The Penny Pinchers of the Cloud
Cloud computing has made Web startups cheaper than ever to run. Some organizations are now learning anew how to be budget-conscious.As chief technology officer for Barack Obama’s last campaign, Harper...
View ArticlePinterest’s Founder: Algorithms Don’t Know What You Want
CEO Ben Silbermann says Pinterest is built on the idea that crowds of people are best at finding content that consumers care about.In 2012 the startup Pinterest became a peer of more established social...
View ArticleEmTech Digital: Pinterest’s Bid to Reinvent Online Shopping
Buy buttons are coming to Pinterest and will reinvent online commerce, the company claims.Today people go on Pinterest to populate digital scrapbooks with “pins” that are like bookmarks for items from...
View ArticleAI Advances Make It Possible to Search, Shop with Images
Deep learning software has dramatically improved image recognition tools. Pinterest and Shoes.com are testing it out on shoppers.The Web has changed a lot in the past 20 years, but text search boxes...
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