Sir Marin Sorell the former CEO of WPP who resigned in April 2018 which he founded and grew into the world’s biggest advertising holding group, embroiled in contro0versy over his departure. Ken Auletta states in the last chapter of Frenemies, “Seventy-two and still robust, Martin Sorrell was unlikely to step down any time soon” which…
Are you an app developer and the incredible importance of mobile apps in all areas of our life, even to communicate and measure our running or workout. With the new top-level domain app developers, cam professionally promote their app via an associated website. With a website featuring a .app domain, you create a central point…
Google is preparing to expand Tez , the mobile payments platform that it successfully launched in India in September 2017. Tez, the mobile payment app giving a unified payments interface developed by the National Payments Corporation of India launched on September 19, 2017 for Android and iOS and Microsoft Windows. It is popular because you…
Alphabet’s Google acquired Redux, in August 2017, a firm that uses vibrations to turn displays into speaker. Redux which raised $5 million in March 2017, a funding backed by Arie Capital. Redux creates products and bespoke systems that enable high-resolution haptic feedback and speaker less surround audio as it eliminates the need for small speakers…
Seven weeks after hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, in late September 2017, the island has struggled to repair power lines, water pumps, cell phone towers, roads and bridges. The electrical system and power provider Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority was bankrupt going into the disaster, despite that they have managed to reconnect 40 per cent…
James Damore, a Google engineer, who had been on a PhD programme in systems biology at Harvard University, wrote a memo arguing that women were less suited than men to engineering and leadership jobs in the tech industry have been sacked. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, sharply criticised the engineer, saying that he had breached…
Google was charged £36.4m in UK corporation tax last year. The Search engine giant recorded sales of £1.03bn and a pre-tax profit of £149, in the UK for the 12 months to the end of June 2016 according to its latest accounts. Google also revealed that they have hired an extra 600 workers to take…
The Project Loon team, Part of Google’s X research lab, said it was able to use machine learning to predict weather systems and they are a “Year closer” to rolling out a network with huge balloons to provide high-speed connectivity to rural areas. They have greater control over where its balloons go so that it concentrate…
Google’s purchase of Software developer Apigee is certainly a boom for B2b marketers. The search engine giant has agreed to pay £482m ($625m) for Apigee Corp, a provider of cloud-based software tools that companies use to develop and manage application programming and interfaces, or APIs to transfer data between applications like e- commerce sites…
Google Duo is the new simple video calling app that brings face-to-face with all the people that matter most for you. Google on Tuesday launched Duo, a one-to-one, end-to-end encrypted video called app that is now available on Android and iOS devices. With Duo Google takes on Apple’s FaceTime, Microsoft’s Skype and Facebook’s Messenger App.…