This Black Friday, Wal-Mart is going digital. The world’s largest retailer recently said that its website will kick off its online Black Friday sale three hours earlier than 2015, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Thanksgiving Day. That’s hours before its in-store doorbuster deals begin at 6 p.m. that evening. This is just the second year that Wal-Mart […]
Instagram is adding three new features to Stories in what they are calling the biggest update to Stories since its launch. Starting November 10, the company will let creators add URL links to their stories that viewers can navigate to without leaving Instagram, add the ability for users to be “@ mentioned” in someone’s story, and […]
Snapchat is looking to fight Facebook and others for one of the biggest categories of mobile advertising: app-installation ads. After introducing directly-sold app-install ads earlier this year, the messaging app is talking with direct-response specialists about giving them access to its ads API, or application programming interface, in the first half of next year, according […]
Uber has revamped its app, streamlining the intricacies of its ride sharing service into a single question for riders: ‘Where to?’. It’s the first redesign the app has received since 2012, and Uber acknowledges that since then it has suffered from feature bloat, becoming ‘complicated and harder to navigate’. This update is intended to strip […]
TGI Fridays and Byron will soon be accepting the Qkr! with Masterpass app throughout its restaurants, letting UK customers pay from their smartphone using the app- speeding up the bill paying process. Group Individual Restaurants has also signed a deal with Mastercard to implement Qkr across their UK sites early in 2017, which will soon […]
Instagram is testing new features that will enable brands to share posts that include more product information with the aim of getting more consumers to buy products they see on the image-sharing site. The test, only available to Apple mobile phone owners in the US at the moment, includes 20 brands such as Macy’s, Abercrombie […]
AR firm Zappar has partnered with DreamWorks Animation to bring to life characters from the animated feature film Trolls for Tesco UK. The campaign launched on 21 October to tie in with the release of the movie in UK cinemas. It enables shoppers to explore Tesco stores nationwide with their smartphone or tablet to find […]
The Swedish pharmacy chain ‘Apotek Hjärtat’ has launched a VR app for pain relief. ‘Happy Place’ distracts the brain from focusing on temporary pain through a virtual world. The app is available for free download in Oculus Store and available to try in selected Apotek Hjärtat pharmacies. Years of research and several independent studies show […]
Tinder has launched ‘Swipe the Vote’, an in-app experience created in partnership with non-profit organisation Rock the Vote, intended to activate voters for the impending US election. The dating app will present users with a simple poll, created using polling platform Wedgies, which asks them to swipe left or right on seven key issues, and to pick the candidate they intend to vote […]
UK retail giant Tesco is testing a contactless system that will make the paper receipt a thing of the past, instead sending a digital record of your purchases to your smartphone as part of the payment process. According to the Daily Mail, the system is being trialled at self-service tills in two stores in Harlow, […]