Fahad HAug 9, 20193 min readAlexa devices maintain 70% market share in U.S. according to surveyIn January, 2018 Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) estimated that Amazon Echo/Alexa controlled 69% of the U.S. smart speaker...
Fahad HJun 4, 20192 min read‘Just once’ location sharing, ‘sign-in with Apple’ give users more control oApple is doubling down on privacy as a differentiator against Android. Yesterday at Apple’s WWDC conference the company emphasized...
Fahad HMay 22, 20192 min readA year after GDPR, mobile notifications are up, location sharing is downIn the wake of GDPR and a constant drumbeat of largely negative privacy news in Europe and North America, consumers and marketers are...
Fahad HJan 30, 20193 min readFacebook pulls Research app after backlash over use of teen dataFacebook has removed a controversial app, dubbed Facebook Research, from the iOS app store after coming under fire for essentially paying...
Fahad HDec 11, 20183 min readMarketers say Time Well Spent movement isn’t influencing social media plansFeatures like Facebook and Instagram’s user activity dashboards and YouTube’s reminders to “take a break” are responses to the movement’s...
Fahad HSep 12, 20183 min readiOS 12 release gives users more power, marketers more optionsLet’s dig right in. Changes to notifications make it easier for users to opt in — and opt out. The update gives users more control...
Fahad HJul 23, 20182 min readUS market becoming a smartphone duopolyLast week, Google received the largest antitrust fine ever imposed by the European Commission (EC). At the highest level, that fine is...
Fahad HJun 5, 20182 min readApple and Google try to help you curb your smartphone compulsionsGoogle and Apple are having their “Alfred Nobel moment.” Nobel was the Swedish inventor of dynamite who also established the Nobel Prize....
Fahad HJun 4, 20183 min readApple’s WWDC 2018 keynote: An overview of the announcementsEarlier today, Apple wrapped its WWDC 2018 developer keynote, with a long list of announcements. Apple has four platforms: iOS, MacOS,...
Fahad HMar 30, 20182 min readApple iOS 11.3: Business Chat and privacy as a marketing toolApple rolled out iOS 11.3 today. Among the features are new and improved AR capabilities, health records, data privacy, Animoji, Business...
Fahad HDec 21, 20172 min readHow to take advantage of innovation and strengthen fundamentals — our top 10 email marketing cJust because email is a digital marketing stalwart doesn’t mean it’s standing still. In fact, email in 2017 is finding its place as a...
Fahad HDec 18, 20173 min readReddit’s mobile apps now let people view only visual posts, block ads through in-app browserIn a redesign of its mobile apps announced on Monday, Reddit will add an option for people to only view non-text posts, which could help...
Fahad HOct 17, 20173 min readApple’s move to kill cookies isn’t a crisis — It’s an opportunitycookie-blocking to a whole new level and will drastically impact a brand’s ability to maintain direct relationships with its customers....
Fahad HOct 10, 20175 min readWhat email marketers should know about iOS 11released iOS 11 last month, bringing quite a few changes to Apple Mail. Because there are currently more iPhone users in the US than ever...
Fahad HOct 9, 20173 min readApple’s anti-tracking tool restricts Facebook’s ability to follow people around the webTwo years ago, Facebook began using the ubiquitous “like” buttons that publishers put on their sites to track people’s web browsing and...
Fahad HSep 12, 20173 min readApple debuts iPhone 8 and $1K iPhone X with ‘Face ID’Most of what was announced today has already been written about at length because of leaks. So the drama that used to come with Apple...
Fahad HJun 12, 20173 min readApple’s Business Chat is a powerful new channel for customer service & inbound salesThe HomePod got most of the attention and headlines last week at Apple’s developer conference. However, Business Chat may be the...
Fahad HJun 1, 20172 min readReport: Apple’s Siri-powered virtual assistant could be announced next weekApple might announce its long-rumored Siri-powered smart speaker during the company’s annual developer conference next week, according to...
Fahad HMay 31, 20172 min readCity Furniture taps Apple, IBM for in-store apps to improve the sales experienceWhether you see what’s happening right now with retail store closures as a right-sizing or a harbinger of the “retail apocalypse,”...
Fahad HMay 2, 20171 min readApple’s $52.9B in revenue misses estimates, iPhone sales below expectationsThis afternoon Apple announced revenue of $52.9 billion, which was up vs. last year but short of analyst expectations of $53 billion....
