MarTech Today: Salesforce’s Commerce Cloud, Google AMP bug & newest Google My Business API

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.

From Marketing Land:

• Salesforce launches its Commerce Cloud
  Sep 27, 2016 by Barry Levine
  The newest cloud, based on the recent Demandware acquisition, positions the tech giant for handling transactions in physical stores as well as online.
  
• Google iOS search app adds Touch ID for reentering your private searches
  Sep 27, 2016 by Barry Schwartz
  Google’s iOS search app can unlock your incognito mode private searches using Touch ID.
  
• Google AMP breaks the desktop search results
  Sep 27, 2016 by Barry Schwartz
  Looks like a bug with Google’s desktop search results were caused by accelerated mobile pages showing up in the desktop results.
  
• Google News ‘Lite’ mode app launches for slower internet connections
  Sep 27, 2016 by Barry Schwartz
  A new ‘lite’ mode is available in India for the Google News Android app. It uses one-third of the data of the full mode.
  
• Google My Business API adds features in version 3.1
  Sep 27, 2016 by Barry Schwartz
  Version 3.1 of the Google My Business API is now out. Here is what is new.
  

From Around The Web:

• Beyond the Lab: Gathering Holistic, Qualitative User Experience Data, www.uxmatters.com
• Infer’s Artificial Intelligence Platform for Sales and Marketing Now Powers the Industry’s Largest Customer Community, www.infer.com
• Adtech and martech are still worlds apart, and that’s a big problem, venturebeat.com
• Confessions of an ad tech veteran: “You have no idea how much should be charged”, digiday.com
• Messaging Apps Vary Widely When It Comes to Privacy, www.wsj.com
• YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers, youtube.googleblog.com

About The Author

Barry Levine

Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.