- Dell Taps Actress Yara Shahidi For Ads, Creative Advisory Role
MAD, Todd Wasserman - Friday, October 8, 2021
Dell has announced a multi-year collaboration with Shahidi. In addition to ads, she'll advise the company on inclusive creative strategy. ...
- Apple Remembers Steve Jobs On 10th Anniversary Of His Death
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Apple is marking the 10th anniversary of co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs’ death with a short film and personal statement from the visionary’s family. “The short film — whi ...
- New Intel Spot Designed To 'Break Apple's Spell'
MAD, Todd Wasserman - Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Intel's #GoPC campaign includes former Apple pitchman Justin Long decrying the monochrome finish of contemporary Macs. ...
- Google Reportedly Following Apple Into The Chip Business - Why It's Important To Advertisers
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Google reportedly is building ARM-based central processor semiconductor chips for its Chromebooks, and it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. ...
- Ad-Tech Firm TripleLift Acquired By Private Equity Firm
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, March 29, 2021
TripleLift, a pioneering ad-tech company utilizing computer vision and machine learning to optimize digital creative and media buys, has been acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. ...
- Microsoft Surpasses $40B In Revenue During Holiday Quarter
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Microsoft beat analysts' expectations Tuesday, reporting more than $43.1 billion in revenue -- up 17% -- and $15.5 billion in profit -- up 33% -- in Q4 2020. The fir ...
- Microsoft Teams Video Conferencing Lands On Dell Monitors As CES 2021 Goes Virtual
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Dell announced three new monitors set to launch in February, dubbed the "world's first video conferencing monitors." Certified for Microsoft Teams, they will offer rapid access to the video-conferencing platf ...
- Apple Announces M1 Chip For Mac -- What It Means For Advertisers
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 10, 2020
All aspects of the machine can now run on one chip that provides a unified architecture. All technologies can access the same data without having to switch between multiple poo ...
- Smartphone Sales Way Down, But Finding A Laptop Is Getting Harder
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, August 25, 2020
A Gartner research reported that global smartphone sales dipped 20.4% in the second quarter, and that's on top of a 20% decline in Q1. ...
- Discretionary Spend Down 50%, But Video, Electronics Outlooks Still Solid
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Although 70% of U.S. broadband households think the economy will take a long time to recover, intentions for increased at-home video consumption and CE purchases remain solid, Parks Associates' ongoi ...
- COVID-19 Shelter Mandates, Store Shutdowns Behind Unseasonal Ecommerce Ups, Downs
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 16, 2020
Adobe's June Digital Economy Index shows consumers are getting far less for their online dollars for the first time since the company began tracking digital purchasing power. ...
- Google Acquires Smart Glass Maker North, With Focus On Ambient Computing
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Ambient computing -- computers interacting with humans in real-world environments -- isn't new. Google on Tuesday announced it has acquired North, a pioneer in human computer interfaces and maker ...
- Quicken Loans, General Motors, Amazon, Donate Computers To Disadvantaged Children
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Sunday, April 26, 2020
"Digital access has evolved from a nicety to a necessity -- and we cannot afford to let our children down," according to Skillman Foundation. ...
- Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft Bring Supercomputing Resources To White House For COVID-19 Research
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 23, 2020
The 16 systems will bring together more than 330 petaflops, 775,000 CPU cores, 34,000 GPUs, and more to help researchers better understand COVID-19, its treatments and potential cures. ...
- Trillion Dollar Club: How Much Profit Per Employee
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 23, 2020
HowMuch.net found that Apple leads in terms of profits, making $435,000 per employee, with Google at No. 2 with $269,000 per employee on $30.7 billion in profit and 114,000 employ ...
- Email Management App Extended To Macs
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Edison Mail's app allows consumers to block unwanted emails from advertisers. It had been available for iOS and Android. ...
- Apple Will Keep Mac Pro Manufacturing In Austin After Tariff Relief
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Apple had previously announced it planned to move Mac Pro manufacturing to China. ...
- 2-In-1s Shaking Up PC Market
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, September 11, 2019
While sales of personal computing devices including tablets are expected to decline, 2-in-1 devices -- laptops or tablets with detachable keyboards -- will grow. ...
- Vox Creative Creates 'Smartest Brain' Campaign, Intel Sponsors
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Wednesday, August 28, 2019
The winners were chosen for their efforts "using technology to empower community collaboration." ...
- Study: Kids Go Online Rather Than Ask Parents For Homework Help
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, August 1, 2019
In a global Lenovo study, 75% of parents say kids are more likely to look up information online than ask for help. ...
- 'Los Angeles Times' Switches Website To Home-Grown Publishing Tech
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Wednesday, July 17, 2019
The newspaper no longer depend son the publishing technology of former owner Tribune Publishing. ...
- Alan Turing To Be On Next GBP50 Note
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, July 15, 2019
The Bank of England has announced that the next face on the GBP50 note will be code-breaker, and some might argue, the father of modern computing, Alan Turing. The B ...
- Amazon Spends Thousands In Grant Money Looking For Talent, Passion For Science
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, April 12, 2019
Amazon, along with a program that builds science and technology skills, on Friday announced robotics grants to 100 schools in underserved and underrepresented communities. The idea is to inspire ki ...
- Trial Begins As HP Sues Autonomy Founder For $5bn
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, March 26, 2019
The UK's biggest anti-fraud trial got underway yesterday as Hewlett Packard took Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and its former CFO Sushovan Hussain to court for what is claims was ...
- 'PCMag' Tracks Wireless Carriers' "Race To 5G"
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Monday, February 25, 2019
The impact of 5G is best understood by looking at how 3G and 4G "transformed society. 3G basically enabled widespread mobile web use. 4G introduced a host of applications th ...
- Apple's Q1 Hits $84B, Forecast Decline Blamed On iPhone Sales
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, January 29, 2019
On the bright side, Apple's active installed base of devices reached an all-time high of 1.4 billion in Q1, CEO pointed out. Total revenue from products reached nearly $11 bill ...
- Global PC Shipments Down 4.3% Y-O-Y
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, January 11, 2019
Gartner believes the sluggish sales are a product of political and economic uncertainties around the world, combined with an ongoing CPU shortage. ...
- Google Chrome To Offer Dark Mode Browsing For Windows 10
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 3, 2019
Google apps like Android Messages, YouTube, News, Maps and Contact all have a built-in native dark mode that turns the background a grayish black with light colored text and imag ...
- Mac-Based Email Malware Now A Threat: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, December 11, 2018
The Mac-based email appeared for the first time on WatchGuard's list of the most common types of malware. ...
- Global Tablet Shipments Down 9%, Apple Leads Market
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Monday, November 5, 2018
The worldwide tablet market declined 9% last quarter, according to the latest forecast from International Data Corporation. The number of tablets shipped fell from 40 million to 36 million devic ...
