By Tim Maytom Online travel tech company Kayak has added two new tools to its app, ‘Hotel for Tonight’ and ‘Explore’, in response for increasing consumer demand for last minute hotel bookings. Research by the firm has shown that 50 per cent of hotel bookings made on its app are booked within 48 hours of […]
By Tim Maytom People are growing increasingly emotionally attached to their smartphones, claims a study by researchers from Loughborough University and the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. The team behind the paper surveyed 205 smartphone users between the ages of 16 and 64, from a range of countries including the UK, China, Canada, Peru and […]
By Tim Maytom Facebook is testing a new service called ‘Place Tips’ which will deliver information on shops and landmarks to nearby users by integrating Bluetooth beacons, GPS signals, wi-fi and cellphone signals. The service will initially be tested in New York, with beacons placed in eight stores including the Strand Book Store, The Metropolitan […]
By Tim Maytom First it was Dr Dre’s Beats Music service, which was purchased by Apple for £3bn (£1.9bn). Now, Jay-Z is making a move into the streaming music business with a kr464m (£37m) bid for Swedish firm Aspiro, which operates the WiMP Music and Tidal services and apps. Project Panther, a company owned by […]
By Tim Maytom Retail mobile websites are seeing a resurgence as shoppers seeking a wealth of information prefer them over apps, which often offer a streamlined experience, a new report claims. The report by Siteworx shows that 63 per cent of consumers are more likely to shop using a mobile web site rather than an […]
By Tim Maytom If you’ve been to one of Dot Media’s events, you’ll know that our Innovation Lab hosts companies presenting cutting-edge technology that’s poised to transform the market with groundbreaking ideas and solutions. In that spirit, we’ve taken a step beyond the world of apps, ads and handsets with slightly bigger screens, in order […]
By David Murphy Supply Side Platform (SSP) PubMatic has partnered with advertising and marketing information firm Kantar Media to make guaranteed advertising inventory from its portfolio of premium publishers and mobile app developers available in Kantar’s SRDS.com media planning platform, creating an automated guaranteed solution for media buyers. The partnership launches with 20 leading publishers […]
By David Murphy Global smartphone shipments passed the 1bn mark for the first time in 2014, according to figures from Juniper Research. Over 1.2bn smartphones were shipped during 2014, the analyst says, 375m in the final quarter. Samsung shipped an estimated 315m smartphones in 2014, accounting for 25 per cent of the total. However, the […]
By David Murphy Google has announced Q4 profits of $4.8bn (£3.2bn), a 41 per cent year-on-year increase, off the back of revenues of $18.1bn (up 15.3 per cent year-on-year), but still managed to disappoint analysts, who had been hoping for a figure of $18.46bn. Google put some of the shortfall down to the strength of […]
By David Murphy Google has announced Q4 profits of $4.8bn (£3.2bn), a 41 per cent year-on-year increase, off the back of revenues of $18.1bn (up 15.3 per cent year-on-year), but still managed to disappoint analysts, who had been hoping for a figure of $18.46bn. Google put some of the shortfall down to the strength of […]