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Smartwatches are gaining recognition in the world of Swiss watches. Less of a puffed-up stepchild by now, the smartwatch represents a new horizon in the luxury watch landscape. By combining the functionality of a smartwatch with the visual allure of a mechanical timepiece, the TAG Heuer Connected elevates the concept of the sports smartwatch to a digital luxury experience. TAG …

If you’ve identified any suspicious or low-quality backlinks you believe might result in Google taking a manual action, then perhaps you can try disavowing those links. When Google launched the disavow tool, there was lots of discussion about whether people should use the disavow tool even Google hadn’t taken a manual action against their sites. There were people making blacklists …

Facebook beat Wall Street estimates in Q4 but slowing profit growth beat up the share price. Facebook reached 2.5 billion monthly users, up 2%, from 2.45 billion in Q3 2019 when it grew 1.65%, and it now has 1.66 billion daily active users, up 2.4% from 1.62 billion last quarter when it grew 2%. Facebook brought in $21.08 billion in …

Facebook has had its ups and downs when it comes to marketing. It was the first social media platform to launch ads, and it has since become a benchmark for how other social sites run their ad algorithms. Of course, it hasn’t been without its controversies. The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, recently announced plans to reduce the impact of ads on user …

Apple may have written a check and signed a deal with Qualcomm in order to ensure a 5G iPhone wasn’t late to market, but it’s clear the Cupertino hardware giant wasn’t interested in burying the hatchet too deep. Apple is in “advanced talks” to buy Intel’s smartphone modem business for “$1 billion or more,” according to a new report in …

According to a reliable source, ‘Motion Mode,’ which allows users to take high quality action shots, will be one of the Google Pixel 4’s headline camera features. The new smartphone from Google will also tout improvements to the renowned Night Sight mode… First up is so-called Motion Mode, yet another feature bringing the Pixel lineup closer in functionality to much …

From today Firefox users who update to the latest version of the browser will find a pro-privacy setting flipped for them on desktop and Android smartphones, assuming they didn’t already have the anti-tracking cookie feature enabled. Mozilla  launched the Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) feature in June as a default setting for new users — but leaving existing Firefox users’ settings unchanged at that point. It’s now finishing what …

Details have surfaced about one of the potentially key features of the next Apple Watch — sleep tracking. Bloomberg originally reported that Apple has been working on a sleep-tracking feature, and 9to5mac now details how the implementation could work. The new feature would work on the next Apple Watch. The new device could be unveiled at Apple’s iPhone event next …

Apple Inc. is readying a clutch of new hardware for the coming weeks and months, including “Pro” iPhones, upgrades to iPads and its largest laptop in years. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant is planning to announce three new iPhones at an event next month, according to people familiar with the situation. The handsets will likely go on sale in September, contributing to fiscal fourth-quarter sales. …

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Smartphone sales are down. Again. After years of growth, the smartphone market’s recent slide has continued into the second quarter of 2019, per numbers from analyst group, Gartner. At 1.7% year over year, it’s not a huge slice of the overall pie, but it does point to a continued problem for manufacturers, …