Google Station’s high-speed Wi-Fi hotspots expand to Mexico

Google Station’s high-speed Wi-Fi hotspots expand to Mexico

Google Station is the company’s high-speed public Wi-Fi platform that first launched in India two years ago and later expanded to Indonesia. The free service is now available in Mexico City. The premise behind Station is to improve access to high bandwidth services in areas where internet data plans might not be affordable, and thus […]

Audi’s traffic light countdown tech comes to Washington DC

Audi’s traffic light countdown tech comes to Washington DC

Audi‘s traffic light countdown has been rolling out very slowly in the US (it’s active in just seven cities so far), but it just made one of its biggest expansions yet: it’s now available in Washington, DC. Pull up to one of 600 connected intersections in the country’s capital and your compatible Audi will tell […]

YouTube turns to Wikipedia to help it fight conspiracy theory videos

YouTube turns to Wikipedia to help it fight conspiracy theory videos

YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories to provide alternative viewpoints on controversial subjects, its CEO said. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said that these text boxes, which the company is calling “information cues,” would begin appearing on conspiracy-related videos within the next couple of weeks. Wojcicki, who spoke at a […]

Gumtree boosts customer engagement by a third with Phrasee AI

Gumtree boosts customer engagement by a third with Phrasee AI

 Since its inception in 2000, Gumtree has successfully brought classified ads to the masses, and along the way helped grow the world’s thriving online retail market. Joining the eBay Classifieds Group in 2005, its growing user base delivers over 16 million unique visits a month – making it the UK’s #1 classified ads site. […]

PlayGiga sees cloud gaming services as the next big opportunity for telcos and media companies

PlayGiga sees cloud gaming services as the next big opportunity for telcos and media companies

After successful launches with TIM in Italy, and in Latin America with Turner’s Digital Ventures & Innovation group, PlayGiga has announced that it is accelerating its roll-out plans for further launches in Europe, the U.S. and Asia by the end of 2018. Unlike existing B2C streaming games platforms, PlayGiga is targeting telcos, Internet Service Providers […]