Instagram is testing ads in its Explore tab — here’s how marketers say it will change their ad spend

Lauren Johnson | Head of business Jim Squires said that the ad format will mimic the creative and targeting for ads in Instagram's main feed.

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'I thought I was getting punked': A Baskin-Robbins exec recounts being courted by Netflix to promote 'Stranger Things'

Ashley Rodriguez | Baskin-Robbins partnered with Netflix to create 'Stranger Things'-inspired ice cream flavors and an in-store experience tied to season three.

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Oracle lawsuit is giving Microsoft a very good chance of winning the $10 billion DoD JEDI contract instead of Amazon, analyst believes

Benjamin Pimentel | Amazon had been the favorite to win the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud deal, but an analyst says Oracle's legal action against the bid helped Microsoft.

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Here's what Amazon's, Microsoft's, and Google's clouds are each best at, according to a survey of 452 IT professionals

Rosalie Chan | Spiceworks surveyed 452 businesses. Here's what they had to say about what Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are the best at.

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This Amazon exec helped Alexa work with 60,000 devices, but says he only really understood its power when his kid came home from school

Julie Bort | Daniel Rausch runs Alexa's smart home team which has helped put Alexa on everything from bikes to microwaves. But his big aha moment came from home.

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Billionaire investor Howard Marks explains why the Fed's recent behavior is delaying an inevitable recession — and ensuring the next one will be even worse

Christopher Competiello | Howard Marks reveals his philosophy behind excessive central-bank stimulation and why he thinks we're 'closer to the end' of the US economic recovery.

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Two Amazon veterans just raised $6.5 million for an analytics tool that gives smaller companies the data insights they need to compete with Amazon itself

Megan Hernbroth | SoundCommerce aggregates and analyzes retailer data to help smaller online companies compete with Amazon.

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A former Google exec reveals the 3 questions you should ask yourself before making a career change

Shana Lebowitz,Sherin Shibu | Making a career change can be intimidating. Gusto COO and former Google exec Lexi Reese uses the same simple approach every time she switches jobs.

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This 26-year-old stared down financial ruin to raise $340 million for his delivery app that's now beating Uber and Deliveroo in huge markets

Charlie Wood | Oscar Pierre is the cofounder and CEO of Glovo, a Barcelona, Spain-based delivery app with a presence in 178 cities across 23 countries.

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