SAP CEO: We’re the Fastest Growing Cloud Company In the Enterprise Software Space

“We’re the fastest growing cloud company in the enterprise software space,” says SAP CEO Bill McDermott. “We grew total revenue by 16% and grew cloud 48%. Let me just put this on the line. When you grow cloud 48%, that’s 80% faster than Salesforce, that’s 30% faster than Workday....
Posted On 25 Apr 2019
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App-marketer spending on Apple Search Ads equals Google, Facebook Combined

App marketers on the Kenshoo platform “spent roughly the same amount on Apple Search Ads as Google and Facebook combined,” according to Kenshoo’s Q1 2019 Quarterly Trends Report. Growth in a very short time frame. The company also said that since Q3 2018, spending on Apple Search...
Posted On 25 Apr 2019
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Audible now offers live customer service through Alexa devices

Alexa devices just got a new use case: live customer service help. This morning, Amazon’s e-book company Audible announced the first live customer service experience on Alexa devices, activated through voice commands. Instead of dialing a phone number or writing an email, Audible...
Posted On 24 Apr 2019
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Workplace by Facebook: a reality check

Internal social tools are fantastic for business. They break down barriers, build connections,and make it easier for employees to collaborate across distances, functions and hierarchies. As the name suggests, they make work more social, too. But, there’s been an excessive amount...
Posted On 23 Apr 2019
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Things that hurt your SEO rankings and how to fix them, part 2

In the previous article on 7 Things That Hurt Your SEO Rankings and How to Fix Them, we found how a drop in SEO rankings can be one of the worst things that can happen to a website. A bad SEO entails practices that are outside the boundaries of Google webmaster guidelines and it...
Posted On 22 Apr 2019
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Have You Tried ‘Doctor Fork’ Pizza Yet? Google Pushes Fake Food Ads in Marketing Experiment

Google and Unskippable Labs cooked up a new project that has marketers salivating with new ideas. The company created a fake pizza brand, “Doctor Fork,” as a way to challenge conventional marketing strategies and see how far they could push the advertising envelope. According to...
Posted On 22 Apr 2019
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Americans Remain Leery of AVs

Change is hard, and, in some cases, it can be downright scary. Technology is driving a lot of change in the 21st century, and it’s possible that the biggest, most “intimidating” changes are yet to come. For instance, robotics, AI (artificial intelligence), and automation are...
Posted On 20 Apr 2019
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Google to offer browser, search-app choices in Android Europe set-up flow

Users will be asked to choose from among five search and browser apps in randomized order. In a European antitrust decision last year, Google was ordered stop compelling phone makers to pre-install Google apps to gain access to Google Play. The decision came with a €4.3 billion...
Posted On 19 Apr 2019
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What to Expect in the Mueller Report

The Justice Department announced Wednesday it would hold a Thursday morning press conference at 9:30 a.m. in conjunction with the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report detailing the findings of his nearly two-year Russia investigation, but further details on...
Posted On 18 Apr 2019
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A closer look at Bing’s box and whisker plots to analyze CPC data

The box and whisker visualization offers a view of both the mean and median along with four quartiles to identify statistical outliers. This is part two of a three-part series about Bing’s data distribution tools. Today, to build upon our working knowledge of data...
Posted On 18 Apr 2019
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