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5 Social Media Innovations That Are Changing the Retail Industry

by | May 5, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

More than 84 percent of smartphone users in the U.S. go online to look up products before purchasing. E-commerce is slowly taking over the consumer world with sales reaching $394.9 billion in 2016, up nearly 16 percent from the previous year.

To stay on top, it makes sense that go where their audience is—meshing the worlds of retail and social media.

Here are five e-commerce tools that are changing the retail industry.

Bonus: Download a free guide that teaches you how to turn Facebook traffic into sales in four simple steps using Hootsuite.

1. Pinterest Lens

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Interested in developing Africa through an innovative business? Join the Diaspora Challenge this Saturday in London

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Interested in developing Africa through an innovative business? Join the Diaspora Challenge this Saturday in London

May 5th, 2017

Nigeria’s premier social innovation centre and startup incubator wants you to help connect the UK and Africa.

When Mark Zuckerberg visited Nigeria in August 2016, one of the places he chose to visit was the Co-Creation Hub, the country’s first social tech startup incubator, in Lagos.

Now, the Co-Creation Hub is coming to Facebook’s London headquarters to launch its latest initiative: the Diaspora Challenge. The goal? To harness the entrepreneurial talents and ideas of the diaspora community in the UK to solve social challenges in …Read More

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From the Brandcast stage: New star-studded shows for audiences around the globe

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Kevin Hart. Rhett and Link. Ellen DeGeneres. Katy Perry. The Slow Mo Guys. Demi Lovato. Ludacris.
These amazing stars all have something in common: They’re starring in new shows premiering exclusively on YouTube. And since these shows are ad-supported, you—and every single one of our billion-plus viewers—can watch for free.
Bringing even more can’t-miss content to audiences globally

How machine learning in G Suite makes people more productive

by | May 4, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

Email management, formatting documents, creating expense reports. These are just some of the time-sinks that can affect your productivity at work. At Google, this is referred to as “overhead”—time spent working on tasks that do not directly relate to creative output—and it happens a lot.

According to a Google study in 2015, the average worker spends only about 5% of his or her time actually coming up with the next big idea. The rest of our time is caught in the quicksand of formatting, tracking, analysis or other mundane tasks. That’s where machine learning can help.

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A Mother’s Day movie, made for you

by | May 4, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

Dear Mom,

Becoming a parent has given me a new perspective on the important role you played in my life. As a small tribute to you, and all the other mothers out there, we’re launching Mother’s Day movies—a new feature in Google Photos that makes it super easy to make a movie that celebrates a mom.

Starting today, people can go to photos.google.com/mothersday, pick a mom and kids, and then Google Photos does the rest. It automatically chooses the best photos of the mother and children, and sets it all to music to make a personalized movie.

People can …Read More

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