Tag: wider angles

In recent months, Facebook’s seeming invincible hull has been badly damaged. There was the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, its role in the rumbling “fake news” debate and then, at the end of last month, the slowdown...

Earlier this year, Pandora announced plans to create a ‘podcast genome project’ comparable to its earlier work around music recommendations. Now CEO Roger Lynch says the project will soon be ready for public consumption. “Pandora...

For all the focus on Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri, it’s been clear this year that voice assistants developed by Chinese technology companies are going to play a big role in the future of smart speakers – and indeed,...

It’s not vapourware! The Magic Leap One Creator Edition mixed-reality headset is actually shipping this week, with a few restrictions. Not least the price: the headset, computing pack and controller costs a cool $2,295,...

Imagine if your startup’s SEED funding round was for a cool billion dollars? That’s the case for NewTV, which is the online-video startup being launched by former Disney and DreamWorks exec Jeffrey Katzenberg and former...

Snap, Inc reported its latest quarterly financial results last night, and the show the first ever quarterly decline in daily active users (DAUs) since Snapchat first launched. Ouch. Snapchat ended June with 188 million...

‘Made it your own’ has become one of the clichés for TV talent-show X Factor, usually deployed by a judge when a contestant has bellowed a popular song into oblivion. Thankfully, that’s not the usage adopted by...

‘Time well spent’ is the new mantra doing the rounds in Silicon Valley, as technology companies take action (or at least strive to be *seen* to be taking action) to help people look up from their smartphones every once...

Research firm Nielsen has published its latest Total Audience Report, covering the first quarter of 2018 and exploring how American adults use media. And? “American adults spend over 11 hours per day listening to, watching,...

Apple’s quarterly financial results are always the trigger for a new round of figures on the global smartphone market, and such was the case yesterday. Research firms IDC and Strategy Analytics agree on the key trend:...

We’ll get the caveat in upfront: a new study of online piracy by researchers at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law is “financed by Google” – although its authors say the project was “conducted...

There have been quite a few fanciful studies in recent times claiming to have estimated the amount celebrities are ‘worth’ on Instagram, based on their number of followers and how much that might be worth *if* they were...