WhatsApp introduced new storage management tools to help its users clear space on their smartphones. The Facebook-owned messaging application is providing cleanup suggestions by bucketing large files, as well as media that has been forwarded many times, and then sorting those files by size in descending order and giving people a way to preview them…Read More
Twitter analyzed video-game-related tweets on its platform from August through October 2020 and found that Animal Crossing was the most-tweeted-about game globally during this time. Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released March 20, and it has dominated gaming conversation on Twitter for most of the year. Overall, the 10 most-tweeted-about games globally from August through…Read More
This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it (and our other great newsletters) here. Greetings gadget fans. This week Plugged In was fed another newsletter (Mad Cow Disease-style) and is feeling… well, weird. I’ve spent a lot of time writing about Apple of late — and for good reason: it’s the master of consistently churning out perfectly capable products. Just look at something like the Apple Watch. It’s an amazing device, but it’s made to be steady, rather than jaw-dropping. There are no wild new features, or crazy designs. It’s simply another Apple Watch. And that’s fine. Being normie is a-okay. It’s… you…
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In late March 2020, the 2,000 employees of Barnsley Council, a local authority in the Dearne Valley of Yorkshire, England had to switch to home working, virtually overnight. The local authority used the cloud to switch to a paperless and virtual expense management system, streamlining back-office finance processes and eliminating the need for staff to present expense claims in person. This transformation was enabled by the SAP Concur platform. So says Rob Harrison, MD of SAP Concur for the UK and Ireland. So does the cloud have a silver lining from the fallout of Covid-19? Global spending on public cloud…
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TLDR: With full security protection, fast transfer speeds and automatic backups, Degoo’s premium cloud storage offer serves up 15TB of space for life for under $150. Cloud storage feels like an always escalating, neverending arms race. From documents to photos to videos, the files you want to remove from your devices and save to the cloud just keep getting bigger and bigger. Before you know it, that previously giant 100GB cloud drive you got a few years ago now feels positively packed to the gills. Gradually moving from 100GB to 500GB to 1TB doesn’t really seem to be in Degoo’s…
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Key Insights User-generated content (UGC) has long been the go-to creative solve for brands looking for free social assets. But as the creator economy evolves and even casual fans start to know their worth, the days of cheap brand UGC are over. UGC is dead, and paid content will replace it. In the early days…Read More
Neither disinformation nor voter intimidation is anything new. But tools developed by leading tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, and Google now allow these tactics to scale up dramatically. As a scholar of cybersecurity and election security, I have argued that these firms must do more to rein in disinformation, digital repression, and voter suppression on their platforms, including by treating these issues as a matter of corporate social responsibility. Earlier this fall, Twitter announced new measures to tackle disinformation, including false claims about the risks of voting by mail. Facebook has likewise vowed to crack down on disinformation and voter…
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Whether it’s t-shirts, hats, watches, briefcases, bicycles, or even perfume, automakers — especially those at the pricier end of the market — just love to sell branded goodies. It’s another way to cash in on the brand’s badge value and get free exposure from the suckers drivers that actually buy it. Never has it been a good idea to buy a piece of high-end car branded merch, and Aston Martin’s foldable phone proves that perfectly. Yes, you read that correctly. Aston Martin is selling a foldable phone. Well kind of, it’s actually a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 with a…
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In the latest installment of Adweek’s Adnatomy–a new video series exploring how brands, agencies and production companies continue to make commercials during the pandemic–we sat down with the team at Progressive to chat about their spots featuring Flo, Jamie, Mara and colleagues doing their best to work from home. Watch how Matt Dillon, business leader…Read More
Key Insights Welcome to First Things First, Adweek’s daily resource for marketers. We’ll be publishing the content to First Things First on Adweek.com each morning (like this post), but if you prefer that it come straight to your inbox, you can sign up for the email here. We’ve finally reached one of the most anticipated–and…Read More
