If you’re in the ecommerce business, you already know that users often abandon their carts at the checkouts. In fact, studies indicate that the average rate of cart abandonment is 67.91%, although this can be as high as 80% in some cases. Annoying, right? Why are users doing that? Well, the answer lies in your...Read More
ATHENS, June 21 (Reuters) – Greece’s Public Power Corp. (PPC) agreed with Greek banks to refinance an outstanding syndicated bond of 1.2 billion euros ($1.39 billion) with a new five-year credit facility, the utility said on Thursday. PPC, hit by unpaid bills during years of austerity, agreed this month to refinance the loan on “satisfactory...Read More
Google Home and Chromecast users are susceptible to a location privacy leak. The bug was discovered in May, but Google declined to comment until recently, saying it would release an update to fix the problem in mid-July. Craig Young, a researcher with security firm Tripwire, found the bug that leaks extremely accurate location data about...Read More
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A display of the partnership between Google and Salesforce at Connections last week Credit: George Slefo Perhaps the most celebrated person at this year’s Salesforce Connections annual event was not someone famous, well-known in creative circles or a highly touted CMO. It was Kristin Bond, director of email marketing operations at Girl Scouts USA. Bond...Read More
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African cement producer PPC reported a more than two-fold jump in annual earnings on Monday, boosted by a strong performance in its African operations, including Zimbabwe. The company has pushed deeper into the rest of Africa as profit has slumped in its domestic market, building plants in Rwanda, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and...Read More
When it comes to its users—roughly 1.17 billion of them—there is very little Google doesn’t know. The company has worked hard to increase our dependency on its products by gathering information about what we want to see, and harnessing that data to streamline our experiences. Tools like predictive search (Google suggesting search queries based on...Read More
Pexels Search engines utilize their own algorithms to determine how to show the most relevant, trustworthy results to consumers who are searching for your services or products every second of the day. In layman’s terms, Google is one giant library of information. Your brand or business’s website is one book out of a million that...Read More
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