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DECEMBER 17, 2020

shoppers are planning to buy online,” Archana Kannan, group product manager of shopping for Google, said in a blog post on Thursday (Dec. They can also browse Google Shopping and the Discover feed to get an idea of how others like the products and shades. “With the holidays right around the corner, more than 73 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

In a blog post , YouTube said it is rolling out YouTube TV to 95 markets starting Wednesday (Jan. The rest of the markets will follow shortly after that, noted YouTube in the blog post. YouTube announced Wednesday (Jan. That covers 98 percent of households in the U.S.

Advertising 46

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MARCH 4, 2019

In a blog post , the company said that over the past year, it has been combining visual search and shopping to make it easy to buy products on Pinterest and for brands to reach people in need of inspiration. . Pinners are looking for inspiration, and brands help make that inspiration a reality,” the company said in the blog post.

Retail 62

Retail 62

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

In a blog post , the company said that in order to expand its business and reach more consumers, it is always looking at popular checkout options that are resonating with buyers. “By Giving customers a familiar way to pay can lessen abandoned eCommerce carts and increase sales for your business,” Shopify wrote in the blog post.

eCommerce 69

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2018

In a blog post , Workplace said the goal is to help nonprofits and educational institutions create change around the world. Now we’re matching their commitment to doing good with our own,” said Workplace in the blog.

Nonprofit 49

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

According to a report in Reuters , citing a blog post by Twitter , the social media company said it discovered the traffic to a customer support forum while looking into a security hole that makes user data, such as phone country codes, accessible to hackers. Twitter said it fixed that security vulnerability on Nov.

Securities 59

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The feature is available through just-added stickers in Instagram Stories and tags in a person’s feed, and can be set with details like the date and product details. . Streetwear company Chinatown Market President Dan Altmann said the new feature is an intuitive way to do business. .

eCommerce 40

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

The Guardian reported that Google plans to create a web experience that matches what’s been the mainstay for its apps and devices since 2012: the personalized interest- and news-based feed, powered by Google’s advanced machine learning algorithms. The new feed launched in the U.S.

Technology 41

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The feature is available through just-added stickers in Instagram Stories and tags in a person’s feed, and can be set with details like the date and product details. Through the service, users of Amazon Prime could put photos on a feed that was similar to Instagram that had a built-in click-to-purchase functionality.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2018

that let users pay to “boost” their listings to more people through the News Feed. We recently started to expand Marketplace to include businesses, so people can browse products and services from people in their local communities, as well as from businesses,” the company wrote in a blog post at the time.

Advertising 56

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Your News Update utilizes the search giant’s algorithms and user data to create a news feed for individuals, based on their interests. Google has announced the launch of Your News Update, a new feature for Google Assistant. “At Google, we saw an opportunity to help move digital audio forward by focusing on audio news.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

In a blog post , Facebook said that this gives businesses the opportunity to place an ad in the area of Messenger below recent conversations, similar to how Facebook notifies users when a friend is active on Messenger. Facebook announced Thursday (Jan.

Advertising 46

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Jedox Finance

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In our previous blog post “ Proven AI solutions for modern planning “, we shared detailed insights from Dr. Rolf Gegenmantel, our Chief Marketing & Product Officer, into data management and data integration as a basis for advanced analytics and automated sales forecasts at Mitsui Chemicals Europe.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2018

“Like many technologies with multiple uses, facial recognition merits careful consideration to ensure its use is aligned with our principles and values, and avoids abuse and harmful outcomes,” Kent Walker, senior vice president of global affairs, wrote in a blog post. Google ultimately decided not to renew the contract.

Technology 60

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

The feature allows consumers to share store links as well as posts that they find in their news feeds, Venture Beat reported. To potentially help shoppers discover and exchange gift ideas, Facebook is letting its users share collections on its social media platform.

Communication 49

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2016

“Google Shopping ads will give our sellers a complementary way to target shoppers off of the Etsy marketplace at key moments when they are searching for items on Google,” wrote Maxwell Tang, a product manager on Etsy’s seller services team, in a blog post.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Like most innovators, Arielle Charnas was looking to solve a problem when she launched her fashion blog – it just wasn’t a fashion problem. Charnas, based on a tip from her sister, decided to start a fashion blog in 2009. The fashion blog, on the other hand, not only lasted, but grew. The relationship did not last.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Google is rolling out an overhauled Discover feed on google.com for Android and iOS devices. In a blog post, Assaf Broitman, product manager of Google Images, said that starting Thursday (October 25) when a user sees something in an image and wants to know more, they can use Lens to get more information about the image.

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MARCH 19, 2019

PayPal said its full-stack processing platform, called PayPal for Partners, “allows Instagram to manage the end-to-end commerce experience for buyers and sellers,” according to a blog post from PayPal EVP and COO Bill Ready. Busy consumers attached to their smartphones are used to scrolling past thousands of product images per day.

eCommerce 84

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

How Spend Tools Feed Food Banks’ Need For Accountability (Bento for Business Spend Management Playbook). The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is among the nonprofits working to feed local communities this holiday season is the which provides food services to 190 towns as well as cities in the eastern Massachusetts region.

Accounts Payable 51

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JUNE 15, 2017

In a blog post , Facebook said that with the addition of fundraisers to Safety Check, following a crisis people can raise money and request financial help. The note will appear in the News Feed that is automatically generated when people mark themselves as safe.

Education 43

Education 43

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Updates is a feed of stories, trending nearby spots. Delivered by Google Cloud and our ecosystem of partners, 1:1 Engagement for Retail helps retailers create hyper-personalization at scale,” Google said on its official blog. Saved makes favorite locations more accessible, and Contribute makes it quicker to share places and reviews.

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MARCH 31, 2020

Based on your responses, Alexa will provide CDC guidance given your risk level and symptoms,” Amazon posted on its blog this weekend. Google has also, like Amazon and Siri, beefed up its COVID-19 news feed with a host of more recent and topical videos and articles available attached to the question, “What is the latest on the coronavirus?”.

Entertainment 66

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APRIL 16, 2018

The news comes as Facebook has adjusted its policies and practices — including limiting third-party access to a user’s social network and adjusting its News Feed algorithms to prioritize user-generated content over ads — to prevent some of the bad behaviors that compromised user data without the company’s knowledge.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

The wild card here is the amount of small businesses that feed the revenue of ad words and social platforms. The social network said in a blog post that it has ‘seen a weakening in our ads business in countries taking aggressive actions to reduce the spread of Covid-19.’ Facebook’s disclosure was on the vague side.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2017

From pioneering the infinite social News Feed to breaking down consumers’ psychological barriers around privacy to driving politics and news (and fake news), there’s no denying that Facebook has transformed the virtual world, for better or for worse. The physical world? Not so much, though not for lack of trying. Quite possibly.

Technology 40

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Creative CFP

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The resulting efficiencies materialise in timely, relevant and accurate management reporting: Automated, real time bank feeds to replace manually captured of bank statements, Digital sign off of invoicing and expenditure, Electronic logbooks, Automated prompts to signal required action for individual and team tasks.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In an angler phishing attack, a fake customer support account promises to help customers but instead attempts to steal credentials,” Proofpoint staff explained in a blog post. “The attack technique takes its name from the anglerfish, which uses a glowing lure to entice and attack smaller prey.

Accounting 40

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Jedox Finance

APRIL 30, 2020

In our first post in this blog series, we discussed the benefits of automating Sales Performance Management (SPM) and the related challenges. Jedox comes with a built-in ETL functionality (no third-party tool needed) making it super easy to bring in the data from multiple sources – through a data feed or with a direct real time connection.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Forums and blogs devoted to Amazon marketplace sellers were quiet as of late Friday (Feb. Costs and fees, of course, are an ongoing concern of marketplace sellers, and those forums and blogs had multiple complaints and questions about what Amazon charges. Seller Concerns.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

25), according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk via his Twitter feed. Coca Cola’s ‘ New Coke ’ disaster back in 1985 still draws attention, while Amazon’s more recent failure with the ‘ Fire Phone ’ is still fresh in our memories,” writes entrepreneur Neil Patel in a blog post.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Simply said, contextual commerce occurs when a consumer sees a product on a smart device or social media feed (and even a recommendation from a friend) and buys the product. Retailers, then, can make the sale in the moment — with the help of contextual commerce. One billion devices are now supported by Google Assistant.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

In a company blog post , Amazon’s Jeff Blankenburg wrote, “The new Device Address API enables skills to request and access the configured address in the customer’s device settings. The other is the inventory feeds retailers who buy ads send Google.).

Manufacturing 53

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Of course there are many non-financial considerations, but for this blog we’re focusing on adding up the costs.). Such ad hoc analysis can take many different directions, so being able to really quickly build new views into the data and feed the insights back into the assumptions is critical.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In big data and analytics, as indicated last week in a company blog post , Facebook now has over 1 million apps, websites and bots using Facebook Analytics for Apps as a means to better understand, measure and optimize their products and services.

Numbers 40

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2017

“CMOs are spending 300 billion a year – text and blogs, spend on video, spend on video and picture. “If we feed you a song by a band you don’t like – the user is going to have a lousy experience. .” And while the concept has been well-established in real-world shopping, Yasuda noted, Feed.FM

Retail 48

Retail Marketing 48

Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Of course there are many non-financial considerations, but for this blog we’re focusing on adding up the costs.). Such ad hoc analysis can take many different directions, so being able to really quickly build new views into the data and feed the insights back into the assumptions is critical.

Planning 52

Planning Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Forecasting Math 52