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The 5 best moves you can make to optimize your benefits during 2024 open enrollment

By Emily Guy Birken November 18, 2023 Employment benefits, from insurance to retirement vehicles, are an important part of most compensation packages, above and beyond a paycheck. In fact, 54.3% of Americans receive health insurance through an employer, and 73% of workers have access to retirement benefits at work. But employers make regular changes to … Continue reading The 5 best moves you can make to optimize your benefits during 2024 open enrollment

SAP moves to a composable commerce offering

Composability is the latest stage on SAP’s commerce journey along with a range of new composable storefronts. Kim Davis on March 27, 2023  Global software giant SAP has announced a new Commerce Cloud composable offering, providing merchants new levels of flexibility and a range of choices between the complete Commerce Cloud package and specific applications … Continue reading SAP moves to a composable commerce offering

Microsoft Moves Into New Era Of Advertising, Automation

Microsoft Moves Into New Era Of Advertising, Automation by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, March 16, 2023 Microsoft will integrate the technology behind ChatGPT into its workplace software, upgrading PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook with new capabilities in its latest move to win the race toward automation and artificial intelligence across business products and advertising. The company … Continue reading Microsoft Moves Into New Era Of Advertising, Automation

Yahoo Moves Ad-Tech Biz To Amazon Web Services To Reduce IT Costs

Yahoo Moves Ad-Tech Biz To Amazon Web Services To Reduce IT Costs by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, December 1, 2022 Yahoo has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS), as a preferred public cloud provider for its advertising-technology business Yahoo Ad Tech. The company views the migration as part of the business’s ongoing digital transformation strategy to reduce … Continue reading Yahoo Moves Ad-Tech Biz To Amazon Web Services To Reduce IT Costs

Microsoft Moves Deep Into Content Creation, Integrates Designer App Into Edge, Bing

Microsoft Moves Deep Into Content Creation, Integrates Designer App Into Edge, Bing by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, October 12, 2022 Microsoft brought attention to new graphic design apps on Wednesday. Designer, in Microsoft 365, features artificial intelligence (AI)-image generation powered by DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s AI-powered system that generates images from text by bringing it to first-party … Continue reading Microsoft Moves Deep Into Content Creation, Integrates Designer App Into Edge, Bing

Brands’ cost-cutting moves are costing them customers

62% of U.S. consumers say they’ll stop buying from brands that engage in shrinkflation. Constantine von Hoffman on July 25, 2022 CPG brands cutting quantity or quality to bolster earnings are enraging customers. Nearly two-thirds of customers (62%) say they’ll stop buying from brands who do this, according to a new Gartner report. More than … Continue reading Brands’ cost-cutting moves are costing them customers

Amazon Reportedly Moves Deeper Into Local Ads, Creates ‘Start-Up’ Ad Business

Amazon Reportedly Moves Deeper Into Local Ads, Creates ‘Start-Up’ Ad Business by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, June 8, 2022 Amazon has reportedly begun to focus more on local ads in an effort to compete with Google and its “near me” approach. One way is to support consumers through Amazon Fresh, a version of Whole Foods that … Continue reading Amazon Reportedly Moves Deeper Into Local Ads, Creates ‘Start-Up’ Ad Business

Predicting Creative Performance Moves Campaigns Into 2021

Predicting Creative Performance Moves Campaigns Into 2021 by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, November 20, 2020 What if marketers could predict the outcome of their creative in advertisements long before a campaign begins? Pattern89 believes it can by analyzing about 200 billion data points, across Facebook and Instagram, along with more than 49,000 dimensions per piece based … Continue reading Predicting Creative Performance Moves Campaigns Into 2021

How to Craft a Messaging Platform that Moves Prospects to Action

Laura MacPherson — April 22, 2020 Human beings are wired to avoid loss. We fear change because it involves risk—a potential for loss. For this reason, many B2B buying decisions get put off (or worse, permanently tabled). A buying decision involves change. There’s inherent risk. If a purchase doesn’t work out well, the decision-maker could … Continue reading How to Craft a Messaging Platform that Moves Prospects to Action

Search Analytics Tool Moves Into Financial, Investor Markets

Search Analytics Tool Moves Into Financial, Investor Markets by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, April 19, 2019 As initial public offerings (IPOs) ignite with companies like Pinterest, Lyft, Uber and Slack executives taking their companies public, SimilarWeb — a provider of analytics related to the performance of websites and apps — has moved into the financial space with … Continue reading Search Analytics Tool Moves Into Financial, Investor Markets