- Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Rolls Out Second Venture
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, December 4, 2020
Efforce uses blockchain technology, allowing consumers to participate in and benefit from energy-efficient technology and programs with a smart contract and tokens. ...
- Big Tech Lobbies Biden To End Trump's Immigration Policies
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, November 16, 2020
Critics say the immigration policies make it more difficult for skilled workers to acquire visas and require companies that hire "high-skilled" foreign workers with H-1B visas to pay them clo ...
- Lotame Nabs Former Verizon Media VP Eliza Nevers, Pushing To Keep An Open Web
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, November 13, 2020
Nevers held leadership positions in product and strategy at Verizon Media, Advertising.com, and AOL and helped develop and launch AOL's first DSP, SSP, and DMP and its Unified Advertising platfo ...
- Microsoft Releases Targeting Segments For Holiday Events, Starting With Black Friday
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Supporting advertisers specifically during holiday events, Microsoft said it will release its seasonal shopping targeting segments this month, starting with Black Friday, in the U.S. ...
- Sarbacane Group Pulls In $27 Million In Funding
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, September 8, 2020
The French company, the parent of email service Mailify, plans to continue investing in R&D. ...
- Cofense, Anti-Phishing Firm, Lands Additional Funding
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, April 29, 2020
The new investment from BlackRock Privacy Equity Partners will fund R&D and global expansion. And Tom McDonough has joined the Cofense board of directors. ...
- Volkswagen Commits $66 Billion For Future Cars
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Sunday, November 17, 2019
That figure accounts for slightly more than 40% of VW's investments in property, plant and equipment and all research and development costs. ...
- Google Open-Sources Its Cardboard Augmented Reality Project
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, November 7, 2019
Google is allowing developers to create experiences for Android and iOS devices to entice them to build apps for its Cardboard augmented reality project, but will they provide Search experien ...
- For TV Networks, Fewer Pilots: Shows Faster To Market -- Or Just More Content?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 4, 2019
There are 32% fewer pilots now for TV networks than four years ago, Ampere Analysis says. A good guess why: TV networks want to save big bucks. ...
- Del Monte Foods Picks Organic Growth Over Acquisition
CPG FYI, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, June 21, 2019
CMO Bibie Wu reports a 25% YoY hike in Del Monte's marketing budget among the factors supporting a slew of new, non-canned products. ...
- Foursquare To Buy Placed From Snap Inc.
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, May 31, 2019
Foursquare has agreed to buy rival Placed from Snap Inc. and plans to make Placed Attribution its flagship measurement product. ...
- UK Lags Behind Competitors On R&D Spending
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, May 14, 2019
A report from industry organisation Tech Nation had found that R&D spending in the UK is lagging behind competitors, "The Telegraph" reports. However, the research does show there is ...
- Latest Google AR Tech Might Be A Wake-Up Call For Marketers
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 10, 2019
To say that Google's advertising and marketing technologies have become sophisticated is an understatement. ...
- The Tao Of Unilever, Part 2: Amazing AI Applications
CPG FYI, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, May 7, 2019
With a massive data hub and a digital army using AI to glean consumer insights, Unilever is hitting home runs with market-specific new products. ...
- Google Purchases $40M In Fossil Smartwatch Intellectual Property
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 17, 2019
Fossil's tech research and development group will join Google to support the intellectual property transfer. The company says Fossil Group will retain more than 200 R&D team members to foc ...
- Microsoft, Walmart Expand Cloud Partnership To Engineering, Open Texas Facility
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, November 5, 2018
Microsoft and Walmart, two of the most innovative companies, will open an engineering office as part of a partnership based on cloud computing announced earlier this year. ...
- What Google Investments Tell Marketers About Its Search Roadmap
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 28, 2018
CB Insights estimates that about 86% of revenue overall comes from advertising, but rising ad costs, increased regulations, heightened competition, and a shift to mobile and voice are threatening Google ...
- Google Invests $22 Million In KaiOS Running On Nokia Mobile Phone
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 28, 2018
The companies will collaborate to make Google Assistant, Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Search available to users running KaiOS, a Linux-based mobile operating system. These apps are being developed specifical ...
- Apple Ramps Up Search In Photos, Turns Off Tracking In Apps
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, June 4, 2018
The upgraded search feature that Apple will launch in the Photos app runs on iOS to provide the best way to find and share photos for events, locations and peopl ...
- Google Assistant, Wrapped In AI, Takes Center Stage
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Google put AI center stage at its I/O event, with CEO Sundar Pichai discussing how it will use AI to make meaningful change in the world. ...
- Google Research Rebrands, With Focus On Artificial Intelligence
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, May 8, 2018
The move follows the appointment of Jeff Dean to head of AI at Google. Dean, who joined Google in mid-1999, helped to design and implement the initial version of Google ...
- Apple Sends Emails To The Wrong Developers: Reports
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Apple has sent emails to app developers containing ad-spend details on other developers' apps, according to media reports. ...
- Google Teaches AI To Build AI For Beginners, Starts With Images
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Teams at Google have begun to use artificial intelligence to develop a suite of machine-learning products that enable developers with limited skills to build their own custom system. A Visi ...
- What Google's Second Chance In China Means To Search Marketers
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt reportedly said at a tech conference in Beijing that Google never left China -- but the Chinese government might differ with that statement. Google's services ha ...
- Apple Releases Core ML Docs, Demonstrates Plans To Build Out AI Network
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Apple announced a new machine-learning API framework this week aimed at making mobile AI technology run faster, and published documentation on how developers can integrate the technology into their produ ...
- Google Rebuilds AdMob, Offers New Digital Payment Options And Partner Program
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, May 17, 2017
The new AdMob was built based on what Google calls Material Design, a new suite of tools and open-source projects intended to make product design easier. Ads through AdMob a ...
- Dentsu Aegis Launches Data Innovation Center
MAD, Steve McClellan - Friday, September 30, 2016
The new operation, based in Singapore, will develop and produce innovative applications and will serve as a hub for data scientists and technology talent for the entire network. The n ...
- Inviting Developers To Reshape Siri: Is Apple Desperate?
Mobile Insider, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, June 9, 2016
A product of Steve Jobs and his view that elegant design requires single-minded control, Apple has always seen impenetrability as a virtue. That's why a report that Apple will op ...
- Outbrain Closes New $45 Million Funding Round
Real-Time Daily, Tobi Elkin - Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Content discovery engine Outbrain on Tuesday announced that it has closed a new $45 million funding round. ...
- Facebook Hires Google's Advanced Technology Head To Lead R&D, Hardware Development
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, April 13, 2016
In a major coup, Facebook has poached Regina Dugan, who led Google's Advanced Technology And Products team since 2012. At Facebook, Dugan will be leading Building 8, a new un ...