Digital challenger bank Starling is the first to support Fitbit Pay in the UK October 24, 2017 Customers of digital challenger Starling will be able to pay using their Fitbit smartwatch as it becomes the first bank in the UK to support Fitbit Pay. It marks the wider roll out of the wearable tech company’s challenger to Apple Watch. The Ionic smartwatch launched initially last month in the US, its newest device [...]
The future may be powered by data, but it must be piloted by humans October 24, 2017 Of the six most valuable companies in the world, five are tech firms, whose worth is embodied less in physical assets than in intellectual property and customer data. Apple and Microsoft provide the tools to connect people, and to collect and process data. Google, Facebook and Amazon provide services, and in return accumulate more data [...]
Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL review: Simply the best Android phones ever made October 18, 2017 Google’s new phones are rather good. The Pixel 2 and its bigger brother the Pixel 2 XL (identical in every way but shape, size, price and battery) are straightforwardly excellent. They are simply the best Android phones ever made. Life-changing, envelope-pushing, they can shift a paradigm from fifty paces. They do your laundry, improve your [...]
Snap Inc and NBC are going to make scripted shows together for Snapchat in original content push October 17, 2017 Snap is getting further into creating its own content and is just the latest tech company to do so, partnering with US media giant NBCUniversal. They will work together to produce scripted shows for the messaging app Snapchat, the two announced early this morning. Snap has already dipped its toes in the waters of TV-style [...]
Time to treat Google and Facebook as the media giants they really are October 17, 2017 The boss of WPP, Sir Martin Sorrell, has views on a wide range of topics, from the global economy, to Brexit, to the advertising world. One of his views is that Facebook and Google are media companies, and should be seen as such. And in this, he is absolutely right. Read more: Dow Jones newswire [...]
How AI could change the way you save for retirement October 13, 2017 A conversation in the not-too-distant future: Sarah: Hi Eva. Eva*: Hi Sarah, how’s it going? You came home early today. Yeah, I wasn't feeling too well so thought I would have an early night. What’s the problem? I have a booming headache and a runny nose. Sound’s terrible. Would you like me to order [...]
What’t the purpose of life? According to Apple’s Tim Cook, it’s not to love your job October 12, 2017 When he graduated from university in 1982, esteemed Apple boss Tim Cook was “fairly selfish” and wanted to find a job he loved. The goal came from growing up in a lower middle class family with a “very blue collar background” and a father who did not love his job. But several years later, Cook [...]
Why Apple boss Tim Cook thinks AR will be bigger than VR and is the most profound technology for humanity October 11, 2017 Apple boss Tim Cook has heralded augmented reality as the most transformative technology of the future, predicting its “profound” impact on humanity. “I’m incredibly excited about AR…. because I can see uses for it everywhere,” he said, reeling of a list of applications that included education, sports and entertainment. “I can see it in every [...]
Dow Jones newswire reports false story on Google buying Apple because of ‘technical error’ October 10, 2017 Newswire firm Dow Jones was today forced to hurriedly remove false headlines published online which claimed Google was buying Apple. The firm said the headlines were published as a result of a “technical error” in a statement, but gave no further information on the cause of the problems. Pictures posted online which purport to show [...]
London fintech star Monzo is fending off one takeover offer each month October 10, 2017 Monzo, one of London’s biggest fintech success stories, is fending off a takeover offer every month as larger rivals try to get their hands on a slice of its ultra-hip clientele, its co-founder has said. Speaking on City A.M.’s Unregulated podcast, Tom Blomfield, who launched the company in April this year, said the firm has [...]