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Hootsuite lays off nearly a third of its workforce as CEO tries to ‘refocus’
TechCrunch
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Social media marketing firm Hootsuite says it has slashed its workforce by 30%. “We need to refocus our strategies to drive efficiency, growth and financial sustainability,” CEO Tom Keiser said in a s...
Yoast SEO 19.5 update causes fatal errors
Search Engine Journal
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Publishers who updated to Yoast SEO 19.5 may have experienced more than they expected. Reports of fatal errors caused by the update soon began surfacing. Interestingly, the error appears confined to s...
New report shows trends in teen social media usage in 2022
Pew Research Center
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The landscape of social media is ever-changing, especially among teens who often are on the leading edge of this space. A new Pew Research Center survey of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 finds TikTo...
How Facebook’s AI bot explains the decline of the news industry
Nieman Lab
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On Friday, Facebook1 unveiled a new experiment: a conversational AI named BlenderBot 3. Facebook says it can “can search the internet to talk about nearly any topic.” Indeed, past AIs have been easily...
Bounty raises $4.7M to help TikTokers make money from reviews
TechCrunch
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Bounty, an online service that helps TikTok creators monetize brand reviews and recommendations, announced today it closed on a $4.7 million seed round led by early-stage consumer tech VC firm M13. Th...