The Chicago Tribune will introduce a new digital experience tomorrow, designed to dramatically increase functionality for users on any platform. The fully-responsive experience – which intuitively tailors content based on device – is designed to help audiences discover news and information in the most entertaining, empowering way possible, whether on the desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet. The University of Chicago is the presenting sponsor of the new consumer experience.
In a new report, "Assessing the Investment Priorities of Mobile Players" that examines the acquisition and investment strategies of Apple, Google and a group of leading mobile players, Strategy Analytics finds that the strategies of leading players in the global smartphone market are dominated by Apple and Google efforts aimed at strengthening their prized content and application ecosystems.
Tech groups are rallying to support passage of legislation to ban federal, state, and local governments from both taxing Internet access charges and assessing multiple taxes on eCommerce.
Enterprise social software market is expected to double by 2019. Is your business thinking about social and how to utilize it in the enterprise? By 2019, the generation that grew up with MySpace, AIM, then to Facebook and Twitter, are going to be you...
Intouch Solutions®, a marketing agency servicing the pharmaceutical industry, announced the availability of SocialQueue. SocialQueue gives pharma companies a new tool to easily monitor and manage activity across their social channels, enabling them to engage in social settings while abiding by the strict regulations of the industry.
Global enterprise social software market (ESS) is forecast to grow from $4.77 billion in 2014 to $8.14 billion in 2019. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.3% from 2014 to 2019. The enterprise social software market drivers discussed in this research include Enterprise Social Adds Value to Businesses, Accommodating Features and Employees Popular Demand. Skeptical Approach, Initial Setup Costs and Profusion of tools and Lack of Integration are the major restraints and challenges mentioned for the ESS industry. Multi-Vertical Focus and Bring Your Own Device (Byod) Ecosystem are the top most opportunities analyzed for this sector.
Results suggest that price and availability are driving cross-border shopping amongst UK online consumers. 60% of the respondents who have shopped cross border said that they choose to purchase with a retailer outside of the UK because of better prices, whilst another 60% said that they made the purchase because they couldn't get the product they wanted here in the UK. Another 18% stated their purchase decision was driven by better products on offer.