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OCTOBER 3, 2019

With a redesign of Google Shopping, the platform is receiving multiple new features such as options to track prices, shop local stores and come across style inspiration via Google Lens. With an image of an outfit that consumers like, Google Lens can now pull up other “style ideas” from the internet.

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MAY 8, 2020

Google recently got involved with three new tools backed by artificial intelligence to help banks navigate the program. Banks and tech companies continue to launch Paycheck Protection Program solutions.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

Apple Pay was trending across social media today on news the payment option will soon be accepted at Target, Taco Bell and other major U.S. According to Apple, 74 of the top 100 U.S. merchants now accept Apple Pay. The company touted the service’s ease of use, security and speed at the register. But […].

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

That’s one angle through which you can view a recent development involving Google Lens. The product, which is Google’s object recognition platform, has taken on new duties. On Google Images results, a new Lens button will appear at the bottom of each picture. New Role for Lens. Visual + Contextual Commerce.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

The visual social media site just announced the hiring of two former Google executives. Jon Alferness, former vp of product management at Google’s shopping and traveling products, joins Pinterest’s ad team as the new head of ad products. Pinterest is building out its advertising team, and it means business.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

This newest round of regulatory focus involves Amazon and Google and comes as rules crafted by the European Union continue to have an increasing impact on digital economies and endeavors throughout the world. Google Fine. Speaking of Google …. Amazon Probe. Let’s start with Amazon. 20) from Reuters. European Tone.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

2020 just might be the year that the long-awaited social shopping business actually shows up. Ever since Facebook and Google put their muscle behind connecting content to commerce three years ago, the potential for social shopping has been rich – but the results have fallen short of expectations. percent from the prior year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In the highly connected digital age, consumers are interacting with a multitude of social media sites as well as apps and connected devices. During this time, retailers and tech companies are bringing integrated shopping experiences into the sites and apps where consumers spend the most time.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

For fans of retail or marketing history — or just fans of how people communicated in the past — reading old magazine and newspaper advertisement from, say, before the 1960s can be fun and illuminating. Already, retailers, telecoms and others are mapping out that 5G AR future (and beyond). The Rise Of AR.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Google appears to be losing steam in the ongoing race to dominate the online advertising market, and competitors Amazon and Facebook are taking advantage of the stumbles. As revealed in Google’s first-quarter 2019 financials, ad clicks across the Google sites also decelerated to 39 percent, as measured in terms of paid clicks.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Here’s why: Traditionally users weren’t able to purchase items through social media platforms. Social influencers could promote brands through their channels and direct users to “swipe up” or click a link in their bio to purchase.

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AUGUST 29, 2018

JD.com , a Chinese eCommerce company, is tapping Google and Walmart to help it expand outside China. Bloomberg , citing an interview with Richard Liu, the head of JD.com , reported Liu is in the initial stages of planning with Google to lure customers outside the country. and Southeast Asia. and Southeast Asia.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Social media site Pinterest has announced a new feature that will allow users to make purchases from a selected number of online shops as it continues to expand and grow, according to a report from CNBC. The feature, called the Pinterest Shop , has hundreds of what the company is calling “Product Pins.”

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JULY 26, 2020

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are now scheduled to appear before a Congressional subcommittee exploring competitive practices among Big Tech Wednesday (July 29) instead of Monday (July 27) as originally planned. It is unclear what arguments Google will make.

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MARCH 25, 2019

For a large segment of social media users, commerce may be getting a lot more contextual, as Instagram has launched a checkout feature designed to help the platform become a more attractive place for consumers to shop. “Instagram is a place for people to treat themselves with inspiration, not a place to tax themselves with errands.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

The social media company has indicated that the Access Act, a proposed data portability law, is a first move in the right direction. Facebook first let American and Canadian users move their videos and pictures to Google Photos in April. The support comes before a planned Sept.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

For fans of retail or marketing history — or just fans of how people communicated in the past — reading old magazine and newspaper advertisement from, say, before the 1960s can be fun and illuminating. Already, retailers, telecoms and others are mapping out that 5G-augmeneted reality future (and beyond).

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Social media image-sharing platform Pinterest is introducing an augmented reality (AR) try-on tool to help users assess and compare eyeshadow. . In October, Pinterest updated product tagging with improved functionality for retailers to tag their own scene images with specific products. 22) press release.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Talking about retail and not mention Amazon these days is a difficult thing to do. The eCommerce company has grown significantly in the past few decades, and we’ve started to see the physical impacts of its innovative force on other retailers. And these are just the numbers Amazon itself chooses to put out into the retail sphere.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

Google is far behind, with 27 percent of the share. But Google is working hard to break into the that league — and has had some success. And Google is pursuing its unique strategy to match the impressive scale Amazon is building for Alexa — and looking to equal its offerings. It was one of several glitches the tester found.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

“How about waking up in the morning and asking Google Home or Amazon Alexa, or your mobile phone if you’re on the go, ‘Hey Google, hey Amazon, what are my deals for the day?’” Successful retailers, for example, can provide discounts for consumers to come into the store at a certain time of day.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

According to CNBC , King will be the new head of engineering at social media company Pinterest, where he’ll be in charge of the site’s “visual discovery engine” that recommends posts and images to users. Walmart CTO Jeremy King is moving to Pinterest. Last month, the company made a confidential filing with the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2017

Reveal Mobile, a leading innovator in monetizing location-based audience data, announced the launch of Social Direct, a platform that enables advertising agencies, retailers and brands to leverage location-based audience data for highly targeted social media campaigns.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The social media giant announced this week that it is eliminating transaction fees on donations. The search engine giant has added a finance tab to its search results, incorporating information from Google Finance such as news and detailed financials on companies in an easier-to-find format. million through the site.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches, an airfare insight and travel recommendations offering. The travel industry also is the site of recent retail-oriented innovation. Contextual Commerce.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

With this addition, each of the Frightful Five will have its own voice-controlled speaker: Amazon with its Echo family of devices; Google with the Home speaker; Apple with its new HomePod; Microsoft with the Cortana-powered Invoke speaker; and now, Alibaba, with its as-yet unnamed voice assistant and device. Alibaba isn’t just a copycat.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

It would make sense that lower costs could work in favor of non-traditional internet advertising, including Google Ad Words and social media campaigns. The wild card here is the amount of small businesses that feed the revenue of ad words and social platforms. Time will tell.

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JULY 6, 2016

Back in 2014, Stripe confirmed that it was working with Facebook on a “Buy” button for the social media giant. Whatever happened to the “Buy with Facebook” button?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Apple reportedly said that the service will not allow advertisers to track what subscribers are reading, which means no targeted ads based on consumed news stories, as is the case with social media. As PYMNTS has regularly documented, subscription eCommerce is among the hottest areas of digital retail.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2018

Additionally, Yelp renews its antitrust complaint against Google, augmented reality might appeal to a specific type of consumer and Neiman Marcus makes an inventory move. The social media site’s Marketplace platform is rolling out a new feature designed to make it easier for users to find contractors, carpenters, plumbers and house cleaners.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The executive said that the retailer will keep taking on the extra expenses without increasing charges until June 1, 2021. State Attorneys General Sue Google Over ‘Exclusionary Tactics’. He also noted that Amazon has invested in excess of $10 billion in “COVID-19 related operating costs” since the pandemic began. In October, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

Coverage includes news about new social media ads and Google ’s new payment offering. Amid New Google Pay Features, Users Can Split The Bill. have decided to go cashless, some lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require retailers to accept cash. Facebook Testing AR Ads In News Feed.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

The eCommerce retailer invested $22.6 Here’s how these companies are investing in R&D — and ushering in the next generation of retail technology. Google is aiming to get more augmented reality (AR) on Android mobile phones and released a mobile developer tool in 2017 to meet that end. Amazon spent the most on R&D by far.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They feel the threat of Amazon and other retail giants moving into their space, and they want to fight back. The problem is: While there’s a lot healthcare can learn from retail, it’s also true that much about retail doesn’t work in healthcare. It’s the Google experience. It’s the social media or TurboTax experience.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Google ’s massive outage on Monday (Dec. Although Google restored YouTube’s services after about an hour, that was long enough for the hashtag #YouTubeDOWN to generate tons of tweets from alarmed users. Such concerns aren’t surprising, given that YouTube is the world’s second-most popular website , trailing only Google itself.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The European Commission told Amazon of its “preliminary view that it has breached EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in online retail markets,” according to the statement. India’s Antitrust Watchdog Opens Google Antitrust Case.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) weighed in on a dispute after a German online fashion retailer was accused of violating EU law by embedding a “Like” plugin. A consumer association in Germany said the plugin allowed the social media company to collect data on the site’s users, the news outlet said.

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