Google Home takes on Amazon Echo with smart home assistant
Google has launched Google Home, a small speaker capable of answering voice commands through a new digital assistant.
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KLM creates chatbot on Facebook Messenger and WeChat
Dutch airline KLM has become one of the first brands to use Facebook’s new branded messenger bots, powered by Nexmo.
‘Cord shavers’: 70% of Brits subscribe to video-on-demand services
UK viewers are only half as likely as viewers globally to “cord cut” in favour of online services, suggesting the threat posed to the likes of Sky and Virgin from online subscription services such as Netflix and Amazon is rather overplayed, according to new data.
SpotX boosts publisher team for Europe expansion
Video inventory platform SpotX is expanding its supply-side operations for UK and Southern Europe with the appointment of Robert Greaves as Supply Operations Manager and Julian Strutt as Business Development Manager.
Smartphones now main way to browse web in the UK
Smartphones have overtaken laptops as the most popular device for getting online, Ofcom research has revealed, with record ownership and use transforming the way we communicate. Some key findings from the report: • Smartphones are now the preferred way to browse the internet • Around a quarter of mobile internet users make a purchase on … [Read more…]
TV gameshow Two Tribes gets app
Endemol Shine UK has launched an official app based on BBC Two’s quick fire quiz show Two Tribes, with host Richard Osman providing the voiceover.
Ashley Madison hack: What are the legal implications?
Mahisha Rupan, senior associate, at technology and digital media law firm, Kemp Little comments on the fallout of the Ashley Maddison hack… offering guides on the legal implications.
Taylor Swift bites Apple: U-turn on music royalties
In a rare moment of contrition, Apple has bowed to concerns raised by musician Taylor Swift and will pay royalties to artists during a three-month free trial period for its new music streaming service.
‘Just Eat Effect’ has Brits buying more meals online than ever before
The popularity of online food delivery services such as ‘Just Eat’ has Brits turning off their ovens and turning on their internet browsers in record numbers.
Top digital countries: Singapore and Sweden lead the way
As digital technology becomes more accessible worldwide, which countries are most advanced and which are growing the fastest? This new chart from the Harvard Business Review takes an empirical look at the countries to watch (and which ones are losing out) in the new digital economy.