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Ecommerce Growth Shifts To Apps And AI From Websites

Ecommerce Growth Shifts To Apps And AI From Websites by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, September 19, 2025 Apps win loyalty, marketplaces dominate, and specialty brands win consumer choices, according to data released earlier this week. Similarweb released its Global State of Ecommerce 2025 report demonstrating how consumer habits are changing from websites to apps … Continue reading Ecommerce Growth Shifts To Apps And AI From Websites

Pro Chinese cybercrime group manipulates SEO to boost gambling websites

Pro Chinese cybercrime group manipulates SEO to boost gambling websites Rachael Davies ESET researchers have uncovered a professional Chinese cybercrime group that’s manipulating SEO to boost traffic to gambling websites. Nicknamed GhostRedirector by cybersecurity software company ESET, the bad actor is believed to have compromised at least 65 Windows servers located mainly in Brazil, Thailand, … Continue reading Pro Chinese cybercrime group manipulates SEO to boost gambling websites

Brand Websites See Less Traffic, Reddit And Wikipedia Lead ChatGPT Citations

Brand Websites See Less Traffic, Reddit And Wikipedia Lead ChatGPT Citations by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, August 21, 2025 OpenAI continues to experiment with presenting the most critical information and sources first, as the company weighs the impact of citation on publishers and websites. It’s a shift toward sites that provide answers to queries. … Continue reading Brand Websites See Less Traffic, Reddit And Wikipedia Lead ChatGPT Citations

AI Digs Deep To Surface Content, Makes Websites Conversational

AI Digs Deep To Surface Content, Makes Websites Conversational by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, July 1, 2025 Startups have sparked debate on whether websites will survive the transition to artificial intelligence (AI).  AI will not render websites obsolete, but the technology can transform them into conversational experiences to support the next phase of advertising … Continue reading AI Digs Deep To Surface Content, Makes Websites Conversational

CVS, Anthem, other big corporations remove executive photos from their websites after UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting

Days after Brian Thompson was gunned down in New York, the leadership webpages for a number of insurance companies have been edited to hide personal information. BY Jennifer Mattson For a third day, police searched for the suspect in what they are calling a “brazen, targeted,” and “premeditated” attack on UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was … Continue reading CVS, Anthem, other big corporations remove executive photos from their websites after UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting

Websites accuse AI startup Anthropic of bypassing their anti-scraping rules and protocol

Websites accuse AI startup Anthropic of bypassing their anti-scraping rules and protocol iFixit and Freelancer said Anthropic’s bot aggressively crawled their websites. mariella moon   Sat, Jul 27, 2024   Anthropic Freelancer has accused Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude large language models, of ignoring its “do not crawl” robots.txt protocol to scrape its … Continue reading Websites accuse AI startup Anthropic of bypassing their anti-scraping rules and protocol

Amazon Expands Sponsored Products Ads To Pinterest, BuzzFeed, Other Websites, Apps

Amazon Expands Sponsored Products Ads To Pinterest, BuzzFeed, Others by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, August 17, 2023 Amazon is making a move to have ads appear of its owned-and-operated sites. The company’s display ads that serve-up on search results pages will now do the same on third-party websites including Pinterest, BuzzFeed and Hearst Newspapers. The ads … Continue reading Amazon Expands Sponsored Products Ads To Pinterest, BuzzFeed, Other Websites, Apps