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Google Dumps Zagat

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The Infatuation, the restaurant discovery platform, announced Monday (March 5) it is acquiring the restaurant review brand Zagat from Google , nearly seven years after it paid $151 million for it. Iconic brands don’t become available very often, and Zagat is about as iconic as it gets.

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JD Turns To Walmart, Google For International Expansion Help

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JD.com , a Chinese eCommerce company, is tapping Google and Walmart to help it expand outside China. Bloomberg , citing an interview with Richard Liu, the head of JD.com , reported Liu is in the initial stages of planning with Google to lure customers outside the country. and Southeast Asia. and Southeast Asia.

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Digital Ad Business Withers Under COVID-19 Crisis

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The IAB said effects are being felt across ad-supported websites, “as well as companies that provide technical infrastructure to support selling ads” such as network services, brand safety and attribution services. The wild card here is the amount of small businesses that feed the revenue of ad words and social platforms.

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App Could Keep Fridges Full, CPG Brands Informed

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Like the Chefling app, these devices sometimes interface with voice-activated assistants, such as Amazon’s Alexa, and have the potential to save consumers from encountering expiring food and to inform brands on which products consumers are bringing home from the grocery store.

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Data Dive, Better Together Edition: Worldpay, FIS, Google, eBay, PayPal, Instagram

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We started to really think about how [we] not only simplify integration and onboarding, but [how to] better manage operations on an ongoing basis,” he said. “We The company is testing the program with more than 20 beauty and fashion brands , including direct-to-consumer retailers and well-known companies. eBay Drafts Google Pay.

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Will Privacy Worries Change Online Search Habits?

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That’s a question with obvious relevance to payment and commerce operators. Perhaps a better, more specific question is this: Even with Google ’s search engine dominance (a dominance that seems as currently eternal as, say, the power of the British Navy in the late 19 th century), can any challenger make a significant push to gain ground?

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Snapchat Is Sure Its Ads Actually Spur Action, And Oracle Is Helping Prove It

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The myriad social media platform out there — Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, etc. — all have some variation of a common problem: Lots of people using their services all the time and not paying a red cent since the first rule of building a social media platform is simply accepting that users won’t pay to use it.