Month: October 2018

Grocery chain Kroger and pharmacy chain Walgreens are teaming up on a pilot in which shoppers near 13 Walgreen locations in Northern Kentucky will be able to pick up their online Kroger orders at Walgreens–and Walgreens will begin offering grocery items from Kroger’s Our Brands line. Kroger is touting the partnership as a “one-stop shopping…

Time’s Up has named Lisa Borders as its first president and CEO. Borders will step down from her current role as president of the WNBA to take on the role at the beginning of November. “Time’s Up is both a natural extension and a bold advancement of the work I have been doing for the…

Facebook introduced new tools and programs to help combat cyberbullying and harassment on the social network, including an easier way to deal with multiple comments simultaneously. Global head of safety Antigone Davis detailed the social network’s new comment moderation process in a Newsroom post, saying that people can now hide or delete multiple comments at…

Foursquare closed a $33 million Series F equity funding round led by Simon Ventures, Naver and longtime backer Union Square Ventures. The company said the first close of $25 million took place last Friday, and it anticipates a secondary close with the remaining $8 million by year-end. Simon Ventures is a retail- and tech-focused firm…

Twitter provided an update on steps that it is taking to help protect the integrity of the upcoming midterm elections in the U.S. Vice president of trust and safety Del Harvey and head of site integrity Yoel Roth detailed developments across three areas: Twitter Rules; detection and enforcement; and product improvement. Twitter Rules Harvey and…

Just three-in-ten Catholic adults say Francis is doing an excellent or good job addressing the sex abuse scandal, down 14 points from this January and 24 points since 2015.

The post Confidence in Pope Francis Down Sharply in U.S. appeared first on Pew Research Center.

For the second time this year, hackers have attacked millions of Facebook accounts. The social network announced last week that about 50 million users were recently hacked. The hacking occurred because of a flaw in Facebook’s “View As” feature, which allows you to see your profile as others do. Users can type in a person’s…

At Brandweek, one view shared by brand marketers, consultancies and investors alike is the notion of understanding and appreciating how consumers think and behave. But the application of machine learning and data versus the human touch is far from binary–it takes a combination of the two to fully understand a consumers’ intent. That’s where BlackRock…

Beauty is big business: In 2017, it was valued at over $532 billion, according to Orbis Research. That’s thanks in large part to disruptors in the space, like Glossier and Drunk Elephant. But the latest wave of brands shaking up the beauty world are bringing with them a new trend: personalization. Companies like Prose, Belle…

I have been lucky enough to be involved in both great advertising and some great vandalism. They are a lot more alike than you might think. Like the pumpkin-smashing and late-night egg-throwing barrages we perpetrated in 1960s Rhode Island, great advertising is shocking, to the point and still there the next day. The best advertising…