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Amazon Launches Alexa Skills Workshops For Small Developers

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Amazon is partnering with Galvanize — a 21st-century school for entrepreneurs, engineers, and data scientists — to offer Alexa Skills development workshops that will teach small developers and startups how to build skills for Amazon Alexa, the operating system for smart speaker Echo.

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Google Highlights Black-Owned Businesses On Shopping Tab

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This update … is another way people can shop with Black businesses across Google’s products and platforms,” Attica Jaques, Google's director of brand marketing, consumer apps, said in a blog post on Monday (Feb. The search giant is planning to wrap up Black History Month with a national Black Small Business Meetup on Feb.

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Bank Innovation Completely Overhauls 2018 Conference Agenda

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In addition to fireside chats, startup demos, and general sessions, Bank Innovation’s 2018 conference has added a pre-conference workshop on how to build an innovation team, added even more time […].

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Vans Skates Into LA With Community-Driven Concept

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The brand is well-known for using its community of skateboarders for design ideas and marketing. store opening signifies a new Vans chapter as we continue our mission and commitment to being community- and experience-focused,” said Carly Gomez, VP of marketing, Americas at Vans. Our downtown L.A. “Downtown L.A.

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eCommerce Media Gets Its Own Upfront Event

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The selling point is compelling, as it places a brand’s ads in front of a customer at the exact time they are in the market. Horizon Media and Night Market, Horizon’s eCommerce data intelligence firm, are announcing what they call the first eCommerce Upfront, to be held July 13-17.

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SMBs Refocus On The ‘Four Ps’ — Especially Payments

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That means digitizing all aspects of their businesses from marketing to all facets of daily operations, from consumer-facing outreach to payments in the back office in order to stay connected to consumers and communities. Fine-Tuning Marketing And Reinventing The ‘Four Ps’ . If we have a product or service, we’re marketers.”.

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Apple Debuts China App Development Program

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The fact that the app development program is housed and focused on China shows the importance of this market for China. The program, as reported, will feature lectures and workshops, along with networking sessions. The company has said that more than 2.5

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