Lyft is the latest company to receive a permit to test self-driving cars on public roads in California. It’s an important step in the company’s attempt to catch up with rival Uber in the development of autonomous vehicles for ride-hailing. As of November 16, Lyft appears on a list of companies issued autonomous-testing permits by […]
Preoday, the e-commerce company that provides hospitality companies with leading mobile and online ordering and promotions technology, has signed Wolverhampton Civic Hall and its sister venue, the Wulfrun Hall, as its 29th and 30th theatres in 2017. The double-signing brings the total number of theatres working with Preoday to 30. Theatres using the Preoday platform […]
BMW goes fully digital in their purchase funnel. The German Automobile company is the first brand to use Snapchat’s new AR ‘augmented trial’ Lens which lets customers visualise how products look in the real world before purchase. The brand is using the technology to promote its latest and funkiest X SUV – the X2 […]
Honda Motor revealed it will use Facebook’s custom audiences tool to find car owners with defective Takata airbags. The tool, which allows advertisers to reach a specified list of users, will match encrypted email addresses associated with recalled vehicle identification numbers to Facebook users. Japan’s Takata Corp’s air bag inflators have been linked to at […]
Destination DC (DDC), the official marketing organisation for Washington DC, expands its partnership with WeChat by launching the first City Experience Mini Program in the United States to support Chinese travellers when they arrive in the city. Through Tencent’s instant messaging platform, DDC continues its expansion into Washington, DC’s top overseas market with the immersive new program built for the […]
What is claimed to be the largest bot network ever has been discovered by Adform, which it has said was possibly four times the size of the Methbot network unearthed less than a year ago and accessing over half a million IP addresses, mainly located in the US. The fraud team at the adtech firm […]
LiveRamp, an Acxiom company and leading provider of omnichannel identity resolution, and Criteo, the commerce marketing technology company, announced a collaboration between the two companies. Criteo and LiveRamp will work in tandem to integrate LiveRamp into Criteo’s Commerce Marketing Ecosystem, a network of tens of thousands of retailers, brands, and publishers that enables collaboration and […]
Nintendo’s Animal Crossing mobile game has got its official release date, after it was finally unveiled to the world in October. Releasing November 22, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has been in the works for a while, and is set to pave the way for the eventual launch of a Legend of Zelda mobile game. With the launch of […]
YOOX, which has always been at the forefront of e-fashion, has teamed up with Google to develop an innovative and groundbreaking interactive ADV format, creating for YouTube the world’s most exclusive collection. YOOX is a virtual wardrobe of wonders and treasure, and the intention was to offer customers a selection of the most covetable fashion […]
Chinese internet search giant Baidu on November 16 introduced a speaker and two robots as part of its Raven series in a serious push into the highly competitive smart home market. The products, introduced at the Baidu World Conference in Beijing, are powered by the company’s DuerOS conversational artificial intelligence technology. That system is similar […]