Here's an unlikely but potentially powerful alliance: Pinterest and Samsung have just joined forces to take on search. Pin the Phone on the Digital Donkey Pinterest's new visual search tech will power the image search function in Samsung's Galaxy S8, and Samsung's AI assistant Bixby. This means when users take pictures on the phone's camera, […]
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Snapchat has launched Search for Stories, which opens up the world of Snapchat content far beyond users you follow. Super Snaps Now Snaps submitted to Our Stories can be searched by anyone. There are currently over 1 million to choose from, ranging from the Super Bowl to the summit of Mount Everest. Snapchat says you
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Facebook is testing a second, alternative News Feed for mobile users. Multiple sources Select Facebook users have reported seeing a rocket ship icon on their iOS or Android devices, which leads to a second News Feed. This feed looks and feels just like the regular one, except the content comes from Pages and profiles you
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Video on Facebook is taken for granted these days, but a new study shows just how persuasive the medium has become on the social network. Look at this A study from Quintly looked at 167,000 Facebook profiles and 6 million posts from July to December 2016. Quintly found 90% of Pages use Facebook native videos
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Messenger has unveiled its glowing new brain. Simply called M, Messenger's AI is designed to make your experience more "delightful" – if you believe Facebook's press release. Brainiac M makes suggestions on additional features you might want to use in Messenger, based on your conversations. For example, if you're planning to meet up with friends,
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In what might seem a counter-intuitive step, YouTube is cutting ads on channels with less than 10,000 views in total. Ad-Free? However the move ins't entirely altruistic, nor necessarily aimed at making the viewing experience better for users. Rather, the update is a response to the backlash YouTube faced after big advertisers found their ads
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LinkedIn has added a bunch of new features to Sales Navigator, including enhanced CRM and PointDrive integration, and an Enterprise edition. Lead me on Until now, manually logging activities into Sales Navigator was a time-intensive affair. Using Navigator's new CRM Sync, you can add activities such as taking notes, sending InMails, and placing calls, with
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Foursquare Analytics boasts an impressive new dashboard, combining a given company’s foot traffic data with 93 million mapped locations. Method to the madness The new dashboard is designed to collaborate with in-house analysts to yield patterns in foot traffic unique to that company. Companies such as Equinox, H&M, Taco Bell, and TGI Fridays have been
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Last year saw the launch of Workplace, Facebook's enterprise collaboration app and Slack rival. Now Facebook is looking to woo more big spenders with a free version of the app. Talk to me Dubbed Workplace Standard, the new offering is aimed at businesses wanting a paid solution for specific teams or departments, rather than their
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Facebook has announced the imminent release of smoothly integrating animated GIFs into posts as well as messenger conversations. Add a bit of animation to your discussions Users will soon be able to utilise third party services, such as Tenor and Giphy, to post GIFs as comments on Facebook. Facebook Messenger has allowed for keyboard functions
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