Pinterest’s Chief Product Officer Evan Sharp and CEO Ben Silbermann Pinterest debuted on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday under the ticker symbol PINS. The stock climbed 28.4% over the course of the day, with a market cap of nearly $13 billion. Following the company’s IPO, CEO Ben Silbermann told CNBC that Pinterest is […]
Pinterest has recruited Walmart’s former CTO Jeremy King as its new head of engineering. King will lead the team responsible for building Pinterest’s visual search engine and report to CEO Ben Silbermann. Why you should care As Pinterest closes in on an IPO date, the social network is beefing up its e-commerce chops. Adding King
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After suspending Cambridge Analytica from its platform in March, Facebook’s data management issues remained the lead social media news story throughout 2018. The company’s constant stream of user privacy challenges left little space for other social platforms to make waves — but, some still managed. Twitter put its focus on election integrity and performed a
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“Isn’t Pinterest just for bloggers?” I hear this question all the time when I mention Pinterest marketing, typically from digital marketers, search engine optimization (SEO) experts and your typical horde of haters. And my usual response is usually along the lines of… “Maybe. So?” After all, nearly every website out there has a blog in
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Pinterest is testing a new wider-framed Promoted Video ad format that will display at maximum width across both columns in a user’s home feed, follow tabs and mobile search rather than the standard width of one column. The wider video ads, available in both 16:9 and 1:1 aspect ratios, currently are being used by a
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com Pinterest is making a home for itself on Facebook’s Messenger. On Tuesday, the social-cum-search platform debuted a chatbot for the Facebook-owned messaging service and a new way for people to interact with pins shared on Messenger. Both moves make it possible to use Pinterest within Messenger without needing to use Pinterest outside
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rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com Pinterest’s president and advertising boss Tim Kendall will leave the company at the end of this year, a Pinterest spokesperson confirmed on Thursday after Recode reported the news. “Tim Kendall is leaving Pinterest after nearly six years to start his own venture. Tim has made important contributions to Pinterest and we are
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