your Content Efforts

YouTube is working on a new Insights function for YouTube Studio which provides information about what users are looking for in the app, both in relation to your channel and your content specifically as well as for more general searches. Each element can be very valuable in your content planning. The new feature called “Search […]