FOODBEAST, a digital media house known for breaking food news and creating visceral food experiences just debuted a social media-powered vending machine with legendary instant noodle company Nissin Foods USA. The machines found their homes within Del Amo Fashion Center (near Lids) in Los Angeles County starting March 1, and Las Vegas Premium Outlets South […]
Hulu and YouTube together have signed about three million subscribers to their live online TV services, according to Bloomberg, a sign the two internet companies may be outmanoeuvring competitors like Sling TV and DirecTV Now. Hulu’s live service is nearing two million subscribers, while YouTube TV has eclipsed a million, said the people, who asked […]
Researchers and clinicians at NYU Langone Health have launched a new app that studies children’s food preferences and emotions to better understand picky eating in young children and provides real-time suggestions for parents. When to Wonder: Picky Eating is the first tool to launch from the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s When to Wonder platform, which will […]
Facebook has revealed its new premium video ad program, Facebook Showcase. It will give online video and TV ad buyers exclusive opportunities to advertise on Watch, Facebook’s video-on-demand service. As of now, Showcase is only available for advertisers targeting US audiences, but will eanble those ad buyers to access new tools such as In-Stream Reserve, […]
Not content with shaking up the retail world, Amazon is moving into the app business with the launch of Amazon Moments. It’s a program that enables app publishers to reward loyal customers for carrying out high value actions with a digital or physical gift from Amazon. The grunt work of actually fulfilling the reward is carried out […]
The Freshwater Trust (TFT), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working to protect and restore freshwater ecosystems, is partnering with IBM Research and SweetSense Inc., a provider of low-cost satellite connected sensors, to pilot technologies which can accurately monitor and track groundwater use in one of the largest and most at risk aquifers in North America. Additional research […]
A record 24 terabytes of data was transferred within the stadium during Super Bowl LIII – an increase of 47 percent from 2018’s NFL championship game and 7x more than Super Bowl XLVIII (in 2014), when Extreme began tracking the data for the NFL’s biggest game. The record-breaking increase in fan engagement was analysed by Extreme […]
Amazon.com is the eCommerce brand with the biggest absolute improvement in organic search performance on Google over the course of 2018 according to the data from search and content optimisation platform, Searchmetrics. Second on the list was online marketplace, etsy.com. Online marketplace, aliexpress.com, which is owned by Chinese multinational, Alibaba, makes number ten with a 236% […]
Data privacy battles are heating up now that a group of US senators have asked regulators to investigate how telecom firms sell people’s location data. Earlier this month, Vice’s Motherboard reported that bounty hunters could pinpoint a person’s cellphone after obtaining location data from data resellers. The report led 15 US senators to call for an investigation into […]
HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, announced collaborations with three leading wireless providers in North America – Cricket Wireless and Verizon in the United States and Rogers Communications in Canada. This is the next step in the company’s journey to offer great quality experiences to consumers across accessible price points and to work with […]