Mobiquity Technologies, a leader in advertising technology and mobile location data intelligence, announced the release of a new proprietary points of interest (POI) database. The new POI database creates the largest location dataset containing all commercial buildings, entertainment and sporting venues with over 5.5 million precise location polygons representing over 4,000 different retail chains across […]
Flutter Live announced Flutter 1.0, the first stable release of Google’s UI toolkit for creating beautiful, native experiences for iOS and Android from a single codebase. Flutter is not meant to replace the traditional Apple and Android app models for building mobile apps. Instead, it’s an app engine meant for embedding into an existing […]
Verizon and Samsung announced their plan to bring one of the first commercial 5G smartphones to market in the first half of 2019. The companies will unveil a proof of concept, powered by the upcoming flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile Platform with the Snapdragon X50 5G NR modem and antenna modules with integrated RF transceiver, RF […]
Just like Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook, YouTube is rolling out a Stories feature to users, but only if you have at least 10,000 subscribers. On November 29, YouTube began rolling out a mobile platform feature reminiscent of the highly-trendy Snapchat Stories, a feature that basically all the most popular social media platforms have created […]
Apple and Amazon announced their second partnership in November: the iPhone maker’s music-streaming service is coming to Amazon’s Echo devices this month. The move gets Apple Music onto the most-popular voice-controlled speakers, giving it distribution beyond Apple’s own devices. Subscribers will be able to control Apple Music with Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant, the first time Apple has […]
BIOS, the leading neural engineering startup, announced today that it has closed a $4.5 million seed round from top investors in the UK, Canada and Silicon Valley. The company, formerly known as Cambridge Bio-Augmentation Systems (CBAS), will use the funding to double its technical team, progress the development of its core neural interface technologies, and […]
Online video and paid search are driving the growth in global adspend, as advertisers focus on personalised and targeted communications, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published December 3. With advertisers now able to use these channels to target with pinpoint accuracy and serve personalised messages, they are increasing both the efficiency and effectiveness of […]
On World AIDS Day, Dentsu Webchutney joined hands with ScoopWhoop to narrate the old yet critical message of practicing safe sex in a new and innovative way. For this, a mobile game was created on Facebook that showed people the importance of safe sex. The uniqueness of the game is that unlike other mobile games, […]
Three Hong Kong, the mobile network operator’s arm in the East Asian autonomous territory, has completed the ‘first’ live outdoor broadcast via a 5G network within Hong Kong. The CK Hutchison-owned company ran outdoor network trials in both the 3.5GHz and 28GHz spectrum bands, carrying out the live outdoor broadcast using the former. The 5G […]
Omnichannel marketing means being agnostic about end points, says the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB). It sees all screens as worthwhile, and posits that working with many screens is the best way to pull in hard-to-reach viewers. Omnichannel is taking off in a big way for video marketers: 29 percent took a multi-screen approach in 2014, while 62 […]
