Samsung gets FDA approval for a sleep apnea feature on Galaxy Watch The company will roll out the tool later this year. Kris Holt Fri, Feb 9, 2024 Samsung The Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to a sleep apnea detection feature on Galaxy Watch devices in the US, Samsung has … Continue reading Samsung gets FDA approval for a sleep apnea feature on Galaxy Watch
Search Gets Buried In Hints Of Commerce Ad Budget Increases by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, January 26, 2024 What do marketers get when combining performance marketing, commerce content, and affiliate marketing? A new study by German-based Mrge, a global platform for commerce advertising, defines the combination as “commerce advertising” in the report, titled the State … Continue reading Search Gets Buried In Hints Of Commerce Ad Budget Increases
Company also puts a “temporary” ban on advertising to minors to avoid violating new EU privacy protections. Nicola Agius on October 30, 2023 Meta is rolling out ad-free subscriptions for Facebook and Instagram users in Europe. It is also putting a “temporary” ban on ads to those under 18. People over 18 in the EU, … Continue reading Europe gets ad-free Facebook and Instagram subscriptions
New tech from GumGum over lays content on video for five seconds at a contextually appropriate moment. Constantine von Hoffman on October 25, 2023 A CTV ad campaign for The Trevor Project, which helps LGBTQ young people in crisis, has achieved remarkable results, including a 31% increase in recall among 18- to 34-year-old viewers, according … Continue reading PSA campaign gets impressive results from new adtech
Apple’s much-maligned Studio Display webcam gets manual framing MacOS Sonoma also brings updated controls to the iPhone Continuity Camera feature. Steve Dent Wed, Sep 27, 2023 Photo by Devindra Hardawar / Engadget Apple has released a firmware update for its Studio Display to improve its poorly reviewed 12-megapixel ultrawide webcam, it said in the … Continue reading Apple’s much-maligned Studio Display webcam gets manual framing
‘Hey, Google’ Gets An AI Makeover – With Layoffs by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 1, 2023 Google’s virtual assistant reportedly will get a makeover by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into the platform similar to its Bard chatbot. The updates will change the way Assistant works. For now, the company will support both old and … Continue reading ‘Hey, Google’ Gets An AI Makeover – With Layoffs
YouTube Shorts Gets Ad-Measurement Tools Supported By IAS, DV by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 27, 2023 YouTube Shorts, Google’s short-form video experience for users, expanded relationships with Integral Ad Science (IAS), which focuses on global media measurement and optimization, and DoubleVerify (DV), a software platform for digital media measurement, data and analytics. The news from IAS … Continue reading YouTube Shorts Gets Ad-Measurement Tools Supported By Integral Ad Science
Microsoft Bing Gets Nod After Canadian Official Accuses Google Of ‘Blackmailing’ Canada by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 12, 2023 One Canadian Senator is calling on residents to join him in switching their search engines to Bing in response to the fallout over the federal government’s Online News Act that will see Google and Meta block … Continue reading Microsoft Bing Gets Nod After Canadian Official Accuses Google Of ‘Blackmailing’ Canada
By Associated Press July 07, 2023 Chinese regulators are fining Ant Group 7.123 billion yuan ($985 million), claiming the financial technology provider violated laws related to corporate governance and consumer rights. The People’s Bank of China imposed the fine on Friday. “We will comply with the terms of the penalty in all earnestness and … Continue reading Ant Group, Jack Ma-founded fintech giant, gets fined almost $1 billion by China regulators
Cherlynn Low @cherlynnlow Years. Some of us in the industry have been waiting close to ten years for the long-rumored Pixel Watch. Now that it’s here, expectations are naturally high. After all, Google had all that time to finetune its first smartwatch, and everyone’s been anxious to see if this could be the product … Continue reading Fossil finally gets Google Assistant on its Wear OS 3 smartwatches
