Image: Matt Smith/IDG Need a new monitor for your PC? I’ve combed through scores of options to find the best monitors on the market right now. These picks are the result of hundreds of hours spent testing the latest models from Acer, Asus, BenQ, Dell, LG, Samsung, and other major brands. While my favorite …
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TL;DR: Save hundreds per year with this $84.97 bundle of Adobe Acrobat Pro (three years) and Microsoft Office (lifetime). So, you’re tired of paying subscription fees for the software you know you’ll need every day? Stop and find a deal that can help you save. With our exclusive productivity app bundle, you can get three years of Adobe …
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Skip to content Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: StackSocial is partnering with Babbel this Black Friday! Use code LEARN at checkout to get a Babbel lifetime subscription for $159 for a limited time (MSRP $198.97). If you want to learn a new language but the thought of traditional language classes feels all too overwhelming, a language-learning app like Babbel may be your perfect solution. …
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Image: Unsplash Black Friday deals on Chromebooks have begun at Amazon, Best Buy, and other retailers the week before Thanksgiving — welcome to Amazon Black Week. I’ve collected the best Chromebook deals for PCWorld over the past several years (including Black Friday and Prime Day) and these are usually the best deals of the year. …
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Ask a dozen marketers, and some will say the customer journey has, in turn, collapsed, condensed, lengthened, looped, died and been born anew. What’s not up for debate is that it has fundamentally changed. That’s what Global CMO of Assembly Bria Bryant helped unpack when we met for a morning of shopping and shop talk. …
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By Krystal Scanlon and Seb Joseph • November 20, 2025 • Ivy Liu Marketers have grown fixed on a simple, stubborn question: what portion of their spend reaches the person making the content? What was once a direct handoff now threads through a growing constellation of agencies, platforms, networks, ad tech vendors and assorted brokers, …
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A series talking to C-suite executives about the strategies guiding their bottom lines. More from the series → The Atlantic has built a scorecard for AI crawlers, identifying which bots actually send readers back and which just strip content. Only those with value get through. This approach led it to block a single AI crawler …
Publishers don’t face small shifts in trends like other industries do. Instead, they’re weathering a relentless wave of changes: algorithm shifts, SEO overhauls, Google cookie deprecation, made-for-advertising sites, ad tech commoditization. Once, search traffic was a dependable faucet. Now, AI-powered zero-click summaries have rerouted that stream. Organic visits can drop 34% to 79% when AI …
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Nearly half of viewers power on their televisions without knowing what they’ll watch. This moment of openness represents valuable real estate in modern advertising. The home screen’s virtues go beyond size or prominence, due to the mindset it captures. It has evolved from a simple navigation tool into a critical decision point where discovery, intent …
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Mockup of book cover created by generative AI tool (image source: Canva AI Image Generator, 2025) Users of generative AI apps like Stable Diffusion may not fear legal prosecution. Nonetheless, in Japan, authorities believe a man instructed the software to replicate a protected image. Most accusations of copyright infringement target the authors of AI tools, …