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Artificial Intelligence

Marc Benioff Wants to Break the AI ‘Hypnosis,’ Urges Vendors to ‘Let the Customer at It’

Surrounded by journalists and industry analysts, Salesforce’s outspoken chief executive, Marc Benioff, revealed a secret about this year’s Dreamforce keynote address: It was only completed the prior night after he scrapped an earlier speech three weeks ago. By the time he took the stage, Benioff hadn’t even rehearsed it before addressing 10,000 in-person attendees and […]

Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s AI Strategy: Personal, Private and Made ‘for the Rest of Us’

The news AI watchers have been waiting for has arrived: Apple has revealed its technology strategy. But while its rivals have taken to the spotlight to unveil model after model and how they’re baking it into every one of their products, the iPhone maker seems to be taking a different approach, positioning it as “AI […]

Artificial Intelligence

This Week in AI: Nvidia’s ‘Bigger’ Platform Play; Microsoft’s AI Ambitions Goes Deep

Apple may deepen its relationship with Google with an AI partnership on the iPhone. Plus, a look at Nvidia’s hardware and software announcements from GTC and its push to stay relevant in the generative AI era. Finally, why did Microsoft poach two founders — and most of their team — from a startup it has […]

Generative AI

How AI Search Might Impact Your SEO

Digital marketers dedicated years to optimizing websites, creating content tailored to keyword phrases in attempts to outperform search engine algorithms. However, the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) in Microsoft Bing and Google may have completely transformed the landscape of search engine optimization (SEO), potentially playing a significant role in affecting site traffic. Making Search Work […]

Enterprise

Microsoft’s Push To Capitalize On LinkedIn’s Economic Graph

It’s commonplace to look at a company’s acquisition news and be puzzled by how the move fits in with the buyer’s vision. One need only look at LinkedIn’s acquisition by Microsoft in 2016 as an example. In its largest deal to date, the Redmond, Wash.-based technology company spent more than $26 billion to acquire a […]

Marketing

It’s All About Timing

Recent events have motivated me to write this blog post. Often times I find myself thinking about topics to write about and then soon enough, a new event happens whether it be a marketing campaign, news, technology development, etc that just reinforces my topic. This post is no exception to that rule. It’s all about […]

Marketing

A New Search Engine Is (Apparently) Born

So if you haven’t heard, the latest news coming from the technology world is that Microsoft is set to unveil its latest attempt at squashing the search engine giants Yahoo and Google. How exactly? By revamping their existing search engine with a totally new method of conducting search queries online. So dubbed “Bing”, it was […]

Marketing

A major shift in the search engine monopoly appears to be brewing

Apparently as first reported on Robert Scoble’s blog and repeated on Truemors.com (run by Guy Kawasaki), it appears that Microsoft’s new “alternative” strategy in working with Yahoo will wind up greatly decreasing Yahoo’s status as a search engine powerhouse and help elevate Microsoft’s search status to rival that of Google. Surely while software development company […]

Social Media

Amazingly WordPress is NOT perfect

WordPress recently released its latest version of its blogging software. I recently downloaded Version 2.5 and added it to both of my blogs: TheLetterTwo.com and CornerofWhatever.com. With previous iterations of WordPress (or WP for short), I’ve never had any problem “upgrading”. I simply downloaded the .zip file, unzip it and upload the files to my […]

General News

Jeff Raikes steps down from powerful spot in Microsoft

Okay, not necessarily Internet marketing-related, but still has some impact on the world of technology as it is now. Taken from MSNBC.com… Long-time Microsoft exec Raikes steps down Juniper Networks’ COO Elop named as replacement The Associated Press updated 7:18 p.m. ET, Thurs., Jan. 10, 2008 REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that Jeff […]