PPC / SEM Tips for Franchises: A Guide for Google Ads

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If you’re running a franchise, keeping your brand consistent while still letting each location shine is the lifeblood of your business. That’s where franchise pay-per-click (PPC) advertising can help.

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Rockstar have stayed mum on GTA 6 multiplayer, but they might be hedging their bets with a new GTA Online heist that boasts a "unique new level of replayability"

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Some players fleeing GTA Online's Kortz Center heist on dirt bikes.
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Multiplayer crime sandbox and massive money sink GTA Online is getting its first new heist mission in a little while next week, with balaclavas set to be donned on July 14th. The target of this shady op's is the art gallery dubbed the Kortz Center, which you might remember as the setting for that one Merryweather-battling mission with Michael and Trevor in GTA 5's main story.

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Trump Says Iran Peace Talks Will Continue Despite Latest Strikes—Repeats Ceasefire Is ‘Over’

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The U.S. and Iran will continue peace talks even as the two sides have escalated strikes against each other this week, President Donald Trump said Friday, signaling a willingness to negotiate as both countries have struggled to find meaningful progress since a “memorandum of understanding” was signed last month.

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After ‘Tokenmaxxing’, Token Spend Has Become The New Metric To Watch

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As Tokenmaxxing is on its way out, companies are becoming more cautious over token spend.

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Token consumption is under fire once again. Just last week, Palantir CEO Alex Karp made headlines for calling out the token consumption model of Anthropic and OpenAI during an interview with CNBC.

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Amazon UK Just Opened Invite-Only Lottery Requests for Elusive Pokémon TCG ETBs and Booster Bundles, Giving Fans a Rare Chance to Secure Them at RRP

Some wild invites have just appeared on Amazon UK for some highly sought-after Pokémon TCG goodies. You can sign up to buy Chaos Rising and Phantasmal Flames Elite Trainer Boxes, as well as the glimmering Scarlet & Violet—Prismatic Evolutions Booster Bundle.

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SK Hynix Surges 17% In Record-Setting U.S. Debut: Here’s What Regular Investors Should Know

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South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix surged in its Nasdaq debut on Friday, after completing the largest U.S. share sale ever by a foreign company and becoming the third-largest debut on record following SpaceX’s record-setting listing last month.

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Council Post: AI Agents: Secure Like Software, Manage Like Employees And Budget Like Human CapEx

Priya Sawant leads ASAPP’s engineering team, delivering enterprise AI at scale.

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​Imagine a CTO walks into a weekly ops review and finds three different teams have deployed AI agents. One was purchased through IT and rolled out across engineering to automate pull request reviews, but no one has defined standards or operating practices. Another is running as a product pilot, funded by engineering but still waiting on IT to establish access controls. A third has been operating under a corporate card with little visibility.

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Asus ZenBook A16 review

The Snapdragon X2 is clearly a really good CPU, but until someone can staple a better GPU to it, or slide it into a handheld where it could really shine, it only makes a mediocre gaming laptop.

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Stephen Curry, Jason Kelce & More Stars Head to Tahoe for American Century Championship 2026

Larry David, Colin Jost, Miles Teller, Stephen Curry, Jason Kelce and Charles Barkley are just a few of the stars competing in this year’s American Century Championship — the annual celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course.

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As national drought deepens, a new AI model helps balance water demands

As national drought deepens, a new AI model helps balance water demands
Dan Sobien (at left), Feras Batarseh (at right), and graduate students tour a water facility. Credit: Noah Frank for Virginia Tech

As drought strains water supplies across much of the United States, Virginia Tech researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to help policymakers manage growing competition between agriculture and semiconductor manufacturing. Feras Batarseh, associate professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering and the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative and the project's lead researcher, said the recent explosion of AI queries via language learning models and the increased need for chip production are increasing pressure on already-strained water systems in many parts of the country.

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