Cashless Is King Sep 11, 2017 money technology banking mobile payments ... reports that 57% of its 15 million monthly active users are Gens Y and Z aged 13-24.Facebook Messenger Two years after introducing peer-to-peer payment within Facebook Messenger, the social media network is facilitating group payments, too. Users can charge or pay each member of a group chat, making it easy to split the bill for things like group birthday gifts or restaurant bills.WeChat WeChat, a popular messaging app in China, is seeing expansive growth in its payment service WeChatPay, which ...
The Privacy Premium Dec 11, 2014 technology anonymous privacy security social media ... , according to some reports, receiving anywhere from 4k to 30k+ requests an hour. The platform is being positioned as an empowerment tool in that it provides users with “a place to connect, create, and celebrate life” without becoming a product themselves.Social networking app Room allows users to create and join mini private chat rooms that require just a nickname and avatar. Anyone can create a network, then invite others to join using a password. The app promises “what happens in the room, stays in the ...
POP Global Jun 13, 2014 global media & entertainment festivals music ... An overview of key pop culture trends from around the world LIVE WEB ENTERTAINMENT THRIVING IN CHINAEach night, millions of young people in China are going online to watch live amateur performances, as The New York Times reports. These low-budget webcam broadcasts, which include karaoke, comedy skits, and talk shows, have become a wildly popular and profitable business. YY.com is the leader in this space, with 92 million monthly active users and more than a million channels. The site displays ...
State Of The Art Sep 15, 2018 ... in its first year. Heliograf generates short reports and alerts that free up the human journalists to do more high value work. Strategists at the Post see an even greater role for Heliograf going forward: one where it does real-time legwork for human journalists during their more substantive reporting.Sonnet-Writing A.I. IBM Research Australia created a bot that, after being trained on 2,600 real sonnets, writes sonnets in the style and structure of William Shakespeare. While the poems seem like ...
Marketing Tips Mar 10, 2016 marketing social consciousness causes and issues corporate responsibility ... City” campaign, which examines the faces and racial mix of major cities around the world and derives a face that’s most representative of the people who live there. The retailer used statistical and demographic analysis, as well as city-specific census reports to understand the makeup of Milan, London, Tokyo, New York, Paris, and Berlin. The results accurately reflect the proportion of each city's specific racial mix through features such as skin tone, eye and nose shape, hair type and color, and ...
Reality Bites Dec 03, 2016 media & entertainment technology augmented reality virtual reality ... is a 360-degree, fully immersive virtual reality story that takes viewers along for the ride.Fifty Shades Darker Deadline reports that special virtual-reality footage from the world of Fifty Shades Darker will be released with other marketing materials ahead of the upcoming Valentine’s Day release of the Fifty Shades of Grey sequel, giving fans behind-the-scenes glimpses of the erotic fiction’s newest adaptation.Ghostbusters The Void teamed up with Sony Pictures to develop the first ...
Digital Etiquette Dec 17, 2013 communication marketing social media Emotional Intelligence ... bombings had taken place.An automated tweet by Live Nation asked followers to share their Instagram photos of a Radiohead show, after news reports that the stage had collapsed killing one person and injuring three others were issued. - 2. HASHTAG THOUGHTFULLY - Having surpassed the bounds of Twitter, hashtags can be spotted pretty much everywhere: on Facebook and Instagram, in emails and texts, even on print ads and billboards. The excess has inspired a well-parodied bout of hashtag fatigue among ...
Control Center Mar 25, 2018 health & wellness technology quantified self ... seeking to detox. Mute is a screen time tracker that sends push notifications when phone usage gets to be too much. The service tracks and monitors when users actually check their phones, sending motivational messages with emojis when they refrain from doing so. Updates come in daily and weekly progress reports so that users can track their progress or lack thereof.Thrive Arianna Huffington launched Thrive Global in an effort to improve people's health and overall performance, and she took it one step ...
Control Center 21+ Mar 25, 2018 health & wellness technology quantified self ... seeking to detox. Mute is a screen time tracker that sends push notifications when phone usage gets to be too much. The service tracks and monitors when users actually check their phones, sending motivational messages with emojis when they refrain from doing so. Updates come in daily and weekly progress reports so that users can track their progress or lack thereof.Thrive Arianna Huffington launched Thrive Global in an effort to improve people's health and overall performance, and she took it one step ...
Need For Speed Sep 20, 2018 ... vending machine dedicated solely to puffer vests, the de facto uniform of the west coast-based tech industry, in the San Francisco airport last August; recent reports show that the machine vends $10,000 worth of vests a month. Being laser-focused on servicing a specific need in a quick and convenient way is an actionable way brands can ensure that they cut down on the length of time between a consumer’s realization that they want a product or service and the time it takes them to get it. In this way ...