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Google is shutting down Allo Google has officially announced that it’s shutting down Allo, ending the run of yet another failed Google chat app experiment. The news isn’t entirely unsurprising, given that Google had already paused investment in Allo back in April. Allo will “continue to work through March 2019,” Google says, and users will…
A Look at the Future of Chatbots in Customer Service Many start-ups and savvy companies are in a quest to cut operational costs. They are now incorporating interactive agents into their daily operations, communication with customers and sales processes. The ways that chatbots help businesses include improve customer service, automate online purchases, better customer communication, improve…
YouTube and National Geographic team up for three VR series National Geographic and YouTube are teaming up on three VR projects, the first of which is set to debut on December 11th. The virtual reality series will add to YouTube’s already large collection of VR content. The first project is a four-part series called The…
South Indian Government’s ‘Innovation Society’ to Promote Blockchain Development Andraha Pradesh has already been using blockchain tech for keeping land records as well as vehicle titles. In many ways this puts them far ahead of most western jurisdictions, where government interaction with blockchain has so far been to “study,” regulate, or prosecute it, without any…
Yandex gets in the smartphone game The Google of Russia” is a fairly apt description, as far as those things go. Yandex has its hand in just about everything internet in its native Russia. Recent additions include a Prime-style service, a smart speaker and, yes, self-driving cars. So it was really only a matter of…
How Google Thinks: SEO Done The Right Way People are always on the lookout for the search engine optimization (SEO) trick that will propel them to the top of a Google Search results page. Obviously, this does not exist, but if there were one SEO factor that summed it up, then it would be to design…
Big Brands And Political Activism: What Do Marketers Think? Brand political activism feels fresh and new in an era of pervasive social media and a president who never tires of Twitter. Companies that decades ago would have maintained a studied silence are now weighing in hard on issues ranging from gun violence to immigration and…
Blockchain Platforms vs. Governments and Facebook We’re living at a time of unprecedented concern over identity. Fears abound that our personal data is being abused by distant third-parties, while this data has become more valuable to us at a time when our identities and the identity politics we base around them have become more central to…
13 Things Every CEO Needs to Understand About Search Engine Optimization SEO Organic search engine optimization (SEO) has enough specialization and technical aspects that it can be overwhelming to the C-suite. The mysterious nature of SEO can lead to misunderstanding and frustration for CEOs. Understanding the high-level principles and some of the important aspects of SEO…
How to completely delete Facebook from your life So you’ve had it with endless scrolling through the News Feed, notifications that wake you up in the middle of the night, memories that remind you how little your life has changed over the years, and groups that are just too big and you don’t even know…