HawkEye 360, the global leader in signals intelligence data and analytics, announced that Michael Turner has joined the company as Chief Legal Officer, effective December 2025. Turner brings more than 25 years of legal, executive, and public company leadership experience across defense technology and other venture-backed growth companies. In conjunction with the appointment, Dennis Burnett […]

Veratad Technologies, a global leader in secure age and identity verification solutions, announced a significant expansion of its IDMaxSM reusable digital identity credentials network through a new partnership with Trinsic. This strategic integration enhances Veratad’s industry-leading identity orchestration platform, Veratad VX, by enabling access to over 1 billion more digital IDs through Trinsic’s ecosystem of trusted, third-party ID providers. […]

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Google Shopping is updating its promotions policy to now allow for promotions on subscription fees and abbreviations. This was updated as of this month, January 2026.

Google seems to have a bug that prevents searchers from leaving hotel reviews directly in the Google Search desktop interface. It works fine within Google Maps and Hotel search interfaces but not in the web search interface.

Microsoft Advertising has expanded the number of search themes it allows to 50 search themes for Performance Max campaigns. This should be live now but Microsoft will announce it sometime this week.

I am seeing signs of a possible Google search ranking update or volatility around January 12, 2026. This is weird in that most of the tools, not all, are mostly calm, but the chatter has picked up and many SEOs are noticing ranking fluctuations.

It is now official, Google confirmed it has entered “into a multi-year collaboration" with Apple to power Apple Intelligence features and Siri with Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology.