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Google Targets Emotions With Acquisition of GIF Platform Tenor
Google has long dominated the search space, putting the likes of Yahoo, Excite, Ask Jeeves, Cuil, and others largely out of business. Consequentially it also resulted in overwhelming superiority when...
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Why Salesforce’s Quest For $20 Billion Rests With AppExchange and Trailhead
Last November, Marc Benioff proclaimed his company would generate $20 billion in revenue by 2022. The declaration by Salesforce’s chief executive came after successfully beating analyst expectations in...
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The Reset of Facebook
Facebook once had the mantra “Move Fast and Break Things” which encouraged the development of tools and services at breakneck speeds. While it was retired in 2014, for more than a decade, it was...
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Square’s Weebly Acquisition Beefs Up Its Small Business Stack Offering
When Square started nine years ago, it was simply focused on helping businesses make transactions on the fly, thanks to its iconic mobile card reader. Since then, it has branched out to look at new...
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GitPrime Lands $10.5 Million Investment To Make Engineers More Productive
Companies are always searching for ways to improve productivity. It’s this need that helped propel Slack, Atlassian, and other providers within this “Future of Work” segment to success or notoriety....
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Facebook’s Likely Message to Developers at F8: Hear Us Out
Facebook’s F8 developer conference is right around the corner (May 1-2) and while the past few years have been more celebratory and designed to further modernize the company’s ecosystem, the 2018...
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Begin Shuttering Slack-Based Task Management Tool To Pursue The Serverless Stack
Nearly two months ago, Ryan Block launched a Slack bot called Begin with a goal of improving our workplace productivity. But on Thursday, his company announced a major change: The bot is being...
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Square’s Bitcoin Efforts Generate $34 Million in Revenue, But Doubt Remains
Square announced the results (PDF) of its first-quarter 2018 earnings, and for the most part, it was pretty routine. But one thing that did stand out was the revenue that was generated from Bitcoin:...
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Mark Zuckerberg Turns to Base, Pitches Continued Building as Way Forward
It’s a typical tactic that politicians utilize when they want support for a proposal they’re pitching — hold a rally in a part of their constituency where they have strong backing from their base. But...
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Klout’s Role in the Weaponization of Influence
For some, it’s considered to be the punch line to a joke, or just a vanity metric. For others, it’s a badge of honor — the dispensation of the “+K” that for years, bolstered their designation as being...
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Snap Has a Startup Accelerator, but Who Really Benefits?
A fad these days is for corporations to launch startup accelerators, a program designed to help legacy incumbents innovate. We’ve seen these initiatives sprout up time-and-time again, like with Orange,...
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For Intercom, All Your Customer Relationships Are Belong to You
When I started working for Intercom a year ago, the initial reactions I received were people asking: "The live chat company?" And while that's primarily the solution it's known for, the reality is in...
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Speculating About Mozilla’s Upcoming Scout Browser App
The browser has always been a staple of the internet experience, providing a gateway to unlimited pieces of information in a visually-pleasing manner. While Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Google...
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User-Generated Marketing Service Chute Acquired by Private Equity Firm ESW...
A few years ago, companies clamored for solutions to help them capitalize on free media, the content people were producing on social media and voicing their support or displeasure about a particular...
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Joining Team Flipboard
I have a compulsion where I’d like to be one of the first to share the news with others, either as a writer or a curator. It’s what drew me to first blog here, for Bub.blicio.us (thanks to Brian...
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‘Dear Founder’ Is the Business World’s ‘Dear Abby’ That Entrepreneurs Should...
Whenever I'm motivated to take on a massive undertaking, be it a new adventure, traveling to another country, or anything work-related, I try not to take a half-ass approach to it, and this means...
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Salesforce’s $750 Million Bet to Reimagine Productivity in the Modern Workforce
Five years ago, it started off as something many people equated to being a Word processing app. Quip, started by former Facebook Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor and ex-Googler Kevin Gibbs,...
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Facebook Going to Facebook
In the Aaron Sorkin-created show "The West Wing", there's an episode in which fictional President Jed Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen) argues with his Chief-of-Staff Leo McGarry (the late-John...
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LinkedIn Goes Live
If you looked at the video space earlier than 2017, LinkedIn would not have been associated with it. The Microsoft-owned professional social network hadn't really dipped its toes into the media,...
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The Secret to Innovation Rests With Knowing Thy Customers
As brands continue their quest to leverage the latest shiny object tech affords them, the question remains how adept companies are in really knowing how to best reach their customers. It turns out...
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