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Salesforce Integrates AI-Powered Image Recognition for Twitter
Eleven months ago the tech world was abuzz with rumors flying that Salesforce might buy Twitter. Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff had called the still struggling social media company an “unpolished jewel,” a “great brand” and the proposition of acquiring it “a once in a lifetime opportunity.
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SAP Leonardo's New IoT Solutions, Accenture's Latest Buy, More News
SAP unveiled new solutions built on its SAP Leonardo IoT platform at its SAP Leonardo Live conference this week in Frankfurt, Germany. The solutions build off releases unveiled during the Walldorf, Germany-based company's SAPPHIRE NOW conference in May.
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How to Break Through With CIOs on Social Media
It’s hard to be the Chief Information Officer. These busy tech execs are under pressure to successfully power up the CEO’s latest digital transformation initiative, plus hire and retain the best IT talent.
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Twitter Stockholders Want Board to Consider Sale to Users
Activist shareholders made a proposal to Twitter's board of directors last Friday: consider selling the platform to its users. A Securities and Exchange Commission proxy statement published last Friday, and signed by Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey, revealed shareholders fear the platform's future is at stake.
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Twitter Sells Fabric to Google, Plus Top Tech Acquisitions, Funding, More News
Twitter this week abandoned all plans of becoming an ecosystem with the sale of its suite of developer products, including its developer suite Fabric. That's the conclusion from Richard Windsor, an analyst at Edison Investment Research, who said the sale makes Twitter solely dependent on engagement around media consumption.
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What Gets CIO Influencers Talking on Twitter
If you want to see a sign of how quickly things can rise and fall on social media, look no further than the latest report from Leadtail.
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Twitter Cuts Staff, Oracle vs. Google, More News
Twitter is cutting 9 percent of its staff and its video app, Vine. The San Francisco social media company released its third-quarter earnings yesterday. In a letter to shareholders (PDF), Twitter said it will cut 9 percent of its global workforce — about 350 positions.
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Salesforce Investors Question Marc Benioff's Twitter Infatuation
SAN FRANCISCO — Two weeks ago CMSWire asked the obvious: Why the hell would Salesforce want to buy Twitter? Now the company's investors are asking the same thing. In a meeting with investors yesterday following his Dreamforce keynote, Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff was forced to defend his
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Why the Hell Would Salesforce Want to Buy Twitter?
Rumors surfaced today that Salesforce was interested in buying Twitter — boosting Twitter stock at least temporarily to highs it hasn't experienced since early January. Of course, Salesforce isn't the only rumored suitor.
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How Social Media Can Inspire Useful, Engaging News Feeds at Work
Before social media hit the mainstream, we had no idea how engaging – or frankly, addictive – it would be. This month marks the tenth anniversary for Facebook’s now ubiquitous news feed – an innovation from the social network giant's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, that many users initially detested. Lessons
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Salesforce Tackles Diversity, Twitter Targets Customer Support, More News
Salesforce has hired an executive to lead its equality efforts. The San Francisco-based cloud computing company tapped Tony Prophet as its chief equality officer. He starts at the end of this month. Prophet will leading the company's equality initiatives, focusing on gender, LGBTQ and racial equality. He will report to
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China's iPinYou Enters US Market in Partnership with Twitter-Owned MoPub
iPinYou, one of China's largest programmatic ad buying platform, is tackling the US market with a local base and a partnership with MoPub.
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Twitter Monetizes Videos With Amplify Publisher Program
Twitter plans to share ad revenue with video creators who upload their content to the microblogging platform. Through its Amplify Publisher Program, San Francisco-base Twitter will give US video creators multiple new ways to monetize content. According to a blog post by Guy Snir, director of product management at
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Twitter Numbers Disappoint But Oh, That Data
Twitter’s future in the long run is a matter of debate for business analysis and stock market mavens. For digital marketers, it is still a fountain of data.
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