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The “Ultimate Google Ads Training 2022: Profit with Pay Per Click” course will demonstrate how to increase the pay-per-click profitability of your digital ads. And though there are lots of courses on how to create mobile apps and games, they mostly focus on design and coding. “Mobile App Marketing Using Google Ads” will teach you how actually make money from them. In “Google Analytics”, you’ll learn how to use this powerful free tool to measure how effective your marketing campaigns are, which will help you to make better decisions about your business....

The Lenovo Legion typically retails for $1,599, and the sale knocks $390 off the price, bringing it down to $1,199, or 24% off. It’s a great deal for a laptop that comes with the latest Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 6GB graphics card. Plus, coupled with the 11th Generation Intel Core i5-11400H Processor, any gamer that wants portability will get speedy gameplay since it boosts up to 4.5GHz with Turbo Boost....

That’s less a hypothetical question and more a reality for IndyCar driver Pippa Mann, who could have taken the easy road and chosen a career much “safer” than the male-dominated sport of professional racing. Mann’s professional passion pulses through the phone as she brings me up to speed on how she knew she was destined for life in the fast lane. Mann was born in London and knew from an early age she wanted to race....

Most outside the tech industry will be unaware that Linux has reached such a milestone, even though the project has had a huge impact on everything from smartphones to cloud computing. Torvalds poked fun at that lack of recognition in his usual Sunday release note for a new stable version of the Linux kernel. “So I realize you must all still be busy with all the galas and fancy balls and all the other 30th anniversary events, but at some point you must be getting tired of the constant glitz, the fireworks, and the champagne,” he said....

A recent survey of 860 developers by OutSystems finds a majority of low-code users – most of whom also use traditional coding languages alongside low-code – report that they are “very satisfied” with their team productivity (59%), compared to 41% of traditional developers. Most low-coders, 57%, are also very satisfied with the quality of tools at their disposal to complete their work, compared to 36% of their traditional coding counterparts....

Research conducted by professional services firm NTT Data and research group Oxford Economics found that executives continue to put the satisfaction of their clients well above the people who work for them. While two-thirds (66%) of businesses and IT leaders say that customer, patient, and constituent satisfaction is a priority, only 16% cite employee retention and engagement. At the same time, one-third of leaders believe culture is not a primary component of employee satisfaction, and only 5% claim employees factor into strategic and operational decision-making processes....

The world opened up more in 2022 and the data shows that people enjoyed getting out on trails and participating in events with others. There were 101% more activities uploaded outside of an athlete’s home country, compared with the previous year. Review: Hyperice Normatec 3 Legs: Recharge like a pro athlete Congratulations to all of those new marathoners, as the Strava data shows there were nearly double the number of people completing a marathon in 2022 as there were in 2021....

Microsoft has more than 180,000 employees in more than 100 countries, representing an increase of 46.5% since 2017. The numbers only cover Microsoft’s core workforce and do not include the employees of LinkedIn and GitHub. Women make up 29.7% of Microsoft’s current workforce and the company’s racial make up is 48.6% white and 35.4% Asian. Microsoft said the Hispanic and Latinx representation grew 0.5% percentage points to 7% of the US workforce while the Black workforce is now at 5....

The AltspaceVR social networking platform will be sunset on March 10. The announcement came days after Microsoft announced 10,000 layoffs and changes to its “hardware portfolio”. Microsoft acquired the VR company for an undisclosed sum just months after AltspaceVR planned to shut down due to financial difficulties. Microsoft acquired AltspaceVR at a time it was promoting Windows 10-powered HoloLens and tethered mixed reality headsets from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung....

The news comes days after more than 70 Ukrainian government websites were defaced by groups allegedly associated with Russian secret services. But Microsoft said it “has not found any notable associations” between the malware it found and the website attacks that occurred last week. “MSTIC assesses that the malware, which is designed to look like ransomware but lacking a ransom recovery mechanism, is intended to be destructive and designed to render targeted devices inoperable rather than to obtain a ransom,” Microsoft explained....

Microsoft reports LinkedIn revenues as part of its Productivity and Business Processes segment, which also includes Office 365 and Dynamics 365. That segment contributed $14.7 billion total to Microsoft’s Q4 FY21 revenues of $46.2 billion. Some, but not all, LinkedIn revenues are counted by Microsoft as part of its Commercial Cloud category. Microsoft has a number of other businesses that make $10 billion annually, but gaming, security and now LinkedIn are the three newest members of this list....

Microsoft “will take additional steps as this situation continues to evolve,” Smith said in his post.

Two years after it bought LinkedIn, Microsoft bought Glint, makers of employee-management software, in 2018 for an undisclosed amount. Glint’s tools were designed to help executives obtain an internal view of employee engagement and skills and to make suggestions based on that information. Glint has been part of the LinkedIn business at Microsoft since Microsoft bought it. Microsoft officials said existing Glint customers will continue to get service and support from LinkedIn for the time being....

Those products worked well with the Apple iPhone 11 Pro and launched as a Kickstarter campaign. Peak Design now has a full collection of mounts and accessories for Apple (iPhone 11, 12, and 13), Samsung (S21 and S22), and Google (Pixel 6 and 6 Pro) smartphones in its Mobile by Peak Design collection. We used seven items from the Mobile by Peak Design collection with the iPhone 13 Pro Max and even after testing out other mobile products, we keep coming back to the Peak Design offerings....

First reported by CNN, the partnership will see Moody’s invest $250 million in BitSight, and the cybersecurity company will acquire Moody’s cyber risk ratings venture VisibleRisk, which they created with global venture group Team8. In a statement, Moody’s CEO Rob Fauber said organizations need a way to accurately measure and quantify cyber risk and exposure as they continue to invest in cyber defense and resilience. “Creating transparency and enabling trust is at the core of Moody’s mission – to help organizations assess complex, interconnected risks and make more informed decisions,” Fauber said....

The open-sourced Log4j scanner is derived from scanners created by other members of the open source community, and it is designed to help organizations identify potentially vulnerable web services affected by the Log4j vulnerabilities. CISA said it modified a Log4J scanner created by security company FullHunt and got help from other researchers like Philipp Klaus and Moritz Bechler. The repository provides a scanning solution for CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046. CISA said it supports DNS callback for vulnerability discovery and validation while providing fuzzing for HTTP POST Data parameters, fuzzing for JSON data parameters, and support for lists of URLs....

Twitter had previously claimed that fake or spam accounts made up fewer than 5% of its monetisable daily active users during the first quarter – an estimate questioned by Musk. First reported by Bloomberg, the Tesla CEO on Monday told the All-In Summit in Miami that if the bot and spam issue proves to be worse than indicated by Twitter, a deal at a lower price point would potentially be tabled....

Update: Dying stars, clouds on exoplanets: What the James Webb Space Telescope revealsJoe Biden shares the deepest infrared image of the universe ever taken “This is farther than humanity has ever looked before,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently said, calling the telescope and its images “nothing short of a real scientific feat.” While NASA was slated to release the images on Tuesday, President Joe Biden was honoured to share the first image on Monday at the White House....

Singtel-subsidiary and systems integrator NCS said Friday the Eighty20 acquisition would bolster support for customers Down Under in their digital transformation efforts, offering services that spanned cloud, workplace modernisation, and business applications. A Microsoft Gold Partner, Eighty20’s portfolio included Azure cloud deployment and application modernisation. Its customer base encompassed the likes of Woolworths, TPG, and New South Wales Department of Education. The acquisition followed three others NCS announced last month that included another Australian cloud services vendor, Riley, which service offerings were specialised on Google platforms and comprised cloud-native transformation, data supply chain, and cloud operations....