Social media platforms are leading millennials to spend more money on their phones than ever before – with UK Snapchat users 300% more likely to buy items on their phones than the average Brit. With 33% of British Snapchat users happy to spend more than £100 on mobile, it puts them at 74% more likely […]
It’s been more than a year since Amazon first tapped into Twitch’s customer base with perks to improve their experience. Now, the online giant has started offering free games from their archives for Prime customers to keep. Twitch announced that starting on March 15 those customers would get a pair of free games, Superhot and […]
When you’re running on a treadmill like a compulsive little hamster, or just going about your daily business, you may imagine yourself as the star of your own modern Super Mario-style video game, bounding across a brightly colored screen and leaping dexterously over obstacles to rack up points. But lucky folks in China have the […]
Lyft is partnering with Magna, one of the largest tier-one automotive industry suppliers in the world, on autonomous vehicle technology. Lyft CEO and co-founder Logan Green explained that this will help them get their self-driving tech into various automaker vehicles around the world. Lyft will be working directly with Magna on “co-developing” an autonomous driving […]
While 71.5% of Instagram influencers attempted to disclose their relationships with sponsors, only 25% did so in a way that complies with guidelines from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, according to a study by Inkifi. Health and fitness influencers were the worst at posting sponsorship notices, with only 60% attempting to disclose and just 16% […]
Google, eBay and other technology leaders are aiming to protect the world’s animals. Why? In a widely unregulated social-media world, many tech platforms have become a haven for the wildlife black market, a $20 billion industry. The sale of illegal animal goods — from ivory to exotic pets — is the fourth-largest criminal global trade […]
Karix Mobile, a leading messaging solution and mobile engagement company (formerly known as mGage India) headquartered in Mumbai, India – announced the launch of its cloud communications platform as a service (CPaaS) – karix.io. The platform was showcased at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb 26 – March 1, 2018) and would initially offer programmable […]
Every five minutes a child around the world dies at the hands of violence. To help put an end to violence against children, UNICEF and The Monkeys‘ new campaign, ‘A Minute of Your Time‘ turns time into money and money into real, life-saving aid for children in danger. The national awareness and fundraising campaign […]
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 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 […]