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Google Experiences Difficulty Rolling Out Personalized News Feed On Android Devices

July 25, 2017
Google Rebrands Google Now To Feed
Google // July 20, 2017

Google’s Google Now, which provides mobile users information about things they are interested in, has rebranded the feature as Google Feed. According to a report, Feed is mainly focused on content, such as news articles and videos that mesh with what a user is interested...

iOS App Mimics Google Now Contextual Commerce Feature
Mobile Commerce // December 21, 2015

Just like you’ve always hoped (or maybe not), your iPhone can now be more like an Android phone — at least, in terms of the latter’s contextual commerce feature. Thanks to a recent update to mobile app Relevant, which promises “your daily routine all in one...

 Why Google’s Buy Button Isn’t About The “Buy”
In Depth // July 16, 2015

Another day, another buy button. It’s not that buy buttons aren’t cool, but it just feels like these days everyone’s got one. There are “proprietary” buy buttons. Facebook put one in Messenger and has added one for ads in the News Feed. Twitter has one....

Google Now Cards Branching Out Into 70 New Apps
Merchant Innovation // April 29, 2015

The number of Google Now partners is going up. Google premiered the Google Now cards program in January of this year with 40 third-party partners; another 70 are now looping in, bringing the total pool of Now partners up to 110. So which apps are...

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Google Experiences Difficulty Rolling Out Personalized News Feed On Android Devices

July 25, 2017
Google released a personalized, Facebook-like news feed for smartphones this week, but the company is having difficulty rolling it out on devices that run the company’s own Android mobile operating system. According to Recode, the news feed shows a stream of content based on people’s location, search histories and topics they’ve selected to follow. Traditionally, […]

Google Rebrands Google Now To Feed

July 20, 2017
Google’s Google Now, which provides mobile users information about things they are interested in, has rebranded the feature as Google Feed. According to a report, Feed is mainly focused on...

iOS App Mimics Google Now Contextual Commerce Feature

December 21, 2015
Just like you’ve always hoped (or maybe not), your iPhone can now be more like an Android phone — at least, in terms of the latter’s contextual commerce feature. Thanks to...

Google Now Cards Branching Out Into 70 New Apps

April 29, 2015
The number of Google Now partners is going up. Google premiered the Google Now cards program in January of this year with 40 third-party partners; another 70 are now looping...