Since eight years, our monthly desktop wallpapers challenge is a Smashing favorite that wouldn’t be possible without the tireless efforts of talented designers and artists from across the globe. On a quest to cater for wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd, we challenge you, the design community, to get your…
Twitter Ads Manager has been a bit of a bear to navigate since inception. The ability to quickly parse campaigns and see the metrics you’d like simply haven’t existed. This is soon changing, thanks to a big global upgrade that will allow advertisers to optimize their campaigns in a much more flexible fashion. The first…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Much needed filters & custom metrics make their way to Twitter Ads Manager reportingJul 29, 2016 by Greg Finn A new set of tools will allow Twitter Ads Manager users to…
Baidu, China’s largest search engine with over 80% of marketshare in that country, has had it’s worse quarter in terms of profit since their IPO over 11 years ago. In their Q2 2016 earnings report their net income dropped by 34% from the previous period. They still are very profitable, showing a net income of…
Keeping online and brick-and-mortar stores in sync is one of the biggest challenges for modern retailers, especially smaller ones. To help out, Automattic’s ecommerce platform WooCommerce has announced it is now integrated with offline payments platform Square. In a blog post announcing the extension, Automattic Content Manager Nichole Kohler noted that this has been the…
After a Q1 that disappointed investors somewhat, Google parent Alphabet delivered a big quarter yesterday. The company announced revenues of $21.5 billion, which represented 21 percent growth year-over-year and beat analysts’ consensus estimates by more than $700 million. Paid clicks were up nearly 30 percent, which was also an expectations beat. However, CPCs were off…
Oracle announced today it has agreed to purchase NetSuite, a cloud-based provider of software for running a business, including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and e-commerce. At $109 per share in cash, the deal is valued at $9.3 billion. In a statement, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd described the two companies’ cloud applications as “complementary,”…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Oracle buys NetSuite for $9.3 billionJul 28, 2016 by Barry Levine This latest acquisition enlarges Oracle’s family of cloud-based products with NetSuite’s business services, targeted at midsized companies. “Webinars for Dummies”…
Amazon announced its Q2 2016 earnings, reporting $30.4 billion for the quarter – a 31% jump over its Q2 2015 revenue. As reported earlier this month, this year’s Amazon Prime Day was the biggest day ever for Amazon, with Prime Day worldwide orders up more then 60 percent over last year’s Prime Day. Other highlights…
Following its quarterly earnings earlier this week, Apple announced that it had sold its billionth iPhone. Introduced in January 2007, the device is nearing its 10th anniversary. Separately, IDC released quarterly smartphone market-share estimates. Apple was the second largest handset maker globally, behind Samsung. According to the firm, Apple volume was down 15 percent, while…
