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Is the Retail Industry Finally Emerging from a Death Spiral?
Is the Retail Industry Finally Emerging from a Death Spiral? Despite an apparent reversal in the fortunes of traditional retailers this year, experts aren’t sold on the confidence Wall Street is showing on these old-guard businesses. Share prices for department stores like [...]Read more
AMC Stubs A-List Movie Pass: Coming to a Theater Near You
Even as MoviePass settles into an updated model meant to increase profitability, now allowing MoviePass holders to see one film each day for a monthly fee of $9.95, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc is preparing to launch a similar service for their loyal theater patrons, called [...]Read more
Just Call Amazon Pharmacy For Your Med Refills
Rumors of an Amazon Pharmacy have been flying for the better part of a year that the big tech giant was preparing to disrupt the pharmaceutical industry, but until the $1 billion offer for PillPack was made official, it seemed to all be a lot of panic for nothing. During that [...]Read more
American and Chinese Technology Race to Lead Future Tech
American tech firms and Chinese technology are embroiled in a race to control the world’s most advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and advanced energy and manufacturing. In this case as in so many others, money is the key to everything. Is [...]Read more
Twitter Audit Removes Fake Followers
Amidst long-standing issues with cyberbullying, hate speech and political intrigue, Twitter audits have been a necessary step closer toward getting some kind of hold on its platform. According to the New York Times, the social media platform has started the process of removing [...]Read more
IGTV, Instagram Positions Itself to Grab Future Video Ad Share
The rumor mill has scooped yet another big tech announcement, IGTV is here. After months of speculation, Instagram officially announced the launch of IGTV. This is the video platform made just for the way people use their mobile devices, or so it claims. Amateur and professional [...]Read more
Verizon 5G Network: Finding a Television Partner
According to a recent report by Bloomberg, Verizon has been courting both YouTube TV and Apple TV for a partnership as the company’s next generation Verizon 5G network creeps toward becoming a reality. Because the competition offers bundled services, including live television [...]Read more
Content Marketing: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Compete for SERP
Once upon a time, SEO copywriting was all about stuffing in as many keywords as possible and hoping the crawlers got confused and posted terrible content with lots of ads high on the search results pages of their particular search engine. Today, guidelines say that the key to [...]Read more
Google’s Parent Alphabet Spends and Thrives
Even as Facebook is being raked over the coals over user data security, fellow Internet advertising giant Alphabet is making, and spending, a bundle. Net profits at Alphabet grew 73 percent year over year in the first quarter, to $9.4 billion from $5.4 billion. It’s the [...]Read more
Facebook Marketing Updates Third-party Data Access
It’s been a few weeks since Facebook announced it was shutting down Partner Categories in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Mark Zuckerberg has made a decision to discontinue all uses of third-party data. That goes for Instagram, too. A lot of marketers are left [...]Read more
