Category: Digital Experience

How to Grow Your Text Message Opt-Ins

While channels such as web and email remain popular, there’s one communication channel that continues to spectacularly outperform every other channel when it comes to driving retail traffic with immediate engagement. That channel is sending a mobile text message via...

Monzo’s Outage Shows How FinTech Upstarts Are Still at The Teething Stage

Payments to and from some of the buzziest names in UK FinTech were briefly down yesterday (Thursday) morning as the likes of Monzo, Starling Bank, Revolut, Loot and Curve suffered knock-on effects from an outage at one of their technology...

5G Experts Given £16m Backing to Propel Britain to Forefront of Mobile Technology

A world-class 5G technology test network will aim to put Britain at the forefront of the next wave of mobile technology, according to the government, potentially injecting up to £173bn to the economy by 2030. Experts from 5G research institutions at...

Three Hotly-tipped Healthtech Startups Selected for Pfizer’s London Hub

The first cohort for pharma giant Pfizer’s inaugural Healthcare Hub London programme has been announced with three hotly-tipped startups set to benefit guidance and advice from Pfizer’s internal and industry experts. On-demand care provider Cera, prescription app Echo and Give Vision,...

Accenture Aims to Bring AI-powered Programmatic to Streaming Video

Dive Brief: Accenture Interactive, the agency division of the global management consultancy Accenture, is rolling out a programmatic tool that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) technology to overlay product placements on streaming video content, according to Digiday. For example, a video ad served...

All the Changes and New Features Coming to Your iPhone’s Camera in iOS 11

There are exciting changes coming to your iPhone’s camera. The Apple iPhone’s latest operating system, iOS 11, won’t officially be available until this fall, but Apple gave us a look at what’s coming (and what’s currently available for developers to try). When...

London’s Busiest Rail Routes Could Soon Be Getting Onboard Contactless Ticketing Thanks to This Tech Firm

London-headquartered payments firm Worldline has sealed a major contract with Govia Thameslink that will see it deliver its mobile ticketing platform across the operator’s franchises and networks. As part of the deal, Govia Thameslink Railway will implement Worldine’s Mobile Ticket Service...

Aldi to Install 96,000 Solar Panels Across UK Stores This Year

German discount supermarket chain Aldi has today (5 July) announced it will install 96,000 solar panels across more than 50 UK stores by the end of 2017. The announcement marks a significant step in Aldi’s ambition to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)...

Exclusive: EU Considers Record Fine as Panel Checks Google Android Case – Sources

EU antitrust regulators are weighing another record fine against Google over its Android mobile operating system and have set up a panel of experts to give a second opinion on the case, two people familiar with the matter said. Assuming the...

Parcelly Wins Fujitsu Award for Responsible Business in The Digital Age at The BITC Awards 2017!

We have HUGE news… Parcelly has been announced as a winner of ‘The Fujitsu Award for Responsible Business in the Digital Age’ at the Business in the Community’s Responsible Business Awards 2017! Now running for more than 20 years, the prestigious BITC Awards ceremony took place...