Ed Byrne is an entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of Scaleworks. More posts by this contributor We’ve had a great decade-long run in SaaS — abundant capital, a thriving economy and a massive existing market shift from on-premise to cloud. But the good times will end and challenges are coming. I’m not predicting when it will…
By Morgan Sung2020-03-13 21:46:57 UTC Trump’s press conference declaring a nationwide state of emergency did little to quell the panic surrounding the coronavirus outbreak, but at least we got a decent meme out of it. During the conference on Friday, the president shook hands with a number of high-ranking officials from various corporations — doing…
Facebook said on Friday that it is committing to match $20 million in donations, a fraction of its quarterly profit, to support global relief efforts for COVID-19 coronavirus. Mark Zuckerberg, the social juggernaut’s chief executive, said Facebook was committing $10 million for the United Nations Foundation (UNF) and World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund…
Image: Omar Marques / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images By Matt Binder2020-03-13 18:43:49 UTC Have you ever copied a password or perhaps even your credit card number on your iPhone in order to easily paste it onto a website form? If you have, then it’s likely you’ve just exposed that information to a…
Here’s how companies and brands can create viral marketing content on platforms like TikTok. March 13, 2020 1 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Thomas Ma, co-founder of Sapphire Apps Media, talks about how working at his mother’s nail salon taught him what it means to be an entrepreneur and how…
TLDR: The Dynamic Digital Marketing Manager Bundle explains all the steps to harness the power of social media and online messaging for your business. It’s easy to disregard social media and email as a simple conveyance system for political screeds, cat memes, spam and emails from your mother. But the truth is, to the seasoned…
It was a big weekend on the tech and governance beat, led by news of the spread of the COVID-19 disease in the United States and its spiraling consequences for companies in Silicon Valley and beyond. Today we’re introducing a new, hopefully short-lived section of The Interface that covers the spread of the novel coronavirus…
Yext says that in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s making its Yext Answers site search product free for 90 days. You might not see an obvious connection between site search and a worldwide pandemic. You might even think this sounds like a marketing gimmick. But Yext CEO Howard Lerman said that for the past…
Superpeer is giving YouTube creators and other experts a new way to make money. The startup announced today that it has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Eniac Ventures, with participation from angel investors including Steven Schlafman, Ankur Nagpal, Julia Lipton, Patrick Finnegan, Justin De Guzman, Chris Lu, Paul Yacoubian and Cheryl Sew…
Tesla plans its next massive “gigafactory,” Google steps up efforts against COVID-19 and NEA raises a $3.6 billion fund. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 11, 2020. 1. Tesla is eyeing Nashville for Cybertruck gigafactory Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday evening that the company is “scouting” locations to build a new U.S. “gigafactory” that…
How to win over customers online. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy Image credit: Giuseppe Miglino | Getty Images Imran Tariq Guest Writer Co-Founder and CEO of Webmetrix Group March 11, 2020 7 min read Opinions expressed by…
CRM software accounts for one-quarter of all enterprise IT spend. But ironically, while a lot of money is spent on platforms like Salesforce or SAP to manage incoming calls and outgoing marketing and sales activity, not a lot of attention is given to the issue of how to help the teams using all that software work…
Source: AdidasWhat you need to know Google, Adidas, and EA have joined hands to launch a smart insole that can analyze your footwork in real time with the help of machine learning. Called the Adidas GMR, the smart insole is now on sale for $40. Thanks to the smart tag inside GMR, it can connect…
YouTube today announced a change in policy regarding the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. Previously, YouTube’s advertising guidelines prevented monetization of videos that included more than a passing mention of the coronavirus as part of its “sensitive events” policy. The policy is meant to protect advertisers from being associated with videos about things like mass shootings,…
People share passwords for their various streaming services all the time. Whether you personally take part in this practice or not is your own ethical gray area to manage, but it’s a common practice in the digital world: You trade me a spot in your Netflix family and I’ll give you my Hulu access.Sharing passwords,…
From building brand awareness to boosting sales, you can’t afford not to update your knowledge. Editors independently select all products and services featured here. If you buy something through our links, we may receive a commission. By Sarah Griffiths2020-03-11 18:20:06 UTC No matter what you do for a living, having sound knowledge of digital marketing…
Several leaks and FCC filings have pointed to some very exciting upcoming new features of Ring’s next video doorbell, the Video Doorbell 3. As reported by Tom’s Guide: The news starts with FCC filings (and leads to Ring’s own site) which spills the beans on the Video Doorbell 3, the successor to the Ring Video…
Include an iCustomers wearing protective facemasks visit an Apple store in Hong Kong on February 22, 2020.Photo: Vivek Prakash (GettyA Senate subcommittee on Tuesday took aim at what one witness described as a “dire threat” to the digital marketplace—the processes by which “platform monopolists” such as Google allegedly maintain a stranglehold over the range of…
