Google has begun using Duplex, its AI chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone, to contact businesses about the status of certain “in-demand” items like toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and cleaning solutions. As reflected in an update to a support webpage and confirmed to VentureBeat by a spokesperson via email, the company is …
In less than two months, covid-19 created arguably the world’s largest collective shift in social activity and working practices. Research firm Global Workplace Analytics estimated in a 2018 report that 4.3 million people in the US worked remotely, representing just 3.2% of the country’s workforce. In a March 2020 poll of 375 executives by MIT …
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It’s far too early in the coronavirus pandemic to be making absolute statements on what the world will look like once the outbreak passes, whenever that may be. With the shock that followed the rapid scale of the pandemic’s spread, it’s easy to expect an upheaval of everything we once took for granted. But rather …
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A critical privilege escalation vulnerability found in the WordPress SEO Plugin – Rank Math plugin can allow attackers to give administrator privileges to any registered user on one of the 200,000 sites with active installations if left unpatched. Rank Math is a WordPress plugin described by its developers as ‘the Swiss army knife of WordPress SEO’ …
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Imagine driving a car with no speedometer, no fuel gauge and no warning lights. The car might still function, but without those critical indicators, it would only be a matter of time before you run out of gas, blow a tire or get pulled over. Just like a car, businesses using Twitter need a dashboard …
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For the latest in consumer and industry news, top trends and market perspectives, stay tuned to Mintel News featuring commentary from Mintel’s team of global category analysts. March 24th, 2020March 24th, 2020 Whether commuting on the train, running in the park, or sitting at your desk, Mintel’s podcast series ‘Little Conversation’ brings you fresh ideas, …
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New Forbes8 Digital Summit to serve critical learning moments in the midst of mass event cancellation In light of the massive event and conference cancellations and postponements due to coronavirus, the team at Forbes8 have moved quickly to create and launch a FREE digital summit to support businesses needs right now. Many entrepreneurs have relied …
Tuesday 17 March 2020, 7:02 pm Sustaining a future-focused brand is critical to driving buyer consideration, recommendation, and trust. However, brand tracking tends to focus on current performance and less on future trends. Toluna has developed a brand tracking approach that allows both speed and automation. Learn how to apply these learnings to your company …
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On March 9, we launched the update of one of our most read and anticipated reports, “The Forrester Wave™: Governance, Risk, And Compliance Platforms, Q1 2020.” It represents at least six months of work for the lead analysts (Alla Valente and Renee Murphy) and the research director (Amy DeMartine). The 2018 version of this Wave …
This year is likely the last one ever in which you can say that more than half the planet is not on social media. Hootsuite just released a massive digital state of the union report. Some of the high-level findings: 5.2 billion of us now have phones globally 4.5 billion are connected to the internet …
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Each year literally hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and business owners will develop a business plan. Most will incorporate the ten key sections most business plan templates include. But even then, most miss two ingredients that are crucial, particularly if you are seeking outside funding for your plan. Let’s go through these two items so …
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Throughout all of 2017, HubSpot experienced something that had never happened before — our blog’s monthly traffic flattened. Even worse, it started to decline. So after months of stressing over the mysterious cause of our blog’s traffic plateau, we decided to sit down, chug a bunch of coffee, and find the culprit.
