Tag: Platform development

March 23, 2016

Loft springs into Instagram commerce with celebrity-supported shoppable outfits Ann Inc.’s Loft is driving sales of its spring apparel line by collaborating with actress Busy Philipps on a series of humorous videos, with several snippets appearing on the retailer’s Instagram […]

March 18, 2016

“Apple has introduced a new ad format for sponsored posts that will appear in users’ news feeds alongside articles in the Apple News app,” reports Business Insider. “The company revealed the new ad format in a developer-specification document for Apple’s […]

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 […]

March 8, 2016

If there’s one thing we learned in 2015, it’s that in 2016 marketers are increasingly moving away from a “Mad Men” advertising era to a digital marketing age focused on the customer experience and journey. So what strategies, technologies, and […]

February 26, 2016

Nordstrom, a longtime leader in customer service in-store, is learning how expensive a merged channel strategy is. But as it fights its way through new costs, it is illustrating the changing nature of retail itself. What is the cost of […]

February 9, 2016

Verizon Communications Inc has given Tim Armstrong, chief executive officer of its AOL unit, a leading role in exploring a possible bid for Yahoo Inc’s assets, Bloomberg reported, citing a person with knowledge of the situation. Verizon, the largest U.S. […]

February 5, 2016

Image Credits: developer.salesforce.com Online CRM vendor Salesforce has enhanced the field service and several other capabilities across its platform, reconfigured its packaging, and raised prices. It has also added Accenture as a cloud CRM customer. Salesforce (CRM) announced price increases, a […]

February 2, 2016

Image Credits: tizenexperts.com How long will it take before IT organizations are tasked with enabling and securing smartwatches? Good Technology and AirWatch, two enterprise mobility management companies, are already preparing their respective platforms for such demands. Two enterprise mobility management […]

January 26, 2016

The year is off to a quick start, and the industry has already seen many noteworthy developments within the social media and social commerce channels. Given the social landscape is constantly evolving, it’s important for all brands to identify trends, […]

January 20, 2016

According to an announcement shared this week with MMW, the team at Pinterest and SparkPost have teamed up for the purpose of personalizing email campaigns. SparkPost, a cloud email service provider, says that Pinterest is integrating with SparkPost Elite as […]

December 28, 2015

There are a number of choices out there if you’re considering building direct sales from your website. Opening an online store is one of the fastest and arguably one of the best options that entrepreneurs have for launching a start-up. […]

December 22, 2015

AdClarity by BIScience, a global leader in cross-channel programmatic ad intelligence, has just introduced online video ad intelligence to its portfolio. The tech scans more than 500,000 global publishers and video platforms on a daily basis. “The launch of this […]

December 17, 2015

Google is always tinkering with its mobile apps and pushes out updates to at least a half dozen of them each week. But in recent days Google has launched some especially interesting and useful features to core apps Google Inbox, […]

December 15, 2015

It’s been a good year for Facebook with the number of business pages jumping by more than 10 million since April 2015, and is now at 50 million. Facebook pages have had the ability to send and receive messages for […]

December 15, 2015

They may be only months old, but these startups changed technology in 2015. Take live-streaming app Periscope. It was acquired before even launching to the public, then capped off the year being named Apple’s iPhone app of the year. Meanwhile, […]

December 10, 2015

Perhaps the most underrated social media and content discovery sites we’ve found for attracting traffic for our own site and our clients is StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon has over 30 million users. StumbleUpon offers both an organic user experience as well as […]

December 8, 2015

Recently AOL announced that Alto now offers advanced mobile email apps for iOS and Android. “A game changer for users who live on their smartphones and don’t want to use multiple apps to stay organized, Alto simplifies how users manage […]

December 7, 2015

Google Ventures will close the year with $2.4bn of investment under management in many of the companies we all use every single day. From Uber to Medium, Product Hunt to TuneIn, Google has via its independent investment arm put funding behind or […]

December 3, 2015

Whenever a new technology is introduced, a new practice emerges, or research changes thought leadership, people often look at the information like it’s a blueprint. The veritable “Word of God.” The reality is that many emerging trends may not apply […]