BBC Good Food launches its first-ever Alexa skill

BBC Good Food launches its first-ever Alexa skill

The BBC’s popular food media brand, Good Food, has launched its first skill on Amazon’s AI assistant, Alexa, giving cooks around the UK access to more than 11,000 recipes with their voice. The skill, which is now live on Alexa-enabled devices like the Echo and Echo Dot, was built for BBC Good Food by digital […]

IX Reach & eStruxture strengthen partnership to offer exceptional connectivity solutions across North America

IX Reach & eStruxture strengthen partnership to offer exceptional connectivity solutions across North America

IX Reach, the leading global provider of carrier services and connectivity solutions, and eStruxture Data Centers, a prominent pan-Canadian provider of network and cloud-neutral data centre solutions are further strengthening their partnership and commitment to providing first class connectivity, cloud and zero-downtime hosting solutions to major blue-chip networks. This enhanced partnership with IX Reach complements […]

Ride-hailing app Grab introduces omnichannel ad business

Ride-hailing app Grab introduces omnichannel ad business

Ride-hailing firm Grab has launched an advertising unit to enable brands to reach consumers in Southeast Asia both inside and outside of vehicles. Through GrabAds, brands are able to utilise Grab’s presence across eight countries and in over 200 cities in Southeast Asia to reach people taking a ride in one of the company’s vehicles […]

Seven Premier League clubs share eToro Bitcoin bonanza

Seven Premier League clubs share eToro Bitcoin bonanza

Seven Premier League clubs have agreed to partner with digital-currency exchange eToro for the 2018/19 season, thought to be the first sponsorship deal to be paid using Bitcoin for the top-flight football tournament. Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion, Crystal Palace, Cardiff City, Leicester City Football Club, Newcastle United and Southampton have also signed up […]

Appnext’s Service-Based Monetisation Solution Enriches User Experience in TextNow Messaging App

Appnext’s Service-Based Monetisation Solution Enriches User Experience in TextNow Messaging App

Appnext, a leading mobile discovery platform, has announced that TextNow, the first ever full-service freemium wireless company with over 100 million downloads, has integrated Appnext Actions into its Android app’s messaging stream. Appnext Actions maps key phrases in users’ text conversations to seamlessly connect users to additional services they need such as ordering a taxi, making a restaurant […]

Google’s app development platform gets an upgrade

Google’s app development platform gets an upgrade

Firebase, Google‘s default platform for app developers, has had a series of updates since it was acquired four years ago, and today brings the latest in that series, adding in-app messaging, new analytics reports and more. The new updates are aimed at helping developers to build better apps, improve their app quality and grow their […]

Ad Age’s Hispanic Fact Pack 2018 Presents the Leading Ad Focus Companies of the US Hispanic Market

Ad Age’s Hispanic Fact Pack 2018 Presents the Leading Ad Focus Companies of the US Hispanic Market

Mobvious, the company specialised in providing digital advertising solutions to the US Hispanic market, and recently acquired by Prisa Brand Solutions, has been placed at the third spot on the Hispanic Fact Pack 2018 ranking as one of the networks with the highest reach within the Hispanic market in the United States. According to Ad […]

Mobile to the fore in British Red Cross website redesign by Rufus Leonard

Mobile to the fore in British Red Cross website redesign by Rufus Leonard

The British Red Cross helps millions of people in the UK and around the world get the support they need if crisis strikes. However, over time, its website had become outdated and unreliable, with people unsure where to find the information they needed and confused about the organisation’s purpose. Head of brand and strategic marketing at British […]

Grab and Ping An Good Doctor will team to create online healthcare services for Southeast Asia

Grab and Ping An Good Doctor will team to create online healthcare services for Southeast Asia

Southeast Asian transport turned ‘super app’ Grab is adding healthcare to its growing list of services, via a partnership with Chinese company Ping An Good Doctor. According to the announcement, the service will eventually be available across Southeast Asia and will use both the businesses expertise to create services, such as artificial-intelligence (AI) assisted online […]