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Google Boss To Testify Before Congress As Opposition To China Plan Grows
Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, plans to testify before before the House Judiciary Committee this week, and there should be plenty to talk about. Pichai is slated to testify Dec. 5, making the Google chief the latest in a line of Silicon Valley stars hauled before...
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Facebook Follies: PR Pratfalls At Social Network Continue
Social media giant Facebook continues to collect public relations troubles, as the company's handling of Russian election hacking and cavalier attitude toward people's private information continues to spiral. Most recently, a New York Times investigation went into...
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Unless your business is website management, you need an expert to maximize your online impact. That's where Dependable Website Management comes in. We make it our business to help your business succeed online, and nobody does it better. That's why our clients...
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Seven Of The Best Outdoor Audio Speakers For Parkland, Florida
The best part about living in South Florida -- especially Parkland -- aside from the warm weather and sunshine is being able to enjoy the warm weather and sunshine all year around with friends and family. Being a fun and entertaining host of parties is more than just...
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SEO Experts Give Solid Advice
You can have the greatest website in the world. But if no one knows about it, it won't do your business much good. That's why SEO is so important. Here are a few tips from some of the top experts in the field. Optimize for customers You'll want to make sure that, once...
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Facebook Boss Zuckerberg: Unelected, Unaccountable And Irreplaceable
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, has become one of the most powerful people on the planet. But even when he talks about things like radically changing his company's business model, very few people think of removing the Facebook boss. Zuckerberg said on...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Torches Social Media, Search Firms Over Data
Apple CEO Tim Cook has launched a devastating critique of social media and search companies and their data collection practices. The Apple boss in a speech last week said the huge amounts of personal data collected by social media and other tech companies is harming...
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Did Social Media Giant Overhype Video Demand
A group of small advertisers is suing Facebook, claiming the social media giant overstated the demand for video on its site. For the advertisers, what matters is whether the social media company was shooting straight about the metrics they used to decide how they...
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Facebook Data Breach Woes Continue
A lousy year for Facebook just keeps getting more miserable. Last week, further new emerged about a data breach endangering millions of users' personal information. The social network said 30 million accounts had been compromised, down from an earlier estimate of 50...
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Social Media Troubles Prompt ‘Internet Bill Of Rights’
The consistent problems of social media and other major internet players have prompted Democrats in Congress to draft an Internet Bill of Rights some are promising to push for if they gain the majority in the House of Representatives after this fall's midterm...
read moreThese Social Media Management Tips Can Help You Succeed
With the rise of ever more platforms and the time people devote to it, it's clear that social media management has never been more important. But effective social media management takes effort. And that can sometimes be difficult for business people. These tips can...
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Facebook Abandons Direct Support For Political Advertisers
Social media and advertising giant Facebook will scale back on sending employees to give a hand to political advertisers, something the company did with the Trump campaign in 2016. The company will still give political campaigns and advocacy groups technical support,...
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Facebook Boss Zuckerberg Lays Out Plan To Fight Election Meddling
With the midterm elections weeks away, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg writes that his company is better prepared to combat meddling by foreign powers. Zuckerberg's post, which runs in excess of 3,000 words, follows intense criticism of Facebook for its failure to combat...
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Will Europe Save Creators From Google, Facebook?
The European Union's Parliament is poised to vote on a controversial copyright law that critics say could squash free speech as practiced on YouTube and Facebooks and that proponents say would curtail the decades-long theft of creative property by tech firms like...
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President Donald Trump complained recently that Google's algorithms are biased against conservatives. Trump's complaints, which grew to include Facebook over the course of the past week, echo those made by other conservatives. The president added to conservative...
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Social Media Giants Strike Back At Foreign Fake News Purveyors
Facebook and YouTube cracked down last week on an Iranian and Russian misinformation efforts last week as social media companies step up the fight against fake accounts. According to the Wall Street Journal, YouTube eliminated dozens of accounts pushing misinformation...
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Patrick Zarrelli Shares on Dependable Website Management
The CEO and founder of Dependable Website Management and of the Print Killer Media Network wanted to talk about a whole host of topics ranging from web development & publishing to boat parade awards & charitable donations. He had a lot of interesting things to offer....
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Feds Hit Facebook Over Enabling Housing Discrimination
Housing Secretary Ben Carson has joined lawyers from the Justice Department and others accusing Facebook of enabling discrimination by landlords using the company's advertising tools. Carson's action follows two years of investigation and could lead to a federal...
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Has Social Media Hit Its Ceiling?
Numbers coming out of social media companies have some asking whether we have reached peak social. Snap, the company behind Snapchat, recently announced it had lost 3 million daily active users. It was the first time since the company's Initial Public Offering that it...
read moreFacebook Starts Testing Dating Service
Social media giant Facebook has long been expected to get into the dating game. That outcome is drawing closer. The company has started internal testing of the feature. According to TechCrunch: The feature will be based inside Facebook’s main app, alongside its many...
read moreWall Street Smacks Social Media Companies Around
Wall Street severely punished social media giants Facebook and Twitter after the two companies revealed slowing growth and increasing security costs. Facebook disappointed the Street with its second-quarter earnings, and warned that spending on security and privacy...
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These Website Management Tips Can Help You Build Business
A solid website management strategy can help you take your business to the next level. But making sure you're on-target takes work and knowledge. The professionals at Dependable Website Management are your first stop for getting the help you need. But there are some...
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Know Your Branding Purpose To Up Your Social Media Management Game
If you want to succeed at social media management, first you need to know the messages you want to send about your brand. That may seem obvious. But marketers and other business executives often lose site of the importance of message and think if their strategy isn't...
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Best for Less: Dumpster Rentals & All Junk Removal Service
Sometimes life calls for a service that will help you get rid of the unwanted things in your home that are either too much to deal with, too heavy to remove or carry, or you would just rather have someone else do it. This is where Best for Less in the Palm Beaches...
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Another Week, Another Facebook Social Media Management Fail
The dominant social media network pretty regularly runs into embarrassment when it comes to social media management. Last week was no exception. On the week of the July 4 holiday, Facebook flagged as hate speech and removed a passage from the Declaration of...
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Facebook Tries To Up Social Media Management By Hiring Humans
Facebook, plagued by one revelation after another of people gaming its platform through black hat social media management, has brought on board a team of experts to spot vulnerabilities before bad actors can exploit them. BuzzFeed broke the news last week that...
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These Social Media Management Tips Can Help Build Sales
The bottom line on successful social media management is sometimes what it adds to the financial bottom line. Sales isn't necessarily the whole game. Social media can also be used to build brand awareness and keep in contact with customers. But without sales, those...
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SSL Certificates Are Now More Important Than Ever
Dependable Website Management wants you to know that one should make sure that their website has its SSL Certificate. This is more important than ever before. There have been some new changes to the internet, specifically to what is known as an "SSL Certificate". You...
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Social Media Management Twist: Facebook’s Popularity With Teens Fades
It's been coming for a while. But a recent report makes it official. Teens no longer rate Facebook among their favorites. And that's something to account for in social media management. According to a Pew Research report, teens aged 13-17 prefer Snapchat, YouTube and...
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Social Media Management Update: Facebook To Dump Trending News
In a change to its social media management, Facebook is putting an end to its troubled Trending module. Alex Hardiman, head of news products for Facebook, announced the change next week, writing: We’re removing Trending soon to make way for future news experiences on...
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Patrick Zarrelli Proud of His Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade Awards
Patrick Zarrelli, the CEO of Dependable Website Management and The Print Killer Media Network has been attending The Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade in Fort Lauderdale for years. He knows that it is a great charitable network and does a lot of good for Fort...
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Sites Scramble To Adapt Website Management To New European Law
In the absence of a meaningful U.S. protections to Internet users' privacy, the European Union has stepped in, and companies are scrambling to make sure their website management practices comply. The G.D.P.R., which regulates how companies can collect and used user...
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Website Management Could Be Altered By Net Neutrality Battles
The fate of net neutrality is far from settled, and whatever happens could affect website management by altering the Internet landscape. The Senate last week voted to reverse a Federal Communications order that would put an end to net neutrality, allowing Internet...
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