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Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: Replace your Adobe Acrobat monthly subscription with PDF Agile now that a lifetime subscription is only $40. Adobe Acrobat isn’t the only reliable PDF editor around anymore, and its newest competitor doesn’t charge a monthly fee. Instead of paying for Acrobat indefinitely, now you can get PDF Agile for life on sale for $39.99 (reg. $119). With …

A popular new PDF editor is now only $40 for life (reg. $119) Read More »

Image: Redragon Alrighty folks, this is as cheap as I’ve seen a new OLED monitor in several months — even on Prime Day 2 (what I like to call Amazon Boogaloo), none of them got below the $450 mark. Today you can get a Redragon 27-inch, 1440p OLED monitor for just $409.99 from Amazon’s closeout …

Woot has a 27-inch OLED gaming monitor for just $410 Read More »

The ad dollars are nice but the real prize for Amazon is the infrastructure itself – the rails on which the entire system runs.  Up until now that’s been the quiet part of its ad strategy. Moving forward it’s saying it out loud. The company is launching a managed cloud network built specifically to handle …

Amazon’s next frontier in advertising: the cloud infrastructure it runs on Read More »

By now, it’s hard to ignore where OpenAI is headed. The executive hints, the ad world hires, the burn rate that would make tech CEO blush – all signs point to advertising. This week’s launch of its long-rumored browser only reinforces that view. Digiday traces the steps that brought the company to this inevitable moment.  …

From hatred to hiring: OpenAI’s advertising change of heart Read More »

This Media Briefing covers the latest in media trends for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → This week’s Media Briefing looks at how publishers are laying the rails for agent-led buying. We look beyond the hype at the reality of what agents are …

Media Briefing: Step by step, publishers are building toward an agent-led ad business Read More »

ChatGPT is sending more shoppers to e-commerce sites, but most aren’t buying. A new working paper from researchers at the University of Hamburg and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management finds that referral traffic from ChatGPT converts far worse than traditional marketing channels such as Google Search, email and affiliate links. The paper, authored by Maximilian …

E-commerce sites see low sales from ChatGPT traffic, new study finds Read More »

Aruna Ravichandran leads marketing for Webex at Cisco with a 99% remote team, less than 1% attrition and what she calls “maniacal execution.” We caught up with her at the recent Webex One convention in San Diego to learn about her philosophy on thriving in the AI era and how she sees the future of …

‘Strategy without execution is hallucination’: Cisco’s Aruna Ravichandran on AI and work Read More »

A screengrab of Palworld running on PC (image source: Steam Community) Pocketpair’s newly launched publishing arm has taken a hard stance on generative AI, saying it will not back games that rely on it, Web3, or NFTs, with communications director John Buckley telling Game Developer: “We don’t believe in it.” Palworld’s studio, Pocketpair, has recently …

Palworld’s publisher Pocketpair on games leveraging generative AI and NFTs: “We don’t believe in it” Read More »

Likewise, the Osmo Mobile 7P and Osmo Mobile 8 are exactly the same size at 190 x 95 x 46 mm when folded and 288 x 107 x 96 mm unfolded. On top of that, the Osmo Mobile 8 retains the 3,350 mAh (12.06 Wh) battery as the Osmo Mobile 7P, with a 10-hour official …

DJI Osmo Mobile 8 previewed in early release before global launch Read More »

The Honor Power smartphone (Image source: Honor) The upcoming Honor Power 2 could redefine smartphone endurance. Leaked details suggest a 10,000 mAh battery paired with MediaTek’s next-gen Dimensity 8500 processor, all packed into a surprisingly slim 8 mm chassis. Honor is rumoured to be prepping an endurance king in the upcoming Honor Power 2. According …

Honor Power 2 leak reveals massive 10,000 mAh battery and MediaTek Dimensity 8500 chip in ultra-thin 8 mm build Read More »