How Ecommerce Companies Can Grow During a Recession
Even with economies disrupted all over the world, your online business can continue to count real, reliable growth, so long as it’s using the right strategies.
Get the most out of Instagram with this marketing subscription
Products featured here are selected by our partners at StackCommerce.If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. A lifetime subscription to Planagram Agency Plan is on sale for £40.26. Image: pixabay By StackCommerceMashable Shopping2020-06-20 04:00:00 UTC TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to Planagram Agency Plan is on sale for…
How to Use Email to Boost PR and Sales
How can you leverage the power of email to improve the public perception of your brand? Also, how can you turn your PR wins into lead generation opportunities? Find out now
Is Google E-A-T Actually a Ranking Factor? – Whiteboard Friday
Many SEOs agree that showing expertise, authority, and trustworthiness in your site content is important to ranking well. But why is that, exactly? Is it because Google E-A-T is an actual ranking factor, or is it something else? In this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Cyrus Shepard explores whether it can be considered a true ranking factor,…
Republicans Blow Off Intelligence Hearing on Election Security With Top Silicon Valley Officials
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) listens to testimony during the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump on November 20, 2019. Photo: Doug Mills (Getty)Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were a no-show as top officials from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testified and answered questions about their companies’ efforts to safeguard voters…
Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Nazi Iconography
Screenshot: FacebookMeasured against its peers, Facebook has been particularly soft on Donald Trump and his administration’s penchant for spewing violent rhetoric, misinformation, and outright lies. It seems, after no shortage of pressure, the social media company has found where it draws the line for a sitting president: the extraordinarily low bar of invoking symbols used…
Facebook removes Trump ad over ‘Nazi hate symbol’
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has said the platform will avoid moderating political speech Facebook says it has removed adverts for US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that featured a symbol used in Nazi Germany. The company said the offending ad contained an inverted red triangle similar to that used by…
YouTube announces a new shoppable ad format
YouTube today announced a new direct response ad format that will make YouTube video ads more “shoppable” by adding browsable product images underneath the ad to drive traffic directly to brands’ product pages. The introduction of the format comes at a time when advertisers are trying to find new ways to capture consumers’ growing interest…
Facebook removes Trump campaign ads featuring Nazi symbol
Facebook removed a cluster of incendiary Trump campaign ads Thursday for violating its rules against hate group imagery. The campaign’s ads attacked antifa, the decentralized anti-fascist movement and a frequent target of the president’s ire, with imagery of an upside-down red triangle — a well-documented symbol worn by political prisoners held in Nazi concentration camps.…
5 Reasons Your Ecommerce Store Needs a Mobile App Today
While a responsive website is an excellent starting point in your m-commerce journey, having a mobile app has distinct advantages over mobile websites. Here is a list of compelling reasons why your ecommerce business needs to go for mobile-app development in addition to having a mobile-responsive website.
How Surveillance Has Always Reinforced Racism
Simone Browne is a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Browne studies how surveillance technologies have objectified, categorized, and repressed black people, from the panoptic slave ships of the Middle Passage to modern policing tools deployed against protesters. Amid recent police shootings…
Last of Us Part 2: Creators say diversity in games ‘essential’
Image copyright Sony The abandoned house is pitch black, except for the dim circle of light squeezing out of your torch. As you sneak past the moth-bitten sofa, broken television and toppled chest of drawers, suddenly you realise you’re not alone. The sound of pained screeching and clicking pierces the silence and, seemingly out of…
Here are the top 10 US colleges that tech giants such as Google, Apple, and Facebook hire from, according to new LinkedIn data (GOOG, FB)
This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime. Join BI Prime and start reading now. An analysis of LinkedIn data across tech employees has discovered which universities are most popular among the biggest companies in Silicon Valley. The data reveals that the University of Washington produces the highest number of graduates working at major tech…
Facebook Won’t Do Shit About Political Ads, But Here, You Can Ignore Them Now
Image: GettyAfter weeks of watching hypnotoad Mark Zuckerberg attempting to smush logic to accommodate a threatening conspiracy theorist, meanwhile allegedly firing critics, Facebook has produced an offering that could maybe take some of the heat off without fixing any of the aforementioned problems. In a rare USA Today op-ed yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will…
Block Political Ads on Facebook With ‘Social Fixer’
For those of you still Facebooking, get ready for the best news the platform has dropped in ages. If you aren’t already sick of all the political advertising blowing through your feed, you will be soon—unless you take advantage of a new feature that will hide every political ad on social network right now with…
Daily Crunch: Facebook will let you turn off political ads
Facebook adds a personal off switch for political ads, T-Mobile lays off hundreds of Sprint employees and a content management platform raises $80 million. Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 17, 2020. 1. Facebook adds option for US users to turn off political ads, launches voting info hub Facebook made the controversial decision not to…
U.S. government requests for Google, Facebook user data continue to grow
By Matt Binder2020-06-16 13:00:00 UTC The U.S. government continues to request more and more user data from the world’s largest tech companies. According to a new report by end-to-end encryption email company ProtonMail, user data requests from the U.S. government to Google have increased a whopping 510 percent since 2010. And its requests for Facebook…
Facebook Groups Are Destroying America
The Covid-19 “infodemic” has laid bare how vulnerable the United States is to disinformation. The country is less than five months away from the 2020 presidential election, and by the thousands, Americans are buying into conspiracy theories about vaccines containing microchips and wondering about the healing powers of hair dryers. Where does all this come…
