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Apple fined over iPhone. Antitrust lawsuits against Facebook and Google. AI protein folding. Tech News Of The Week

Apple is in hot water again. And this time, it's actually over real water. Italian regulators have imposed a fine of 10 million euros, or about 12 million US dollars, on the company over the iPhone's water resistance, or lack thereof. The regulatory...

Alex · 01 December 2020 · 53

Pixel 5 and 4A 5G review: classic Google

Instead of two different sizes, in addition to two different sizes this year Google made two different phones, there's the $499 Pixel 4A 5G and the $699 Pixel 5, and I'm reviewing them together because even though they have different names they are v...

Den W. · 14 October 2020 · 67

Apple’s Reckoning Has Come. Epic Games vs Apple and Google

If you want to install an iPhone app, you must get it through the Apple App Store where Apple charges developers 30% on all digital purchases. Well, Epic Games thinks that's bunk. So in August, they sued both Apple, and Google for that matter, who al...

Alex · 16 September 2020 · 171 · 2

Android 11 review: the most important settings

When I first previewed the new features inside Android 11, I said that Android is a mature operating system. What that means is that unless some designer inside Google has a wild-eyed harebrained idea, things just aren't going to radically change tha...

Alex · 09 September 2020 · 49

Android Beyond Phones, chromeos.dev, Go 1.15, and more!

This is your weekly update on the coolest developer news from Google.  This summer the Android folks have been working on 11 Weeks of Android. And this week the talk was all about going beyond the phone to all of the different devices that Andr...

Alex · 22 August 2020 · 45

Are Google Chrome extensions safe?

One of the most useful things about modern web browsers is their support for extensions, whether it's automatically finding coupon codes. Cleaning up your experience on social media, auto-magically filling in passwords or blocking ads and cutting int...

Alex · 24 July 2020 · 64

Chrome is going to hide parts of URLs

Web browsing has changed a lot over the years. There's no more Home button, we browse with tabs instead of opening a new window every time, and a GeoCities page, with lots and lots of animated GIFs is no longer the pinnacle of cool. But one thing tha...

Alex · 08 July 2020 · 71

New privacy and security features in Android 11, AI Adoption Framework, new Flutter tools, & more!

And this is weekly update on the coolest developer news from Google. Google announced some new features focused on privacy and security in Android 11. One-time permissions let users give an app access to the device microphone, camera, or location ju...

Alex · 03 July 2020 · 101

Adobe XD support for Flutter, Architecture Framework, temporary closures with Places API, & more!

This is weekly update on the coolest developer news from Google. Adobe XD to Flutter plugin is now available as early access for broader public testing. Adobe XD is a UI/UX design and collaboration tool that helps teams create and share designs for...

Kelly · 3 years ago · 173

Syncing Google Sheets to a database via REST API’s

In this article, I will walk you through how to integrate a web-based ordering system with a Google Sheet.  Imagine you work for a bike-sharing startup that has a bike ordering web app built on Node.js. If you're familiar with JavaScript, Node.js is...

Alex · 3 years ago · 466

7 Google Ads Hacks That’ll Make Your Campaigns Scale Profitably

Google Ads are still one of the best platforms that you can use to grow your business. Primarily because it lets you reach the right people when they're looking for whatever it is that you're selling. When they're actively searching for keywords re...

Kelly · 16 April 2020 · 61 · 1

How Long Does SEO Take to Work For a New Website?

This is by far my most frequently asked question that I get, "Hey, my website is new and I'm still "not seeing a lot of visitors. "How long before I start seeing results from my SEO effort?" When you're putting all this time and effort into making...

Kelly · 31 March 2020 · 119

How to Rank Smaller Websites on Google in 2020

You see all these big sites dominating Google, but, we're not all big sites, we're not all billion-dollar companies. What happens if we have a small website with little to no backlinks, very little content? Is it even possible for us to get ranking...

Kelly · 30 March 2020 · 112

How Does Google Make Money? Google Business Model Explained

In this post I want to walk you through how Google makes their money. In other words, I'm going to explain Google's business model. Did you know that Google's parent company, Alphabet, in spite of owning several companies in many different indus...

Den W. · 29 March 2020 · 109

8 Things to Remove From Your Website Immediately If You Want to Rank on Google

There are things on your website that are sabotaging your Google rankings and traffic. No matter how much effort you put into writing content, optimize your technical SEO, building backlinks, they're going to keep you down. 1. Outdated content...

Kelly · 29 March 2020 · 70

How to Generate Leads When You Have Little to No Traffic

When you have a website that generates dozens and thousands of visitors a month, it's easy to generate leads. What happens if you have little to no traffic to your website? How do you generate leads? When you have a website that's just starting...

Alex · 29 March 2020 · 125