Walmart is shuttering Jet.com as it embraces an omnichannel strategy and looks to make e-commerce more profitable. Walmart U.S. reported total revenue of $134.6 billion, up 8.6% year-over-year for the first quarter in its fiscal year 2021. The financial report sheds light Read More
Amazon has announced a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition software, Rekognition. IBM previously announced it was ending the sale of general purpose facial recognition software in an effort to support civil rights and police reform. Now Read More
“Virtual restaurants is a very interesting initiative,” says Uber Eats EMEA head Rodrigo Arevalo. “Basically by leveraging the data on our platform, we can partner with other restaurants in order to cuisine types that only exist on food delivery platforms. Read More
Though it was hard to see Matchy McMatchFace miss the boat, we do have a winner in our bid to rename the search company’s not-so-exact match. The votes are in! We put a call out last month for suggestions to give exact Read More
Huawei has been shut out of some high-profile 5G contracts, as both Deutsche Telekom and Bell Canada have gone with Ericsson. Huawei has faced increasing pressure worldwide as the US has led a campaign to shut the Chinese firm out Read More
Once marketers have mastered truly deep psychographic social targeting, it’s time to integrate social PPC into the larger marketing picture by directing precise audiences into tightly filtered retargeting lists to pull them deeper into the conversion funnel. In this edition Read More
“In this environment, digital transformation is more important than ever,” says VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. “If you think of it only a few percentages of employees worked from home before this (pandemic). Now it’s 97 percent. Given the length and Read More
At the recent Social Media Day Jacksonville 2018 conference, Carlos Gil, founder of Gil Media Company, spoke about current social media marketing strategies. In an entertaining and informative talk, Gil spoke about the challenge of getting companies like Win-Dixie to understand that they should Read More
“If people can ride the subway and if people can go to Trader Joe’s and pack into all these different places we can start to open factories,” says legendary tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis during an interview on CNBC: When we look at Read More
How to ensure your syndicated partners don’t outrank you in Google. Last week we reported that Google has updated its algorithms to give original reporting preferred ranking in Google search. So when John Shehata, VP of Audience Growth at Condé Nast, a Read More
