Tag: New

February 22, 2017

The Trump administration’s pledge to retool the North American Free Trade Agreement has some small businesses drawing up a Plan B. To prepare for possible changes well ahead of any official action, options under consideration include cost-cutting moves, new tax […]

January 26, 2017

Facebook’s at it again. Just when you thought The Social Network had done all they could to duplicate Snapchat’s functions in their apps, they’re now looking to add a new Stories option within Facebook itself. Pretty amazing right? Amazing in […]

December 21, 2016

While last week Facebook built on Live’s video chops with the introduction of 360-degree video, this time around it’s paring down on the tech a bit with something a bit more old school: live audio. Relive the glory days of […]

December 15, 2016

Ever seen an awesome Instagram you want to save for later, only to have it fade into memory after myriads of new posts? That’s no longer a problem. Starting today, you’ll be able to save posts you’d like to revisit. […]

November 24, 2016

There’s always something new in the social media space. Even as we come into Thanksgiving weekend, the platforms continue to release updates and changes – mostly small, but then again, Instagram did release their new live-streaming functionality just this week. […]

October 7, 2016

After years of users asking for a revamp or increased capabilities, LinkedIn has finally done something about it. With the recent announcement of their Next Gen Career Pages, LinkedIn for Business now has an improved product which focuses on its core area – employer […]

October 4, 2016

As soon as you open up the Marketplace – there’s a new icon at the bottom of the Facebook app – you’ll see various photos of items people near you have listed. In case a random selection of people’s junk […]

September 30, 2016

Earlier this year, Facebook opened up their immersive Canvas ad format to all businesses. Canvas ads are virtually mini-websites hosted on Facebook, built to load quickly on mobile devices, making them particularly appealing for those struggling to improve their mobile […]

September 26, 2016

If you’re a social media marketer, or you’re simply trying to leverage social media for your own business, Google is one of the most important – and possibly most demanding – platforms to learn to use. There are simply so many options, […]

September 22, 2016

As social media becomes a bigger part of our wider business process, so too does the demand for better data tracking and improved transparency measures to provide definitive links between social ad spend and subsequent sales impact. Facebook’s taken a […]

September 19, 2016

Apple’s new iPhone 7 models introduce a new solid-state (non-mechanical) Home button which no longer physically depresses but instead is a software-driven sensor. That necessitates a new physical button sequence to hard-reset the device if it stops responding; that happens […]

September 14, 2016

Remember how, a few months back, Twitter announced a range of coming changes to their 140 character limit? You remember – it started out as speculation, which sparked a range of opinions about how removing the 140-character limit would kill […]

August 19, 2016

With the total time Instagram users spend watching video increasing 150% over the past six months, it makes sense for the platform to be putting more focus on video and looking at how to capitalize on that demand. Back in […]

July 28, 2016

Is your business “on the map?” Make sure it is, because maps-oriented user interfaces are becoming as important as the traditional hierarchical list-oriented interfaces (such as SERPs) we’ve grown used to in the past 20 years. Maps’ increased importance as […]

July 27, 2016

Amazon has teamed up with Wells Fargo Educational Financial Services to offer Amazon Prime Students a 0.5 percent discount on private student loan interest rates, Wells Fargo announced last week. Wells Fargo is the largest private student lender in the […]

June 1, 2016

Small businesses will now be able to measure things like reach as well as likes. For years, small and medium-size businesses have had as little insight about their Instagram posts as the average user. But soon, they’ll be able to […]

April 22, 2016

In June of last year, Facebook announced that it would start showing more content that mattered to you by factoring in the time you spent viewing a post — whether you actually clicked through to linked content, or not. Today, […]

April 15, 2016

Google’s giving you more control over how you sync Drive files to your PC: you no longer have to sync all of your cloud files. A new option in the Google Drive for Mac and PC apps lets you select only the […]

March 16, 2016

Image Credits: latimes.com For years, we have been trained to view web postings from our friends in a certain order. Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and […]

March 16, 2016

Image Credits: digitaltrends.com The latest update for Skype for Web gives users new capabilities including the ability to make calls to mobile phones, as well as landlines. Microsoft has also added notifications and the ability to watch YouTube videos from […]