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Will Our Love-Hate Relationship with Social Media Ever Break?

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consumers and social media. Data breaches, marketing so targeted and specific that it can feel creepy, lack of privacy and regrets over wasted time — people complain constantly about how social media causes or enables all that. Yet those same people find it hard to quit the Facebook, Twitter and social media platforms.

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Is Social Media Key to Hitting the Trillions for (Fin)Tech Companies?

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Analyst Michael Markowski seems to think so, citing the technology giant’s recent acquisition of professional social media site LinkedIn as the boost that pushed Microsoft into the race. Could Microsoft be the first technology company to earn a one trillion market value?

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Google Quits Cookies As Data Privacy Regs Show Fangs

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How that will affect merchants’ online promotional activity hangs in the balance. As we know, mostly anonymous corporations have been collecting consumer data online for years, usually without explicit permission, selling it or using it for ad retargeting and personalization. That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators.

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Google Rolls Out ‘Product Discovery Solutions For Retail’ Suite

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Google Cloud is rolling out Product Discovery Solutions for Retail, a new suite of services that will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help eCommerce firms deliver personalized consumer experiences during a shopping journey’s initial phase. "As

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Employee Advocacy Prompts Google To Approve European Work Council

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Google’s workforce in Europe will soon have representation by European Works Councils (EWCs) after 153 employees from 11 offices advocated for one, according to a Bloomberg report on Thursday (March 19). Google is now starting the process and will meet with employees about its breadth, the sources said.

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Can Google Fight Off Amazon And Facebook In Online Ad Race?

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Google appears to be losing steam in the ongoing race to dominate the online advertising market, and competitors Amazon and Facebook are taking advantage of the stumbles. As revealed in Google’s first-quarter 2019 financials, ad clicks across the Google sites also decelerated to 39 percent, as measured in terms of paid clicks.

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Google Launches New Shopping Platform In India

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Google has released Google Shopping in India to aid customers with a streamlined online shopping experience. According to a report , Google Shopping will allow customers to sift through offers and review costs between multiple merchants. For users on mobile devices, there’s the Google Lens app.

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