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Apple asks court to halt Google search monopoly case

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Apple asks court to halt Google search monopoly case Apple wants to ensure it has a voice in the remedies trial for the Justice Department’s search monopolization case against Google, and filed an emergency motion to stay the proceedings while it appeals the district court’s denial of its request to be more directly heard in the case. The remedies phase of the trial is

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Does your promotion increase conversions even w/o using discount?

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Does your promotion increase conversions even w/o using discount? We’ve found a great offer for our website. “Buy 4 get 15% off, But 6 get 20% off.” The strange thing we are starting to notice is that, while increasing our AOV slightly, we get a marked increase in conversions even among people not taking advantage of the offer. We haven’t quite reached enough testing to make this a 99% certainty, it definitely…

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How DeepSeek crashed the AI party

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How DeepSeek crashed the AI party The DeepSeek story contains multitudes. It’s a story about the stock market, whether there’s an AI bubble, and how important Nvidia has become to so many people’s financial future. It’s also a story about China, export controls, and American AI dominance. And then, somewhere in there, there’s a story about technology: about how a start…

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Trump’s first round of tariffs is almost here

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Trump’s first round of tariffs is almost here Electronics, avocados, vegetables, cars, tractors, crude oil — these are some of the things that could soon get more expensive for US consumers. Under President Donald Trump’s proposed plan, goods coming in from Mexico and Canada will be subject to a 25 percent tariff beginning on February 1st. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt ha…

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Sam Altman’s Stargate is science fiction

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Sam Altman’s Stargate is science fiction Stargate is a staggering power grab. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has spent the past year seeking an absurd amount of computing power to train the company’s AI models — one report says Japanese officials literally laughed at the amount of electricity he demanded. The stakes were clear: without massive computing resources, OpenAI risked losing groun…

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Dell is making everyone return to office, too

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Dell is making everyone return to office, too Dell is the latest tech company to announce it’s ending its hybrid and remote work policy. Starting March 3rd, Dell employees will have to show up in person five days a week. In an email obtained by Business Insider, CEO Michael Dell writes that “all hybrid and remote team members who live near a Dell

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TikTok traffic is recovering, but it’s still not back in app stores

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TikTok traffic is recovering, but it’s still not back in app stores TikTok’s traffic is almost back to normal despite its delayed return to US app stores, according to Cloudflare Radar data seen by CNBC. The “DNS traffic for TikTok-related domains” is around 10 percent lower than the levels before its abrupt shutdown, David Belson, Cloudflare’s head of data insight, told CNBC. To compare, TikTok’s traffic dipped…

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LPT: How to bypass Google AI Overview

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LPT: How to bypass Google AI Overview I think this may violate rule 6, I hope it doesn’t because this will help people avoid using AI by default when they do not want to. https://tenbluelinks.org/ provides details on how to default away from AI Overview results for Google search term. This has a work around for Firefox and Chrome Mac/Windows, Chrome iOS, Chrome Android. Edit: I thin…

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Charging sales tax

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Charging sales tax Do you only charge sales tax on customers from your state ? What about customers from other states or countries ? submitted by /u/Extra-Variation-6414

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Add to cart & conversions

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Add to cart & conversions Hi all. I am working with an ecommerce site who sells adult toys. I am in charge of their SEO/PPC/digital marketing. We have seen huge growth in the last month which is great, but are struggling with one thing. In the past 3 weeks, we have seen 20 ‘add to carts’ and only 1 conversion. They all started the checkout process, then abandoned cart….

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Ecommerce Founders (non-US). What are you doing for Business & Personal Tax?

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Ecommerce Founders (non-US). What are you doing for Business & Personal Tax? Hi everyone. I’ve been building in the tax space for a while now and after building a lot of custom tax solutions for high net-worth business owners. I realised that company owners who have their business primarily online and with clients in more than one country like Ecommerce owners are extremely flexible when it comes to how their business t…

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Quick sense-check: site problem or ad problem? (… or product problem)

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Quick sense-check: site problem or ad problem? (… or product problem) Hi guys! I’ve spent the last year building the product & infrastructure for a company that makes eco-friendly cribs for babies (UK based): https://www.alorababy.com/ We’ve just “opened shop” and I’ve started experimenting with Meta ads to drive our first traffic. I’ve spent only $120 so far, and am pausing to take stock. The ad KPIs look ok on t…

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Apple Intelligence Support for Eight Additional Languages Arriving April

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Apple Intelligence Support for Eight Additional Languages Arriving April Apple CEO Tim Cook announced during the company’s Q4 2024 earnings call that Apple Intelligence will soon support eight additional languages, including French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese. An update coming in April, likely as part of iOS 18.4, will also bring localized English support for users…

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Apple to Compensate Early Apple Watch Owners in Lawsuit Settlement

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Apple to Compensate Early Apple Watch Owners in Lawsuit Settlement Apple has reached a $20 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that certain early Apple Watch models suffered from a battery defect that caused screens to detach or crack (via CNET). Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the lawsuit accused Apple of manufacturing the original, Series 1,…

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CalDigit Launches Element 5 Hub With Thunderbolt 5

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CalDigit Launches Element 5 Hub With Thunderbolt 5 If you own one of Apple’s latest Mac mini or MacBook Pro models with M4 Pro and M4 Max processors, you may be interested to learn that CalDigit today announced its first Thunderbolt 5 product, the Element 5 Hub. The Element 5 Hub boasts nine ports, including four Thunderbolt 5 ports capable of up to 120Gb/s bandwidth, two USB-C ports at 10Gb/s,…

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