Innovation

Marketers need to think big. Like, saving-the-world big. That’s the advice McCann Health’s global chief creative officer, Matt Eastwood, offered up to kick off the Cannes Lions Health confab Monday, per Fierce Pharma report What that means is advertising that “may not look like advertising,” Eastwood said during the morning’s first session. “It’s advertising while […]

Apple is reportedly preparing three new iPhones to launch in 2020, including two with 5G support provided by Qualcomm, according to TF International Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo. Apple is also reportedly building its own 5G chips to launch in either 2022 or 2023, according to Kuo. Apple is reportedly aggressively pushing 5G development amid […]

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg believes the safe return of its best-selling plane, the 737 Max, is the company’s most important objective. Boeing is scrambling to restore confidence in the 737 Max from regulators, customers and the flying public. The manufacturer’s 737 Max has been grounded across the globe since mid-March after a deadly crash involving […]

Chinese telecom company Huawei held on to its spot as the world’s second biggest smartphone vendor in the first quarter, before being blacklisted by the United States, research and advisory firm Gartner said. Gartner also said Huawei continued to reduce the gap with Samsung, but warned that growth could be limited in the near term. […]

The United States has temporarily eased trade restrictions on China’s Huawei to minimize disruption for its customers, a move the founder of the world’s largest telecoms equipment maker said meant little because it was already prepared for U.S. action. The U.S. Commerce Department blocked Huawei Technologies from buying U.S. goods last week, a major escalation […]

Facebook announced on Thursday that it has banned several high-profile accounts and people from its platform, including Nation of Islam leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan, according to USA Today. The social media giant claims it made the decision because the accounts violated its rules against “dangerous individuals and organizations.” Within the past months, Facebook has been […]

Hundreds of millions of “dead profiles” will be added to Facebook’s network in the next few decades, a study found, raising questions about how the data of the deceased is being handled. Oxford University researchers published a paper that found the dead “may well outnumber the living” on the social media platform before the end […]

Tech Entrepreneur, Elon Musk has revealed his Neuralink startup is close to announcing the first brain-machine interface which connects humans and computers. The Tesla co-founder took to Twitter to tell followers the technology would be “coming soon” – though he failed to provide further details. Neuralink was set up in 2016 with the ambitious goal […]