Singapore’s National Day has broken the record for the highest number of tweets around a single event in the country, which celebrated its 50th birthday. More than 230,000 tweets about #NDP2015 and all things related to the National Day Parade were posted for the city-state’s super-hyped celebrations. The climax of SG50 beat the last record […]
Internet giants Google, Facebook and Twitter have teamed up with the Internet Watch Foundation, an anti-child abuse charity, to pull indecent images from the web which have been identified by unique ‘hash’ codes. Not to be confused with a hashtag these codes are actually a photo-tagging system used to identify lists of inappropriate images for […]
Toyota has seized on Siri voice control and uses a radio spot to interact with drivers’ mobile phones. Saatchi & Saatchi, together with the motoring giants, developed the ad, in order to get people to think twice before using the cell phone while driving. The radio spot simply communicates to the mobile to switch itself […]
A third now see their smartphone as the preferred device to access the internet, while 4G subscriptions grew tenfold over the course of last year. Smartphones have now overtaken laptops as the most popular device for getting online, with record ownership and use key drivers. This is according to Ofcom’s 2015 Communications Market Report, published, […]
About 40 per cent of global eCommerce transactions involve multiple devices prior to purchase, highlighted Criteo in its Q2 results. Mobile commerce accounted for 27 per cent of all eCommerce in Southeast Asia, putting the region at a similar level to Spain and Italy, and right behind the US. The APAC region accounted for nearly […]
I-D, the fashion title owned by Vice, has set up an online luxury lifestyle channel called Amuse. The video and editorial platform is aimed at a “young and culturally conscious international audience”. Xerxes Cook, the founding editor of Purple Travel and Postmatter, has been named the editor-in-chief at Amuse. Tash Tan has been appointed the […]