The overall digital ad spend during the period was £2.59bn, up from the previous year. The suggested reason for the rise in digital adspend is the statistic that 58% of the UK now own a smartphone.
Singularity University, the X PRIZE Foundation and Deloitte Consulting recently launched a new four-day executive education program: The Innovation Partnership Program (IPP).
The immersive 3 year partnership program prepares senior executives, from global corporations and Fortune 500 companies like Google, Shell, Qualcomm, and Hershey, to take their companies from “linear” to “exponential” by creating a culture of explosive innovation.
The first meeting took place last week consisting of a wide array of workshops on crowd-sourcing the rapid advancement of exponential technologies and how to innovate through incentivized competitions. The program includes a biannual summit, with the next one scheduled for September 18-‐22, 2013 in Silicon Valley.
I'm currently taking an online educational course in Behavioural Economics (BE), lead by the eminent Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational and...
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Microsoft is to show off SketchInsight - a prototype touchscreen display designed to interpret users' drawings to turn them into interactive charts and maps.
I remember this commercial from when I was a little boy!! I was worried, until I saw that lil' chick come out!! Man, that was the scariest commercial I had s...
Mike Spencer's insight:
don't make 'em like they used to...(we don't,lsiten and watchi like we used to...)
Hitler knew the Allied invasion on the Atlantic coast would come eventually, so all along the western edge of Europe — from Spain to Scandanavia — he built a series of fortifications called the Atlantic Wall.
Want to see how Glass actually feels? It's surprisingly simple. Say "take a picture" to take a picture. Record what you see, hands free. Even share what you ...
Mike Spencer's insight:
The best it might get before they fly off your head...
VCs like to go around asking the same questions: "What's cool? What startups do you like?
Mike Spencer's insight:
Vurb is a contextual content engine, a platform that connects and compiles relevant information from services like, but not limited to, Yelp, LinkedIn, Google Maps, Amazon and so on. Nothing quite like it exists on the market.
Consumers in the UK watched a total of 2.7bn television ads during 2012, equivalent to the average viewer seeing 47 commercials a day, new figures have shown.
The study analysed the anonymous behaviour of 25 million internet users worldwide - and found social networking, entertainment and shopping were the most popular pastimes.
Give it two examples, and Google's spreadsheet can make a list of almost anything. A strange peek at how Google — and by proxy, the internet — sees the world.
Mike Spencer's insight:
The semantic web is moving from crawl to walk mighty fast...
As Sony prepares to unveil its next-generation video games console, six experts give their view of the major challenges facing the "PlayStation 4".
Mike Spencer's insight:
When the PlayStation 3 came out in 2006 - early 2007 in the UK - the iPhone and iPad did not exist, smartphones were nascent, and only a very few people owned HD televisions
Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, researchers say.