Nissan reveals ‘secret’ driverless car tests in London
Carmaker Nissan has been quietly testing its new driverless cars on public roads in London. Using modified ‘Leaf’ models, the company says its week-long trial is the first time anywhere in Europe that autonomous cars have been let loose on the public highway. The...NHS uses Snapchat to attract new recruits during National Apprenticeship Week
The NHS, the UK’s largest employer, is turning to Snapchat for a social media campaign aimed at attracting apprentices to the health service during the Government’s 10th National Apprenticeship Week. The Snapchat campaign – which is a first for the Health Education...Top 10 trends at Mobile World Congress 2017: 5G, IoT and robots
Mobile World Congress has become one of the biggest tech events in the digital calendar, and this year was even bigger, with robots, AI and old school Nokia’s stealing the show. Taking place every 12 months in Barcelona, the gigantic tech show is a chance for...Snapchat attracts 42 million fans to NFL content
Last week saw Snapchat become a public company, revealing some key audience usage figures in the process… including a huge audience for its NFL content The popular chat app claimed that 42 million people watched its NFL content this season, up from 30 million during...Snapchat beats expectations as stock leaps 44% on stock market debut
Snap Inc, the owner of messaging app Snapchat, has gone public after months of speculation, with shares initially priced at $17, with stocks jumping 44% to US$24.48 on the first day of trading. It brings the value of the business to $28bn, making it the biggest...Nokia 3310 nostalgia overshadows iPhone and Samsung
Nokia’s relaunch of its classic 3310 – the first mass-market mobile phone – has prompted a significant peak in consumer engagement with the brand, as half (50%) of consumers say they have read or heard about Nokia in the past week, according to a survey by Harris 24....Snapchat IPO: Massive £19bn valuation despite revealing losses
Snap Inc, the owner of Snapchat, is set to make its debut on the New York Stock Exchange today with a better-than-expected market valuation of $24bn (£19bn). The company has priced 200 million shares at $17 apiece, with investors demand helping the tech start-up to...LINE debuts AI assistant for mobile messenger
Mobile messaging app LINE has launched a cloud AI assistant called “Clova” at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Clova – an abbreviation of “Cloud Virtual Assistant” – is the result of a collaboration between LINE and NAVER Corporation, Korea’s leading...Snapchat demographics: US “less dominated by 18-24s compared to UK”
Ahead of today’s expected Snapchat IPO, Verto Analytics loos at how US usage of the popular messaging app compares to the UK data. • 18-24s account for 57% of U.S. Snapchat usage, compared to 70% in the U.K. The same is also true for Instagram (34% in the U.S., 43% in...European app trends in 2017: Business apps on the rise
UK app usage has increased by 28% in the last year as Brits turn to their phones for social and professional tasks, according to the latest report from Flurry.
Nokia relaunches iconic 3310 mobile model
Former mobile market leader Nokia has re-released its classic 3310 model at Mobile World Congress, 17 years after it was first launched. The iconic handset was a massive hit with users back in 2000 and now the mobile phone giant is relaunching it with a month-long...AOL strikes global mobile data deal with Adsquare
At Mobile World Congress, AOL and mobile data exchange, adsquare, announced a new partnership to bring adsquare’s unique data of 360 million mobile consumers globally together with the ONE by AOL platform. Using adsquare’s unique combination of anonymised data sources...Oracle teams with Mastercard for new digital payments system
At Mobile World Congress, Mastercard announced a global partnership with Oracle that is designed to deliver a streamlined digital payment experience to the retail and hospitality industries. The partnership will initially focus on three needs for restaurants, hotels...British preference for going online on smartphones nearly doubled over 5 years
Preference for going online via trusty smartphones has doubled in 5 years in the UK, according to new research from Google. In 2012 one in three people owned a smartphone, and now just four years later a whopping 70% now own one. A new report from Google documents...Boredom in Britain is at an all-time low… due to our smartphones
A survey of 2,000 Brits over 35 found that eight in 10 are rarely or never bored, because with their phone nearby there’s always something to do. Twenty per cent of Brits say they are “never” without their phones, and three quarters reckon their lives are better...WhatsApp takes on Snapchat with expiring messages
WhatsApp is adding a new feature that lets users tag messages ‘at this moment’ which vanish once opened, or after 24 hours. The feature was beta tested with users in November last year and will become available on iOS, Android and Windows platforms starting February...Mobile to overtake TV as top video screen in UK
Mobile is set to be the number one video screen in the UK, leading to a predicted increase in mobile ad spend in 2017, according to new research. The global piece of research from AOL is released just ahead of Mobile World Congress 2017, was conducted in seven markets...Samsung warns customers not to discuss personal information in front of smart TVs
Samsung has confirmed that its smart TV sets are listening to customers’ every word, and the company is warning customers not to speak about personal information while near the TV sets. Left: Samsung SmartTV privacy policy, warning users not to discuss personal...Google Assistant takes on Amazon Echo with shopping tools
Google has added shopping functionality to its smart speaker Google Assistant, as it looks to take on the popularity of Amazon Echo.
