Viewing the agenda for our upcoming MarTech®Conference in Boston this October, a theme emerges: collaboration and integration. As martech’s expansion reaches critical mass, we’re seeing an age of acquisitions and mergers, consolidations and partnerships. Integration between previously siloed groups of marketers and tech fits right into this theme. The New York Times’ Pamela Della Motta,…
On Friday, Twitter began alerting some users that their direct messages or protected tweets may have been sent to Twitter developers who were not authorized to receive them due to a bug identified nearly two weeks ago. The company says it identified the bug on Monday, September 10. What happened? In a developer notice posted…
Adobe has confirmed it is acquiring Marketo Inc. for $4.75 billion, with the deal expected to close during the fourth quarter of Adobe’s 2018 fiscal year. Last week, unnamed sources had revealed to Reuters that Adobe was in negotiations to purchase Marketo, but neither company would comment at the time. Why marketers should care Adobe’s…
Bloomua / Shutterstock.com In a letter to members of the Senate Commerce Committee, Google acknowledged that it allows app developers to scan and compile details from Gmail messages, including details about purchases, travel and which other people users interact with. Google says as long as apps clearly disclose this collection, they are free to request…
A Guide To Embracing Challenges And Excelling At Your UX Design Internship A Guide To Embracing Challenges And Excelling At Your UX Design Internship Erica Chen 2018-09-21T14:15:20+02:00 2018-09-21T12:24:17+00:00 This is the story about my user design internship. I’m not saying that your internship is going to be anything like mine. In fact, if there’s one…
Passion drives you to become a more accomplished marketer, grow your career and go the extra mile. You’re the reason we created the SMX® East workshop series. Join us for a training experience loaded with actionable SEO, SEM and social media advertising tactics. We’re hosting four in-depth workshops Tuesday, October 23. Choose from: Advanced SEO…
Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s competition commissioner, said on Wednesday that the oversight agency is looking into Amazon’s business practices. Why? While acknowledging that hosting third-party merchants provided a benefit for smaller businesses and collecting data had legitimate uses such as improving customer service, she also noted that access to third-party data may give Amazon…
Building A PWA Using Angular 6 Building A PWA Using Angular 6 Ahmed Bouchefra 2018-09-20T13:35:23+02:00 2018-09-20T11:42:41+00:00 In this tutorial, we’ll be using the latest Angular 6 to build a PWA by implementing the core tenets that make a PWA. We’ll start by creating a front-end web application that consumes a JSON API. For this matter,…
Shopify unveiled Monday new tools for their vendors to create augmented reality (AR) experiences. The announcement comes on the heels of Apple’s Monday release of iOS 12, which includes new functionality that provides AR experiences from within a web browser. Shopify AR provides businesses with a toolkit to create their own AR experiences, and includes…
Visual Studio Live Share Can Do That? Visual Studio Live Share Can Do That? Burke Holland 2018-09-19T13:30:17+02:00 2018-09-19T11:39:28+00:00 A few months ago, Microsoft released its free Visual Studio (VS) Live Share service. VS Live Share is Google Docs level collaboration for code. Multiple developers can collaborate on the same file at the same time without…
