Facebook is reportedly has plans to integrate the messaging services of WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. All three will remain as standalone apps, but the underlying messaging functions of each will become intertwined. Work to create a unified messaging infrastructure has begun and expected to be complete by the end of the year or in […]
OpenX announced a first of its kind collaboration that will bring the entire OpenX exchange into the cloud with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Through this deployment, OpenX will become the first ever major exchange to move all on-premises workloads fully into the cloud and become truly serverless. Work on integrating the five year technology collaboration […]
Adsmovil, the leading mobile advertising company targeting U.S. Hispanics with a direct relationship with 1,200+ Latin American, Spain and US Hispanic publishers, announces the launch of its audience data platform, ‘Adsmovil Personas,’ which will allow brands and agencies to target U.S. Hispanic audiences via decoupled data from their preferred DSPs at scale. The platform allows […]
Mobiquity Technologies, announced AdCop, the advertising industry’s first transparent ad fraud reporting system to be made available free to brands and marketers as a beta testing program independent from Advangelists. Originally designed as a proprietary Advangelists platform feature, AdCop monitors for programmatic fraud post bid impression. If AdCop suspects fraud, the Advangelists platform renders a blank […]
Data from WARC’s 12 key markets — Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, UK, US — which between them account for three-quarters of global adspend, and 91.1% of all mobile adspend ($125.6bn), show that mobile is currently the second-largest ad medium, and will overtake TV this year if current growth rates […]
Amazon has begun trialling a small autonomous delivery robot on the streets of Washington State. Six Amazon Scout fully-electric small trucks have begun delivering goods to people within Snohomish County, Washington. The delivery robots, developed at Amazon’s Seattle research and development lab, travel along the streets at ‘walking pace’ and only deliver packages to the […]
Singapore-based telcos will be consolidating their business in the next three years as more mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) enter the market, it has been predicted. The consolidation claim has come from financial services company Moody’s, which noted that existing MVNOs like Circles.Life and MyRepublic are already eating into the market share of leader Singtel, as well as […]
Adjust, the industry leader in mobile measurement and fraud prevention, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the award-winning cyber security and AI startup Unbotify. The Tel Aviv-based technology startup has developed an exceptional solution that analyses human behaviour patterns within websites’ and mobile apps’ user-flows, to differentiate between bots and actual humans […]
Rovio Entertainment introduces the global launch of Angry Birds Dream Blast – a fun and casual tap-to-match puzzle game in which players join the young and sleepy (and ok – adorable) Angry Birds flock to blast Dream Bubbles and overcome a number of different bubble popping challenges. Angry Birds Dream Blast introduces an all-new gameplay […]
The introduction of AI-based personalisation means shoppers who visit men’s online fashion retailer, Woodhouse Clothing, are now 44% more likely to make a purchase. The new technology, which works across both mobile and desktop, is also helping to increase the retailer’s average order value, which is up 7%. Woodhouse has implemented personalisation technology from Nosto which uses advanced […]