Amazon and Apple’s Payments Growth Shows PayPal Is Facing Stiffer Competition

Though its shares — and back when it was a part of eBay , eBay’s shares — have dipped a number of times on news that a tech giant is trying to muscle in on its turf, the company has kept delivering 20%-plus payment volume growth like clockwork. But while any talk of a would-be “PayPal-killer” merits skepticism, the company does arguably face a tougher competitive environment than any time in recent history.

JustWatch can help you find where to legally watch movies

New Delhi, Feb 8 – With more Indian millennials aggressively migrating to video-on-demand platforms to watch premium content, JustWatch — a Berlin based start-up — offers a search engine to help viewers find where to legally watch their favourite movies and television series online. But, for an international over-the-top content player vying to create a space and make it big in the Indian market, providing local content is equally important, said David Croye, Founder and CEO at JustWatch, told IANS in an e-mail interview.

Content Audits and Their Relevance

The term “content marketing” has become so common in marketing circles that many in the industry may be growing tired of it. For those folks, unfortunately, its prevalence is not likely to diminish any time soon.

3 Stocks We’re Never Selling

We Fools are constantly on the hunt for winning stock ideas that we believe will generate strong returns for years on end. When we think we have identified a winning business, we like to buy it and hang on to it through thick and thin.

Sohu.com to Report Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Financial Results on February 21, 2017

The live webcast and archive of the conference call will be available on the Investor Relations section of Sohu’s website at http://investors.sohu.com/ . premier online brand and indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of web properties and community based/web 2.0 products which offer the vast Sohu user community a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication.

Most Googled car brand in the world is…

Ever wondered which are the most Googled car brands in the world? British parts company Quickco has just answered those questions and Toyota enjoys a dominant lead, although it must be noted that the ranking is based on the number of countries rather than the actual number of people that searched for that particular brand. While most of Africa searched for Toyotas more than any other brand, South Africans didn’t get that memo, rather opting to type Mercedes-Benz into their search engines, as did our neighbours in Namibia and Botswana.

Google’s New Pixel Smartphone Shines

The Pixel phone, Google’s answer to Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy, is off to a promising start — but might have done even better had Google managed consumer demand as smartly as the device’s sleek design. Although Google hasn’t released sales figures, industry researchers say the Pixel [pictured above] has been a hot item since its October debut was greeted with mostly glowing reviews and the biggest marketing blitz in Google’s 18-year history.

Amazon explores legal options against Trump’s immigration ban

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo Some of the world’s biggest tech companies have criticized President Trump’s executive order to temporarily ban citizens and refugees from seven Muslim countries from entering the United States.

Gap envisions a future with augmented reality ‘dressing rooms’

Fashion brands know that experimenting with tech is imperative, whether it be to enhance the retail experience or introduce fans to the concept of virtual reality. For Gap Inc., which, in addition to its eponymous label owns Banana Republic, Old Navy, Athleta and Intermix, technology has never played a major role in its business strategy.

How YouTube and mobile search drove revenue for Google’s parent company

Letters spell the word ‘Alphabet’ as they are seen on a computer screen with a Google search page in this photo illustration taken in Paris in 2015. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, reported $26.06 billion in total revenue in 2016, a 22 percent increase over 2015’s revenue of $21.33 billion, with their mobile search engine and YouTube as the primary revenue-driving subsidiaries of the online giant.

Schrute Bucks, Stanley Nickels And Bitcoins

There is a great episode of the American version of The Office in which Dwight Schrute, Assistant to the Regional Manager at Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch, creates an incentive program focused around “Schrute bucks”. An exchange with grumpy salesman Stanley Hudson follows: Dwight: Don’t you want to earn Schrute bucks? Stanley: No.

What is technical SEO? And why is it important?

Technical search engine optimisation describes the efforts of a webmaster to ensure their website is compatible with search engine guidelines, and can be indexed and ranked for keyphrase searches accordingly. Whilst marketers perhaps best understand the implications of getting SEO wrong, it is often developers that implement technical SEO decisions.

How Vulnerable Is Pokemon GO to Hacks?

But while parent company Nintendo has enjoyed rising stock and players have enjoyed the game, there has been a darker side to this augmented reality app. There have been numerous reports of criminal activities related to PokA mon Go ranging from armed robbery to phone snatching of distracted players.

Zach Sackett Joins Archer as Interactive Developer

Archer Communications, Inc., an integrated marketing communications firm located in Rochester, NY, is pleased to announce that Zach Sackett has joined the team as an Interactive Developer. “Zach brings fresh creativity and strong dedication to the team,” says Brandon Capwell, VP and Director of Design and Development at Archer.

Boom in Cloud powers results of Microsoft, Intel and Alphabet

Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel, which all posted quarterly results Thursday, reinforced what’s become a truism in technology: the biggest growth is in businesses that deliver computing over the internet. Microsoft topped projections on the strength of rising customer sign-ups for its cloud offerings like Azure, which saw revenue almost double.

How Voice Search Is Changing

Voice search has been around for longer than most people realize. It feels like the technology has only been around for a couple of years, but in reality, Google voice search first came out in 2002 .

Ng: Artificial intelligence in real life

ONE of the things that is particularly worrying to the BPO industry of the Philippines right now is the strong protectionist stance of the new US president Donald Trump. Apparently, he is zealous to make America first, and frowns on many attempts of outsourcing various manufacturing and service jobs outside the United States.

Better Buy: Baidu, Inc. vs. Facebook

The divergent fortunes of Facebook and Baidu shares over the past year only reinforce their apparent differences. However, though their core businesses today touch different areas of the global technology market, Facebook and Baidu are united in their ongoing efforts to shape some of technology’s most important future growth markets.

Google’s Pixel phone shines despite misgauging demand

The Pixel phone, Google’s answer to Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy, is off to a promising start – but might have done even better had Google managed consumer demand as smartly as the device’s sleek design. Although Google hasn’t released sales figures, industry researchers say the Pixel has been a hot item since its October release was greeted with mostly glowing reviews and the biggest marketing blitz in Google’s 18-year history.

Genealogy site raises …

FamilyTreeNow.com, a free genealogy site, garnered attention and criticism for the free data it makes available about individuals, but it’s all easy to find online elsewhere. Experts say it’s hard to restore privacy that U.S. law has not protected.

Google I/O 2017: When is it, where to watch, and what to expect

Google holds an annual conference for developers, engineers, executives, and the media — so that it can discuss all-things Google and Android-related. Developers and engineers use information from this show to get their apps and products up to date with Google’s latest innovation, while the rest of us drool and look forward to what’s coming in the months ahead.

Ask the Expert: Does Your Company Really Need to Focus on SEO?

Firstly, let’s break down SEO as I think businesses and marketers have a tendency to overcomplicate it, which results in an overwhelming feeling of “this isn’t for us” or “we don’t have the expertise/time for this.” Actually, SEO is quite simple when you dispel the SEO myths and break it down to its core fundamentals: on-site and offsite .

Baidu focuses on AI as founder Robin Li hires new management team

After a turbulent 2016, during which 12 per cent was wiped off Baidu Inc’s market value, founder Robin Li needs all the help he can get to put the dominant search engine operator in the world’s largest internet market back on track. During the past four weeks Li has rehired Melissa Ma, his wife and lifelong business partner, and poached at least three executives from Microsoft, Xiaomi and a Chinese local startup to join his senior management team, underscoring the company’s push to regain its traction after an advertising scandal in May destroyed consumer confidence and provoked a rare rebuke from the Chinese government.

Local marketing initiatives boost franchises

In addition to the franchisor’s marketing efforts, success comes when a franchisee markets his or her business among the local community and success or failure of retail franchises primarily depends upon such local marketing initiatives. Sally J’Arlette-Joy, founder of Sandwich Baron, says the key to success lies in a corporate marketing strategy dovetailing with a franchisee’s local marketing strategy.

Alibaba Raises Forecast as Chinese Consumers Continue to Spend

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. raised its full-year sales forecast after quarterly results beat estimates, as Chinese spending stays strong and the company wrings revenue from fledgling areas such as cloud computing, entertainment and search. China’s biggest e-commerce company increased its projection for fiscal 2017 revenue growth to 53 percent, from 48 percent previously. That may help assuage investors concerned that a deceleration in the world’s second-largest economy is curtailing Alibaba’s main online commerce business.