Category: News

July 25, 2022

The long predicted on-shoring trend is starting to show in mergers and acquisitions. Accenture will acquire Eclipse Automation. Eclipse provides customized manufacturing automation and robotics solutions from its headquarters in Cambridge. Financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed. “Technology, data […]

July 15, 2022

When you are leading a race, tracking your No. 2 competitor is important, but it is often more important to know who is creeping up from behind the pack. For a few years now, many marketers identified Instagram as TikTok’s […]

July 12, 2022

This doesn’t look great for TikTok, which is already under scrutiny in several regions. Today, TikTok has confirmed that it has suspended a planned change to its privacy policy relating to the use of user insights for targeted advertising, amid […]

July 7, 2022

The trend toward consolidation and growth plans in cloud-based companies is continuing. The trend is now seeing international moves coupled with the usual appointments following acquisition. Airties, a provider of cloud-based managed Wi-Fi solutions has appointed Tony Ball as the […]

July 5, 2022

Working remotely just got even more convenient. Zonetail Inc. has partnered with booking platform ROAR. Zonetail is a mobile platform provider for residents and guests of high-rise residential buildings while ROAR is a booking and payment platform. The partnership will […]

June 30, 2022

Watch the weather B2B folks! There is lots of cloud-based activity. Accenture will acquire Ottawa-based XtremeEDA under undisclosed conditions. XtremeEDA provides semiconductor engineering services. The acquisition of XtremeEDA will expand Accenture Cloud First’s capabilities. “We believe silicon engineering has enormous […]

June 29, 2022

Instagram has announced the next stage of its #BlackVisionaries funding program, which, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum, will see Instagram allocate $650,000 in grants to Black artists, Black designers and Black-owned small businesses. As explained by Instagram: “For the […]

June 20, 2022

Twitter has announced that it’s holding its ‘Innovators’ agency awards program once again in 2022, which celebrates best-in-class media planning and promotions among its global agency partners. Originally launched in 2019, Twitter’s Innovators Awards provide an opportunity to showcase the […]

June 13, 2022

Amid ongoing debate around the impact of misinformation shared online, and the role that social media, in particular, plays in the spread of false narratives, a new anti-disinformation push in Europe could play a big role in improving detection and […]

June 10, 2022

Apple just launched new App Store Review guidelines in time with its Worldwide Developer Conference. The update sees the loosening of certain restrictions that app developers must meet before publishing on the App Store. It comes as somewhat of a […]

May 27, 2022

So as the fifth week of the Elon Musk Twitter takeover drama comes to a close, let’s just check in on how things are progressing. Oh, it’s bad. Nothing good to see here. This week, as Musk maintains that his […]

May 17, 2022

Vintners.co launched its digital marketplace for all things related to craft wineries yesterday. The B2B platform debut follows its announcement at the Rule of Thirds event in Brooklyn, NY. There, vintners, wine importers, and professional wine buyers gathered to learn […]

May 12, 2022

Today’s Holodeck Media merger with Arslanian Media Group may have created the first integrated metaverse, gaming, and crypto media company. Arslanian’s collection of crypto content, ranging from podcasts and newsletters to 60-second market updates and long-form educational content, will become part […]

May 5, 2022

So what’s the latest on Elon Musk’s great Twitter takeover? It’s been reasonably quiet on the Elon front this week, but in the background, Musk has been busy shoring up investment, in order to fund his $44 billion takeover bid […]

May 3, 2022

eBay will award $10,000 grants to 50 small retailers in the US for business needs such as physical and digital store improvements, new equipment and inventory, technology, hiring and training to support their success. The initiative is part of eBay’s […]

May 2, 2022

Marking National Small Business Week, which is being held this week (May 1st to 7th) in the US, Google has today announced a new scholarship program to help businesses acquire advanced digital marketing knowledge, as well as a new certificate […]

April 29, 2022

Despite worries about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, inflation hitting a multi-decade high and an unexpected slowdown in the U.S. economy, Mastercard Chief Executive Michael Miebach on Thursday struck an optimistic note about the card company’s prospects, given a pick-up in […]

April 22, 2022

PayPal CEO Dan Schulman snared a 37% increase in total compensation last year even as the digital payments company cut its revenue expectations and abandoned a previous growth goal. Schulman’s total pay package, including salary and stock awards, jumped to […]

April 16, 2022

There have long been suspicions that a fair amount of unproductive activity occurs in workplaces under the well-meaning but often flawed guise of collaboration. Now we have surveys and studies to support that. It isn’t just meetings that get in […]

April 15, 2022

Last year I needed an extravagant sports jacket for an event I was attending. The jacket needed to be gold. At any rate I decided to do what any logical consumer would do — search for “gold sports jacket” on […]