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Facebook Asks Users to Bare Souls Over Ad Hiding

Facebook on Thursday updated its ad policy with two changes. One gives users the option of explaining why they don't want to see a specific ad in their News Feed when they click to hide the ad. The second update takes this new policy a step further by giving more weight to the feedback provided from users who rarely hide ads. ...

Salesforce Issues Dyre Warning

Salesforce.com this week notified its customers that the Dyre malware, which typically targets customers of large financial institutions, might have been tweaked to target some Salesforce users as well. ...

Amazon’s Hot Sale Stokes Fire Phone Interest

Amazon on Monday dropped the price of its 32-gigabyte Fire Phone to a mere 99 US cents from its original $199, with a two-year contract. The 64-gigabyte version now sells for $99, down from its launch price of $299. ...

Twitter Cautiously Experiments With Buy Button

Twitter on Monday began testing a new Buy button with a small percentage of its users in the U.S. -- one of the first steps in a larger initiative to build purchase functionality into the service. ...

OPINION

Salesforce’s Investment Bodes Well for the Mobile IoC

Salesforce.com's vision of the Internet of Customers is getting clearer, and it has a decidedly mobile orientation. ...

YouTube Does Social Media Marketing Best

It is a given that a marketing campaign must include a social media element -- especially when a brand is rolling out a new product. What is less certain is on which channel the brand should focus its time and resources. ...

Alibaba’s IPO Will Blast Mobile Retail Into Hyperdrive

By all indications, the long-awaited, much anticipated initial public offering of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding is imminent. Granted, similar rumors this spring turned out to be groundless, but this time the drumbeats for the IPO are louder and more insistent ...

Home Depot All But Confirms Doozy of a Data Breach

Home Depot may have experienced a massive security breach -- possibly on a greater scale than last year's Target breach, which affected an estimated 110 million people. ...

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Xactly Unlocks Storehouse of Insights

Following years of development, Xactly has made Xactly Insights generally available. The product compiles the compensation data of all the companies that use Xactly's products, aggregates and anonymizes that data, and then gives users access to it. Participating companies opt in, fully aware of how their data is being used. ...

How to Make a Drone Delivery: Google’s Winging It

Google on Thursday introduced Project Wing, a drone-based delivery project it has been working on quietly for the past two years. Members of the Google[x] team (aka "Moonshots") recently held field tests of the technology in Australia. ...

American Airlines Veers Out of Orbitz

American Airlines this week withdrew its flight content from Orbitz Worldwide's websites, which include Orbitz.com, ebookers.com and CheapTickets.com. The companies are locked in a booking fee dispute. ...

Salesforce.com Engulfs Communities in Community Cloud

Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced the debut of the Salesforce1 Community Cloud. The product is launching as a new division for Salesforce.com, on par with its Sales, Service and Marketing Cloud offerings, said Lisa Hammitt, vice president of business operations for Salesforce1 Community Cloud. ...

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Qvidian Upgrades Help Sales Pros Pick Up the Pace

Qvidian has updated its Sales Playbooks & Analytics platform with features that help reps do a better job of gleaning pertinent information from the buyer in the initial sales approach. It then incorporates that information into the CRM system. ...

Amazon Pulls a Twitch on Google

Amazon on Monday announced an agreement to acquire Twitch Interactive, a real-time video platform for gamers. Prior to the disclosure, rumors had been building that it was on track to snatch Twitch from Google, which reportedly had been very close to buying it. ...

Nextdoor Offers Digital Path to Neighborliness

A mother in Walnut Creek, California, recently placed an expensive order for baby formula and diapers that never arrived. Subsequent investigation showed that the package had been delivered but snatched from her doorstep ...

Salesforce Stock Climbs on Great Expectations

Salesforce.com on Thursday reported a second-quarter loss of about 10 US cents per share -- but hey, who's counting? Not investors, apparently, who drove up the price of the CRM giant's stock 7.6 percent by market close Friday. Certainly not Wall Street analysts like Deutsche Bank, which promptly raised its target price for the company to $70.00 per share, pointing to a potential upside of 25.65 percent...

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It’s Time Companies Put Mobile First

A growing number of consumers are becoming mobile-first or even mobile-only, so why not businesses? Granted, it is hard to image the company whose computing power and data could be accessed and manipulated only through a mobile device. However, a company that gives mobile the same status and resources as its other IT initiatives? That is a little easier to envision.

Ballmer Leaves Microsoft for Hoop Dream

Steve Ballmer on Tuesday severed the last of his official ties with Microsoft -- he resigned from the board of directors. Ballmer gave up his CEO role in February. ...

Google Straps On Jetpac to Take Search to New Heights

Google has acquired Jetpac, according to a statement that appeared Friday on the Jetpac website ...

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Gryphon Sales Intelligence Analyzes KPIs

Gryphon Networks has had a presence in the sales intelligence and marketing compliance space for several years, primarily working through carriers such as Verizon Wireless and Quest. About two years ago, however, the company tweaked its direction after President and CEO Jeffrey Fotta noticed a curious fact during a client call. ...

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