Instagram has introduced several new features that will improve the app experience for advertisers and users alike.

1. Instagram has opened up two-factor authentication to boost the account security of all of its users

2. Blurred Content Filters Instagram is also increasing its censorship of sensitive content.

3. With direct booking, users get a more streamlined in-app experience, so if you see an amazing Instagram photo of the latest trendy food, you’ll be able to make a reservation right on the restaurant’s Instagram profile.This tool will allow users to make a booking or appointment directly on a business’ Instagram profile.

With 400 million daily active users and counting, Instagram is doing pretty well for itself. This growth will undoubtedly spark more updates in the future. Stay tuned! Read more at:

http://socialmediaexplorer.com/content-sections/news-and-noise/instagram-rolls-out-new-security-and-booking-features/

Facebook bots can offer your clients with personalised choices and also the same interactive communication of rebuke a customer service rep.

They will conjointly offer businesses with intrinsic message templates, which might be enforced with none programming data.

The last of the capabilities are the welcome screen and null state calls-to-action to help customize your bot.

They will also change the way customers search for information by sparing users the hunt for specific criteria for a product or service.

According to Tech Crunch, bots may render 1 -800 numbers obsolete by eliminating wait times and menu trees.

Chatbots are the newest release in its quest to revolutionize customer service through social media.

Interested in bringing your customer service to the next level? Chatbots may be able to grant that wish.Read more at: http://socialmediaexplorer.com/content-sections/tools-and-tips/facebook-chat-bots/

A Mass based digital agency Stone Temple collected 5,000 questions to ask both Google Home and Amazon Alexa and discovered that Google Home answered more than three times the amount of questions compared to Amazon Echo (3,383 versus 1,030). Out of all the queries Google Home answered, 2.3 % of the queries it answered were incorrect versus 6.3 % of the Amazon Echo device. So, Google Home seems to be the smarter device. With access to Google's repository, this is often hardly shocking. Amazon Alexa performed well, while apparently not counting on Google for its answers. Read more at: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-home-versus-amazon-alexa-which-one-is-smarter/

There are endless lists of applications that leverage networks’ data provide businesses with actionable business intelligence and qualified leads. In small and medium businesses, companies jump into social media through isolated initiatives that are not a part of consistent plan towards a given goal.

Moreover, maximum businesses use social media to amplify customer experiences with their products beyond the moment they’re being used.

The extent of how this is happening in specific businesses depends on the priority social networks have been given at strategic level and on the basis of teams, tools and processes that have been put in place to accomplish this.

This changes the way businesses connect with each other, just like social networks made for individuals before them.

Read more at : http://socialmediaexplorer.com/content-sections/tools-and-tips/social-networking-tips/

Budapest-based Hungarian start-up UXstudio has created a chatbot called Nuru. The app can help smartphone users in Kenya and Ghana in four different ways: agriculture, classified ads, finances, and healthcare. Ghanan start-up Esoko offers text-based market price information for farmers, so they can sell their crops at a fair price. The Kenyan TotoHealth service helps women with text message notifications and advice during their pregnancy. Nuru will ask you whether you have seen a doctor and If you have not seen one, it can suggest doctors in your area. If the user asks for job suggestions, the app will list all the opportunities nearby.

Since chatbots work like the current services already in use in Africa, the technology can streamline solving day-to-day problems and make information more accessible for users. Read more at : http://www.zdnet.com/article/nuru-ai-chatbot-helps-to-solve-day-to-day-problems-in-africa/

Chatbots are fast becoming a business imperative for businesses that want to engage with their customers. , with artificial intelligence and natural language processing, online chat is becoming the preferred way to communicate with the brand for many users who want an on-the-spot answer to their query. It partnered with enterprise-focused chatbot developer SmallTalk to provide tailored insurance policies for small businesses via a social channel. 

Chatbot technology is redefining the way we view and engage with some of the largest and most traditional industries, including insurance. Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up Next Insurance has launched an insurance chatbot to enable small businesses to quote and buy insurance via a Facebook Messenger chatbot. Thus bringing simplicity, transparency, and easy access while buying insurance.

Read more at : http://www.zdnet.com/article/next-insurance-launches-facebook-messenger-chatbot-to-replace-the-insurance-agent/

Rosenbaum was accused of searching Reed’s medical records and violating HIPAA (she has been cleared of that by an investigation) because she mentioned the stage of uterine cancer in the essay, begging the question how she knew the stage of the cancer.While banning morcellation certainly saves women from the dreaded complication that Amy Reed regrettably faced, what about women who do not develop complications from open procedure, such as pulmonary embolism, because of using the less invasive technique? Who cheers for events that don’t happen? Safety for some patients comes with unsafety for other patients.How did our skeptical healthcare journalists respond to this accusation? Presumably they decimated the sloppy, self-serving, logic of the accusation, which is nothing more than a jejune and desperate personal attack on the author.Read mroe at : http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2016/03/20/overoutrage-and-the-asymmetric-skepticism-of-healthcare-journalists/

 Swiss exports have fallen for the third year in a row. This hasn’t happened since 1930, in the depths of the Depression.Experts attribute the fall to a few factors. First, American imports have fallen 28% as more and more people abandon watches or settle on Apple Watches. Younger people don’t want to buy watches at official sellers, instead choosing to go online.Watch sales have fallen before. The recent recession flattened new sales as traders sold their fancy Rolexes and Pateks at a discount just to get liquid.The Swiss can fix this. They need  to educate the next generation about the history of the things they want them to love,and they also need to make including some techy stuff which would attract young generation. Read more at : https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/17/swiss-watch-exports-dropped-for-a-third-year-in-a-row/