• Google Ads Reminds Advertisers Some Ad Customizers Will Go Away May 31st

    On August 31, 2021, Google notified advertisers it would drop support for expanded text ads for responsive search ads. Google is now reminding advertisers that Ad customizers for text ads, expanded text ads and Dynamic Search Ads will stop serving after May 31, 2024.As a reminder, Google launched ad customizers a decade ago, in 2014. The reminder email was posted by Navah Hopkins who posted a screenshot of it on LinkedIn, the email says:Reminder: Ad customizers for text ads, expanded text ads...

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    Amazon job scams on the rise

    These sites are not run by Amazon. You should be very careful of any website that guarantees you money for testing products.

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    Amazon job scams on the rise

    These sites are not run by Amazon. You should be very careful of any website that guarantees you money for testing products.

  • US dollar exchange rate rises in Baghdad, Erbil

    The US dollar exchange rate against the Iraqi dinar rose in Baghdad and

  • Economist: Tens of billions of dollars in forest products are being overlooked

    Are we missing the forest for the trees? More than timber grows in forests — including products worth many tens of billions of dollars. Because these goods go unrecorded in

  • Economist: Tens of billions of dollars in forest products are being overlooked

    In the Roman Empire, custom taxes on spices, black pepper in particular, accounted for up to a third of the empire's annual income. During the late Middle Ages, European efforts to cut out middlemen and monopolize the spice trade led to colonization in Asia. Historically, non-timber forest products have frequently played a key role in the global economy.

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    Canada announces billions of dollars in military equipment upgrades

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. A big update from the federal government about the future of the Canadian military, as billions of dollars in new spending on upgrades to equipment like submarines was announced. But Monday’s long-awaited defence policy update does not include a plan to reach NATO’s spending target, something our allies have had issue with for years. The federal […]

  • France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’

    Coalition of civil society groups says Paris should return harsh reparations imposed on Caribbean state two hundred years agoFrance should repay billions of dollars to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in return for recognising the island’s independence, according to a coalition of civil society groups that is launching a new push for reparations.The Caribbean island state became the first in the region to win its independence in 1804 after a revolt by enslaved...

  • No billion-dollar Powerball ticket bought in Ohio, but some big winners

    As discovered earlier Sunday — after a three-hour delay — somebody finally won the Powerball jackpot.

  • NBC has cleared over $1 billion in ad sales for 2024 Summer Olympics

    NBC’s ad sales for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are doing quite well, roughly three months out from the games. On a conference call Tuesday, NBC’s Dan Lovinger said the network has sold $1.2 billion in advertising for the Paris games and is on pace for record revenue for an Olympics. Notably, $350 million

  • Amazon’s Fallout review: it gets the postapocalyptic vibes exactly right

    In making successful video game adaptations, it feels more important to strike the right tone rather than follow the source material to the letter. “Tone” in Fallout is Walton Goggins’ whiskey-soaked cowboy drawl ripped straight from the age of Gary Cooper and John Wayne extolling the virtues of bucolic Vault-Tec living with a sign that says “Test Subjects” just a touch off-screen. In other words: perfection. [Image:...

  • Giving Ukraine Russia's seized billions would sound death knell for dollar

    Confidence in Western financial markets has already been shaken enough by the 20% devaluation of the dollar over the last few years. But now the European Commission wants to hand Ukraine $300 billion seized from Russia. Doing so likely would sound the death knell for the dollar and eventually the euro.