Digital shoppers in the United States are clicking and tapping their way to more than $374 billion in online sales in 2020, with no signs of turning back. By 2024, ecommerce sales of physical goods are expected to top $476 billion. While this growth is great news for ecommerce stores, it also means businesses must … [Read more…]
Illustration: © IoT For All You may have heard of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industry 4.0, or the Digital Revolution. From the Connected Plant or Artificial Intelligence to Deep Learning and Augmented Reality there exist a myriad of buzzing technologies that promise to allow humans to go sit on a beach while robots … [Read more…]
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(Reuters) — Alphabet’s Google aims to power its datacenters and offices using solely carbon-free electricity by 2030, CEO Sundar Pichai told Reuters, building on the company’s previous goal of matching its energy use with 100% renewable energy. The “stretch goal,” as Pichai described it, will force Google to move beyond the tech industry norm of … [Read more…]
Apple After months of speculating whether or not we’ll get an iPhone 12 and Apple Watch 6 in the same timeframe as previous years, Apple has confirmed it will host a launch event later today — virtually, of course. The Apple Store is down and the company last week sent out an invite for Sept. 15 at 10 … [Read more…]
Salesforce and other tech giants invest $24M in IFTTT to help it expand in enterprise IoT Skip to content IFTTT (If This Than That), a web-based software that automates and connects over 600 online services/software raised a $24M Series C led by Salesforce. Other investors include IBM and the Chamberlain Group and Fenox Venture Capital. … [Read more…]
If you’ve worked as a marketer or author of some content form, you’ve likely had times when finding the right image wasn’t easy. You can’t just pick any image from the internet and use it, as you may not have the right to do so. Pro users, however, know where to look for the images … [Read more…]
After being fired by Facebook this month, a data scientist published a 6,600-word memo to the company’s internal communication systems breaking down 2.5 years of her experiences on the “fake engagement team.” The resulting stories, largely centered on misinformation campaigns with both subtle and clear links to government staffers and political parties around the world, … [Read more…]
WEEK IN IT SECURITY – Just as we were reporting last week on our sister site The Evolving Enterprise that ransomware is behind 1 in 3 cyber security attacks on organisations, news was breaking of another major ransom attack, reports Jeremy Cowan. This time South Carolina-based Blackbaud, a third-party supplier of database services and customer relationship management (CRM) systems for … [Read more…]
I have a confession. I *very* strongly dislike the phrase, “she wears a lot of hats.” It’s overused, like “these are unprecedented times” or “move fast and break things.” But if you’ve been the sole marketing person (or the sole everything person) at a company, the phrase probably fits. And if the phrases (and hats) fit, … [Read more…]