Yahoo aims to reinvent messaging with Together

Yahoo aims to reinvent messaging with Together

Less than four months after it killed off its Yahoo Messenger product, Verizon-owned Oath is introducing a new messaging platform called Yahoo Together. Designed for group chats between family, friends and interest groups, the platform allows users to separate out conversations into different topics, similar to IRC chat. “Have you ever been in a group SMS […]

Brandwatch & Crimson Hexagon merge to create new AI-driven products to help decision-maker better understand their consumer

Brandwatch & Crimson Hexagon merge to create new AI-driven products to help decision-maker better understand their consumer

Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon, two leaders in the social intelligence space, announce the signing of a merger agreement. This merger, expected to close in Q4, creates a c. $100 million annual recurring revenue business that will move forward as Brandwatch. “In this digitally connected world, our vision is to transform how organisations understand their consumers […]

Yonder Media launches spoof “ChatBot Media Planner” to highlight lack of original thinking in the industry

Yonder Media launches spoof “ChatBot Media Planner” to highlight lack of original thinking in the industry

Yonder Media, the agency formed earlier in 2018 by The Beyond Collective, has created a spoof ChatBot Media Planner that claims to offer clients a perfect replica of their current agency service in Chatbot form. Calling itself “the world’s first chatbot-powered media planning tool”, it offers to analyse each advertiser’s specific requirements before producing a […]

AliveNow teams with Toys“R”Us for Geoffrey the Giraffe Facebook AR camera filter

AliveNow teams with Toys“R”Us for Geoffrey the Giraffe Facebook AR camera filter

Toys“R”Us Asia has launched their first ever Facebook Augmented Reality Camera Filter for Toys“R”Us Hong Kong. Developed by leading creative tech agency, AliveNow, this fun and colourful AR Camera effect gives fans the chance to adorn themselves with features of Toys “R” Us’s famous mascot, Geoffrey the Giraffe. This playful AR camera experience is also […]

Iconeme launches virtual ‘high street takeover’ in Notting Hill

Iconeme launches virtual ‘high street takeover’ in Notting Hill

Technology and design firm Iconeme is collaborating with participating retailers in London’s Notting Hill to launch a personalised virtual ‘high street takeover’ that delivers promotions and offers to shoppers’ phones. The takeover, which will cover Notting Hill’s busy Ledbury Road and Westbourne Grove, includes retailers like Derek Rose, Melt, Hari’s, Melissa Odabash, Petit Bateau, Toast and Dinny […]

Google introduces app for hands-free smartphone operation

Google introduces app for hands-free smartphone operation

 Google’s latest app gives Android users the ability to control every aspect of their device in a purely hands-free manner using just their voice. Designed to help individuals with health issues such as Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, arthritis or spinal cord injuries – and those that have their hands full – Voice Access gives […]

Nearly half of enterprise brands believe they are at risk of a website data breach, according to Ensighten

Nearly half of enterprise brands believe they are at risk of a website data breach, according to Ensighten

Ensighten, the global leader in data security, governance and omni-channel data management, unveiled research showing that nearly half (46%) of enterprises believe they have a probable (or greater) risk of a website data breach. 15 per cent of enterprises also admitted that they have a definite, known risk. 67 per cent have not evaluated, considered, […]