- Despite Better Than Expected Tracking Opt-In Rates, iOS Continues To Lose Share To Android
Mobile Insider, Joe Mandese - Thursday, September 2, 2021
Three months into Apple's enforcement of its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework, there's some good news and bad news on its impact. ...
- Login With Apple Feature To Take On Google And Facebook
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, June 4, 2019
"The Telegraph" reports that Apple is trying to compete with Google and Facebook log-in options for website with its own "Login with Apple" facility that will do the same j ...
- Apple Takes On Netflix On TV And Google On Games
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, March 26, 2019
If you want to catch up with last night's Apple event, the BBC is a good place to start. It has a rundown, including the launch of Apple TV+ whi ...
- Sky And Netflix, The Apple TV+ Killers
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Two rivals are already working together in the UK to ensure Apple TV+ is unlikely to gain a foothold. ...
- Smart Speaker Ownership Hits 19% Globally, 35% In U.S.
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Ownership of home digital assistants has been growing dramatically over the last year but it looks like there will be some holdouts in adopting the smart speakers. Digital assistants li ...
- Apple, Google Rank As Top Two Most Valuable Brands
Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, May 23, 2018
The 100 most valuable brands on Forbes' list, published Wednesday, are worth a cumulative $2.15 billion -- up 10% from a year ago. The list begins with Apple -- wi ...
- Apple Hires Former Google Head Of AI
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Apple has hired John Giannandrea as the company's first svp of AI, according to one report -- news that makes me think of the possibilities of search at Apple. ...
- Samsung Leads Developer Conference With Voice Assistant Bixby 2.0
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Thursday, October 19, 2017
Samsung is taking another shot at AI. When the company's latest smartphone, the Galaxy S8, was introduced several months back, Samsung's voice assistant Bixby didn't come with it. At t ...
- 157 Shades Of Grey
Media Insider, Gord Hotchkiss - Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Design is important. Thinking through how people will respond to the aesthetics of your product is an admirable thing. I remember once having the pleasure of sharing a stage wi ...
- 45 Billion Connected Devices Projected
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Monday, August 28, 2017
The number of Internet-connected devices is nowhere near its ceiling. There already are more than 12 billion IoT devices, which may seem trivial in years to come. The number ...
- Apple's Siri Loses 7 Million Users, But Remains Top Digital Assistant
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Thursday, July 13, 2017
AI-powered personal assistant apps are spreading in certain parts of the market while others take a downward turn. While Apple's Siri is still the top-ranking personal app based on t ...
- Amazon Echo, Google Home Online Sales Up 39%
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Thursday, June 29, 2017
Google Home and Amazon's Alexa devices are seeing strong sales online, with Google raking in the cash. Online sales of the devices combined are up 39% from last year, bas ...
- Amazon's Echo Show Leads Apple's HomePod
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Thursday, June 15, 2017
Despite Apple's ability to turn phones into gold, its foray into the smart speaker market dominated by Amazon is facing much more of an uphill climb. Apple's Siri-controlled HomePod, recent ...
- Apple HomePod In The UK For Christmas -- Expect To Pay GBP349
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Apple's HomePod speaker will be released in the UK in December in a bid, "The Mirror" speculates, to attract the Christmas market. Its release will see Siri take on Amazon ...
- Apple's Safari Browser Will Block Auto-Play Videos
Digital News Daily, Tobi Elkin - Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Apple is following Google's lead into ad blocking. At its global developer's conference, Apple said the latest version of its Safari Web browser won't show auto-play videos on Web site ...
- Zive Introduces Kiwi For Gmail On Windows
Email Marketing Daily, Jess Nelson - Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Zive unveiled a new desktop email client for Windows on Tuesday that fully supports Google's G Suite. ...
- Consumers Trust Apple, Amazon Over Google, Microsoft For Voice Payments
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Voice assistants are gaining consumer trust for making payments. While most consumers have yet to make a payment by voice, such as through Amazon Alexa or Google Home, many alrea ...
- Google Pushes Apple Out Of Top Brand Spot
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Thursday, March 30, 2017
Tech brands are increasingly dominant despite recent Google and Uber controversies. California's brands have the greatest combined value -- 23% of the national total. ...
- 102 Million Wearables Ship, As Apple, Google Shift Focus
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Thursday, March 2, 2017
The wearables market is growing, but even more significantly, it is shifting. The worldwide wearables market reached an all-time high in the last quarter, but there's some serious company pivoti ...
- Marfeel Gives Publishers Mobile Access To Apple News
Mobile Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Marfeel, which helps monetize mobile traffic, released technology on Wednesday that allows publishers to quickly integrate their news feeds with Apple News, which pulls the publisher's content into Apple's mobi ...
- Apple's Power Prompts BT To Back Google In Brussels
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, February 7, 2017
BT has backed Google in its competition battle with Brussels over the tech giant's smartphone operating system, Android, in an intervention that signals the nervousness of mobile operators over t ...
- Alphabet Bumps Apple From Top Spot
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Tuesday, February 7, 2017
"The social impact of a brand is just as important as the financial strength of a brand," says Davis Brand Capital's Patrick T. Davis. ...
- Google Pips Apple To Most Valuable Brand Top Spot
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, February 1, 2017
The likes of McDonald's, KFC and Coca-Cola all experienced declines in Brand Finance's Global 500 rankings for 2016, with Apple pipped by Google as the world's most valuable brand. ...
- 25 Million More Voice Assistants Coming This Year; Amazon, Google Dominate
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Monday, January 23, 2017
Voice assistants are coming in a big way this year. Last year, 7 million voice-first devices, most notably Amazon Echo and Google Home, hit the market. That was up fr ...
- Apple Devices Dominate Holiday Giving
Mobile Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, December 28, 2016
What types of mobile gifts were people unwrapping, this holiday season? Well, 44% of new phone and tablet activations were Apple devices. With only two devices -- the Pixel a ...
- Google Takes On The iPhone With Pixel
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, October 5, 2016
The Google Pixel and Pixel XL are the first smartphones designed by the company and which bear its name. At GBP599, or from GBP719 for the XL, the Pixel ...
- Cutdown Version of Google's Product Intro
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Here in a nutshell is a snippet version of new stuff--the Pixel phone and Daydream VR headset and more--that Google unveiled yesterday. ...
- Ad Limiting Going Mobile, Thanks To Apple
Programmatic Insider, John Motavalli - Wednesday, September 14, 2016
With Apple building a form of ad limitation into its latest mobile operating system, watch out, ad tech. ...
- Google Planning Smartphone Launch
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, June 27, 2016
Google is planning a shake-up of the smartphone market by releasing its own handset, a move that would tighten its grip on mobile software and see it compete directly wi ...
- Apple Opens Up Siri, Maps And iMessage To Third Parties
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Siri, Maps and iMessage are now open to developers -- a tacit admission that Apple can't build the perfect software alone. That means on iOS 10, expected in September, Si ...
