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 […]
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 […]
Oath has made programmatic audio ads available globally through its Oath Ad Platforms suite of marketing and advertising solutions. Oath Ad Platforms launched in September, combining the assets of BrightRoll, One by AOL, and Yahoo Gemini into a single set of solutions. The addition of programmatic audio ads enables advertisers to reach podcast and streaming […]
Less than four months after it killed off its Yahoo Messenger product, Verizon-owned Oath is introducing a new messaging platform called Yahoo Together. Designed for group chats between family, friends and interest groups, the platform allows users to separate out conversations into different topics, similar to IRC chat. “Have you ever been in a group SMS […]
Oath, a Verizon subsidiary, kicks off the Cannes Lions Festival with new opportunities for brands to engage with consumers through extended reality (XR) ad experiences. Combining the art of brand building and the science of data, new 3D ad formats and first-in-market programmatic VR ads represent the company’s latest premium ad innovation for consumers to […]
Verizon released a new minute-long video as a tribute to those serving the country and its role connecting them to their families. As a part of the wireless carrier’s Military Appreciation Month, Verizon worked with the Wounded Warrior Project to stitch together a montage of military family reunions, all taken through mobile devices. Starting […]
Verizon’s Oath is teaming up with Samsung to deliver both media and advertising content through Bixby Home on Galaxy S9, S9+, S8, S8+, and Note8 devices. The partnership will enable Samsung customers to keep up-to-date with content from Yahoo Sports, Newsroom, Yahoo Finance, and Go90. Meanwhile, native ads via Yahoo Gemini will be distributed within […]
The Mobile Authentication Taskforce, comprised of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, has revealed product details of the next-generation mobile authentication platform at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Formed last year to develop a mobile authentication solution to help protect enterprises and consumers from identity theft, bank fraud, fraudulent purchases and data theft, the Mobile Authentication Taskforce […]
AT&T and Verizon have conceded that phones won’t be available in time for the launch of fifth-generation mobile service this year, and plan instead to offer 5G through portable hotspots called pucks. “I would expect that there are a range of handsets available in 2019 and some of those will be in the first half […]
Mike Hemes, Regional Director, A10 Networks They’re called superforecaster. A subset of human study volunteers who have an uncanny ability to predict the future better than the general populous. Who are these individuals? According to The Washington Post, the superforecaster term was coined by University of Pennsylvania professor Philip Tetlock. His 20-year study — explained in […]