Amazon shirks clicks for bricks!

The ecommerce giant launched a beta version of its ‘check-out free’ shopping experience Amazon Go. Instead of checkout lines and cashiers, customers pick up what they want and simply walk out the door with their Amazon Go app tallying the bill and debiting their...

Australians love Snapchat

Snapchat has released local daily usage figures for the first time, revealing Australians are among the platform’s highest users per capita. 4 million Aussies use the app daily, representing a quarter of total smartphone users. Mirroring global trends, 18-34 year olds...

There’s an app for that!

LinkedIn has unveiled LinkedIn Learning, an e-learning portal offering professional development app-based courses to individuals. 4000 courses cover business, technology, programming skills, design, photography, writing and accounting, any time, anywhere, with the...

Responsibility in a post truth world

Google and Facebook have been accused of influencing the US election outcome by allowing fake news to be distributed via their platforms. Both have since announced they will ban such sites, although this may need to be more about good intent than hard policy. office...

There’s an app for that!

As people become more and more reliant on texts and emails, the humble phone call is becoming less and less frequent. With this comes a big influx of often unnecessary emails to inboxes, taking time away from important tasks and making the search for important mail...