BENGALURU: Search engine giant Google will soon launch its’ Shopping’ tab in India, allowing users to search for products to buy and guiding them to merchant websites or ecommerce platforms for product enumerates, two people familiar with the company’s plans told ET.In the works for several months, the Shopping tab …
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Pinterest is continuing its push into video as a potential avenue for advertisers by today saying that it will offer advertisers a promoted video tool that takes up the width of the entire screen. While Pinterest normally offers users a grid that they can flip through — compressing a lot …
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