Twitter has announced Super Follows which allows charging for tweets, and for followers to get access to additional content.

Australia passes a world-first law to make Google and Facebook pay for news content on their platforms.

Firefox 86 now released extends Picture-in-Picture to multiple PIP, and, now offers Total Cookie Protection in Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) Strict Mode.

Both sides adjusted their positions and have come to an agreement that will see news content return to Facebook in Australia and a payment system with individual news publishers.

Those of you following the news of the new Code Bill in Australia will be aware of the big tech taking a stance against the proposals.

Google has said passage ranking is now live in the U.S. for English language queries, with other countries and languages to roll out later.

From new taxes on Google Ads to attempts at taxing the app stores, Google had a rough week.

You may want to audit your accounts and keep an even more watchful eye on your search queries and negative list.

Report: Twitter is building a subscription product to ease its dependence on advertising.

Make sure you update right away.

Google has launched News Showcase in Australia.

WebmasterWorld’s monthly look at Google’s SERPs changes.

UNR has decided to auction off 23 of its TLDs.

This is rolling out today in English and in the U.S., on desktop, mobile web, and Google App on Android.

Described as one of the most disruptive and significant botnets of the past 10 years, EMOTET, was was taken down in a coordinated global action.

With the arrival of Firefox 85, it now protects against supercookies.

A new initiative launched this week from Open Collective, a coalition project between Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Coil, W3C, Samsung and Igalia.

Twitter is introducing Birdwatch , a pilot program in the U.S. which is a community-based approach to help address the spread of misinformation.

Google readies tests to eliminate third-party cookies by replacing them with viable privacy-first alternatives.

The Federal Trade Commission is taking legal action against three ticket brokers...

The Brave browser has said V1.19 will now support IPFS.

Established on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is, without doubt, a significant resource.

Facebook Inc. and Facebook Ireland file legal action in Portugal against two people for scraping user-profiles and other data from Facebook’s website.

Google now sending notifications to site owners it’s crawling their site over HTTP 2.

If you’ve not already updated, it’s probably worth gritting your teeth and running the update.

WebmasterWorld’s monthly look at Google’s SERPs changes.

Facebook is starting to roll out a redesign for Pages with a new look and feel,

Wikimedia Foundation is finalizing a uniform code of conduct across all versions of Wikipedia.

The pros and cons of creating and maintaining AMP pages.

Researchers have discovered a hardcoded admin-level backddoor on Zyxel firewalls, access point controllers and and VPN gateways.

Welcome 2021, which I hope will be a happy and peaceful time for us all.

Request Indexing’ tool is now back.

Independent digital ad buyers are getting locked out of accounts they manage.

From 10 March 2021 publishers will no longer be able to create link ad units.

New York Attorney General Letitia James today filed a lawsuit against Facebook Inc.

WordPress has released V 5.6, and Twenty Twenty One canvas theme for the block editor.

Google’s secret general purpose operating system, Fuchsia, is now being released to public open source.

Google has announced on Twitter that an update will be coming later today. During the holidays - during a pandemic.