Online retailer Jet.com is bulking up its advertising presence in major metro areas. Cheddar is live at the company's New Jersey headquarters with Emily Frankel, the company's senior director of digital marketing. She explains the keys to reaching the company's core demographics.
We learn about Jet's marketing efforts in New York City. It's launching special-edition subway cards in some of the city's most-frequented stations. Frankel also tells us about the strategic thinking that goes into Jet's outdoor marketing strategy.
Finally, Frankel gives insight on how Jet uses different social media channels to reach its market. She reveals how the e-commerce company is working to cut into Amazon's millennial market share. Plus, we get a detailed breakdown of the company's strategies on Instagram, Snapchat, and more.
An independent watchdog within the IRS reports that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is still too slow to resolve identity theft cases. And National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins says those delays are “unconscionable.” Erin M. Collins said in the report released Wednesday that overall the 2024 filing season went smoothly, though IRS delays in resolving identity theft victim assistance cases are worsening. It took nearly 19 months to resolve self-reported identity theft cases as of January, and Wednesday's report states that now it takes 22 months to resolve these cases.
Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $2 trillion in market value for the first time in afternoon trading on Wednesday. The push higher for Amazon’s stock market valuation comes a little more than a week after Nvidia hit $3 trillion and briefly became the most valuable company on Wall Street. Nvidia’s chips are used to power many AI application and its valuation has soared as a result. Amazon has also been making big investments in AI as global interest has grown in the technology. Most of the company’s focus has been on business-focused products.
Climate change doesn’t just mean more extreme weather – it also leads to billions of dollars in lost productivity, tourism, and stresses infrastructure.
