Entertainment and finance apps have powered a 43 per cent surge in app usage in India over the course of 2016 according to the latest study conducted by Yahoo’s Flurry Analytics. The State of the App survey found that time spent on messaging and social apps grew at a greater clip in India (52%) than […]
Google has announced the upcoming rollout of a new feature to Maps that will let people share their location with friends and family – even if they don’t have the Maps app. Available on both Android and iOS, users will be able to share their location in real-time with their Google contacts or by sending […]
Pottery Barn is launching an augmented reality app, called 3D Room View, that lets customers visually try out living room furniture before they buy it. The 3D Room View app works with Google’s Project Tango, a platform that uses motion tracking, area learning, and depth perception to allow mobile devices to understand their position relative […]
On March 21, during the International Day of Forests, Fundación Banco de Bosques together with Wunderman Buenos Aires will be launching ECO ALARM, a free mobile app. ECO ALARM is an alarm clock with which you will be helping endangered native forest without investing a single cent, or leaving your bed. Wunderman created an album […]
Wake up, go to work, come home. Wake up, go to work, come home. It’s an invariable grind that’s almost impossible to see past. The logistics alone of even tiny weekend trips can stop us from starting the process at all, leaving us marinating in unrealized fantasies of escape. But what if getting away for […]
Online CRM firm iAdvize is integrating with WhatsApp, letting brands communicate directly with their customers and prospects via WhatsApp. The integration of WhatsApp within iAdvize enables online shoppers to contact a brand’s customer service team directly in the WhatsApp discussion thread and allows then to ask questions via private messages. Customers can find all past […]
Coca-Cola has launched an app to provide small retailers with coke—on demand. The global beverage giant is trying to make the most of the supply chain’s ‘white spaces’ while taking part in the ever-increasing trend of immediacy: matching the demand to the supply in real time with their on-demand deliveries. The white spaces in the […]
Music streaming platform Spotify has integrated with traffic and navigation app Waze, and vice versa, to make it easier to control music and follow routes at the same time. The integration will enable users to navigate to a destination within the Spotify app, or control their playlists from Waze app while following directions. In addition, […]
Fast food chain McDonald’s has been slow to embrace mobile ordering but from March 2017, the burger specialists will begin testing its own app in the US in order to iron out the type of kinks experienced by the likes of Starbucks. Digital ordering is the holy grail of restaurant chains but few have mastered the technology […]
Daimler-owned taxi app MyTaxi has launched in London following its merger with Hailo, a British taxi app, in July 2016. The launch enables passengers in the London to order licensed through the MyTaxi app – allowing existing Hailo users to switch from one app to the other via a personalised link, without the need to […]