From talking cat collars to robot marketers, technology took us in some strange directions during 2016. In this brave new world of emoji keyword targetting and smart pigeons, we celebrate the weirdest news of the year.
Brexit, the Olympics, Euro 2016 and Donald Trump dominate online searches in 2016 in Yahoo’s annual reflection of Britain’s search habits and trends.
As 2016 draws to a close, we look as some of the biggest marketing blunders of the year. From Microsoft’s chatbot going rogue on Twitter to Gmail ‘April fooling’ itself, there were plenty of mistakes from companies that should know better. Read on, learn from the mistakes and hope your team doesn’t make the list … [Read more…]
Top tech companies like Google and Facebook are renowned for their modern offices, exceptional perks, and higher-than-average salaries – but does this give employees job satisfaction? A new infographic from eCardShack reveals which tech giant has the happiest workers.
Virtual reality (VR) shopping sprees could spell the end for physical high street retailers by 2050, according to new research.
Major online ad exchange AppNexus has blacklisted news site Breitbart for “breaking their service rules regarding hate speech”.
The first episode Amazon’s ‘The Grand Tour’ featuring ex-BBC Top Gear presenters, has become the biggest show premiere on the firm’s streaming service.
Unilever is donating 1 million meals to children facing hunger through #ShareAMeal, in exchange for a post, share, #TBT or order of a food for delivery.
Google has updated its Maps feature with a new tool that shows whether a bar or shop is busy in real-time.
IBM has launched Project Intu, an open platform designed to let developers embed its AI “Watson” functions into various end-user device form factors, offering a next generation architecture for building “cognitive-enabled experiences”.