Google debuts mobile wallet function with Urban Airship
Google has struck a partnership with Urban Airship, a digital growth company, to launch a mobile wallet function on Google Pay.
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10 big trends from Google I/O: AI phone calls and Android IoT platform
Google’s annual developer conference this year showed how the internet giant sees AI as the future, from Gmail that writes itself to an Assistant that makes appointment- based phone calls for you. We look at ten of the biggest announcements from Google I/O 2018….
Global app trends: UK falls behind Germany for consumer app spend
Global consumer spend via app stores is expected to grow 30% to $81.7B in 2018 and climb to $156.5B by 2022, with China leading the way and the UK falling behind.
The big 6 trends from Facebook’s F8 event: VR sale, Watch Party and a clear history tool
Facebook unveiled a raft of new features during its annual F8 conference this week, including a dating service and its standalone VR device going on sale, but the conference was overshadowed by continuing controversies at the company.
Three ways marketers can accelerate their action plan for GDPR in May
With under a month to go until the deadline, Paul Fennemore, Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Oxford Brooks University and C-Suite Level Customer Experience Consultant at Sitecore, provides three ways marketers can accelerate their action plan for GDPR.
The end of the high street gym? Brits turn to online tech for fitness
Almost a third of UK adults use health apps every week, with 21% doing so instead of visiting personal trainers or gyms, according to new research.
Virtual make-up: L’Oréal buys AI and AR firm ModiFace
L’Oréal has bought ModiFace, an augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) company, as the French beauty brand expands into technology.
Brits spend twice as long on internet as 10 years ago
Nine in ten adults are now online with most thinking the benefits of the internet outweigh the risks, but many are turned off by all forms of digital advertising, according to new research.
UK businesses ‘must act now to avoid tech giant domination by 2025’
By 2025, 80% of all digital services to be delivered through a few core platforms, according to a new forecast.
Ikea handyman app TaskRabbit hit by data breach
Ikea’s odd jobs marketplace TaskRabbit is back online today, after a “cyber-security incident” on Monday.