Protecting you against phishing
As many email users know, phishing attacks—or emails that impersonate a trusted source to trick users into sharing information—are a pervasive problem. If you use Gmail, you can rest assured that every day, millions of phishing emails are blocked from ever reaching your inbox.
This week, we defended against an email phishing campaign that tricked some of our users into inadvertently granting access to their contact information, with the intent to spread more phishing emails. We took quick action to revoke all access granted to the attacker as well as steps to reduce and prevent harm from future …Read More
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5 Social Media Innovations That Are Changing the Retail Industry
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
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
From the Brandcast stage: New star-studded shows for audiences around the globe
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How machine learning in G Suite makes people more productive
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.
Machine learning algorithms observe …Read More
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