Snapchat has announced a new feature called Bitmoji Deluxe, adding hundreds more options to customize your avatar, including new skin tones, hairstyles, eye and hair colors, facial features, and accessories. On Bitmoji Deluxe, you can snap a selfie and use it as a reference to design your avatar. When you select a particular eyebrow style, […]
Google has announced the completion of its $1.1 billion deal to buy a large slice of HTC’s hardware business. The acquisition was announced back in September 2017 but now it has passed the requisite approvals and is finalized. Beyond the transfer of over 2,000 engineers from HTC — that’s around one-fifth of HTC’s engineering team […]
Verve, the leading location-based mobile platform, has set its sights on capturing a significant slice of the UK’s £2.6bn mobile programmatic advertising market, with the expansion of its Premium Programmatic Mobile solution through Rubicon Project’s leading Orders platform, completing its international end-to-end product suite. Verve’s programmatic solution is now available to UK and international advertisers, […]
You may start seeing more posts from local publishers popping up in your News Feed. Facebook has announced that it will begin prioritising local news, bumping it up higher in your feed if you follow a local publisher’s Page or if a friend shares a locally-published story. “We are prioritising local news as a part […]
Tecno Mobile India has launched a new campaign for the Camon i. The launch of the TVC comes right after the unveiling of Tecno’s Camon i, its first smartphone under the global flagship Camon series, in India. The campaign was created in association with Creativeland Asia. It is directed by Kartik Ramnathkar and produced by […]
In its first global branding campaign, Alibaba is making a big play for higher international visibility by focusing on “the greatness of small”. Launched for the upcoming PyeongChang 2018 games, the campaign features a cast of multinational athletes who have made, or may make, outsized impacts. The three-part series by BBDO China, which debuted Monday, […]
After tussling with Uber in its home market of India, Ola is ready to go up against the ride-hailing giant in new territory as it expands beyond the country’s borders for the first time: the company has announced it’s launching operations in Australia this year. Ola claims to have garnered 125 million passengers on its […]
Preoday, the global provider of branded digital ordering services, has launched its new Hotline functionality to enhance its mobile and online ordering platform. Hotline is an additional feature of the digital ordering platform. It enables restaurants and cafes to take orders over the phone and enter them into the same system as those taken through […]
Google has confirmed its investment in Go-Jek, the hail-railing service that rivals Uber and Grab in Indonesia. TechCrunch reported the investment earlier this month, which was made alongside China’s Meituan-Dianping and Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek. The trio were part of a final tranche of a $1.2 billion round that Go-Jek began negotiating on last April, […]
Consumers could be using up to 100GB of data on their phones every month by 2025, according to mobile network provider GiffGaff. The company said the introduction of 5G will lead to an “explosive” growth in data consumption. It tipped video streaming to be see the largest growth. In 2017, users consumed just 0.83GB worth […]