Facebookisation: Twitter is changing

Up to now, social network Twitter has focused on an unfiltered news stream…but these times appear to be over. Similarly to Facebook, particularly relevant Tweets disturb the chronological order. Even Tweets by people you don’t follow will reportedly turn up in your stream in the future.

Bye Bye Cookies: Facebook Atlas Marches onto the Display Advertising Battle Field

Advertising displayed for the individual user – we’ve got that already: the Google display network is still doing good work. But with the advertising network Atlas, Facebook also wants to display advertising…everywhere, not just on users’ newsfeeds. However, personalised advertising requires information on the user. Isn’t it practical that Facebook knows more than the name … Continue reading "Bye Bye Cookies: Facebook Atlas Marches onto the Display Advertising Battle Field"

We present: Handelskraft.com

Happily, e-commerce is not limited to German speaking countries, but is a global branch. This is why reaching English speaking Handelskraft fans in the future is so important to us. We are now regularly publishing articles on Handelskraft.com with the help of our professional translator Ruth Barratt-Peacock.

Getting there faster: digital transformation in traffic

Cars are already driving-computers. But digital transformation will influence the pleasure of driving in the future even more strongly. There are already attempts to warn drivers with live traffic services and offer them alternative routes. Google has gone a step further with the self-driving car – a car which is steered by a computer.  

B2B too difficult to crack? Google shopping for suppliers is offline

As I learned from Martin Groß-Albenhausen at the last Handelskraft B2B commerce breakfast, Google Shopping for Suppliers has been history since the 20th of June. The B2B aspirations of Google (Google Shopping for Suppliers) and Amazon (Amazon Supply) don’t seem to have taken off as well as (even we) expected.

Bitkom: Online in marketing budget soon to be as important as trade fairs

The digital transformation of companies is increasingly manifesting itself in the marketing budget. Proportionally more and more is flowing into online measures and according to Bitkom this will keep increasing. According to a survey among marketing staff in ITK companies, on average five percent of the entire turn-over was spent on marketing measures in the … Continue reading "Bitkom: Online in marketing budget soon to be as important as trade fairs"