Google chose an unlikely platform in their new video ad for Google Assistant to address whether or not cryptocurrency is money. Google entered the cryptocurrency-as-money debate on Tuesday, Oct. 9, arguing over its validity during an introductory video for a new feature from its Google Assistant tool. While demonstrating how its Call Screen caller ID […]
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The New York Attorney General and the Connecticut Attorney General are investigating the Google data breach that may have exposed the private data of at least 500,000 users. Google announced Monday (October 8) that it is shutting down Google+ after finding a security bug that made the data accessible to developers. In a blog post, Google said […]
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If data is the new oil, then it could be said that retailers are sitting on data gushers. After all, they have terabytes of data flowing across their various retail channels — and then use the insights that come from it to build better consumer experiences. It sounds elegant and obvious. The problem — Karen Webster noted in a recent conversation with […]
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As is often the case with these big hardware events – the Made by Google Event was both surprising and not. Much of what was rolled on a New York stage yesterday afternoon (Oct. 9) was anticipated and well known long before the stage presentations began: the new Pixel phone was described as “exactly as […]
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WhatsApp, Facebook’s messaging app that is trying to make inroads in the digital payments market in India, has created a system to store payment data locally in India. Reuters, citing a statement from WhatsApp, reported the company confirmed it built the system in response to India’s payment data guidelines. India has required companies to store […]
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In May, Adobe bought open source commerce platform Magento, creating a Commerce Cloud. On Tuesday, Adobe unveiled how it is integrating Magento into its Experience Cloud. In Adobe’s sky, there are clouds that contain other clouds. So, the Experience Cloud contains the Marketing Cloud, the Analytics Cloud, the Advertising Cloud — and, with the acquisition, […]
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Here’s our recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, Marketing Land and other places across the web. From MarTech Today: IBM Watson give intelligent ads wider release, expands targeting Oct 5, 2018 by Barry Levine Watson Ads Omni, Media Optimizer and Predictive Audiences are now using Watson’s neural nets to […]
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A new study has found that the smart speaker and music streaming markets are becoming more interdependent. According to CNBC, market research firm AudienceNet conducted the study, called “Audiomonitor 2018: The Overall Music Listening Landscape,” surveying 3,000 people older than 16. The data revealed that music services such as Spotify, Apple Music and Pandora are […]
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Google is readying an appeal of the European Union’s record €4.34bn fine, which it was slapped with in July over its Android mobile operating system. According to the Financial Times, Google has until Wednesday (October 10) to file an appeal with the European Court of Justice against the European Union decision which was meted out […]
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Earlier this year at Google I/O, the company’s developer conference, Google demonstrated an AI technology called Duplex. The AI-powered conversational bot sounded indistinguishably like a human during recorded human-computer interactions over the phone. This was the Turing test realized. When I asked Google later about how it would handle the ethical issue of disclosure to […]
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