Month: March 2019

Lilium eVTOL Jets Aim To Be First To Offer Ride-Sharing Autonomous Flights

Lilium is a company whose vision is to enable a world where anyone can fly, anywhere anytime, according to Lilium’s Head of Program Management, Andrew Welling. “We’re doing that via an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) jets,” he says. “By 2025, we hope that everyone will be able to order one of our jets […]

Even Just on the Medical Side, There’s Big Business in Pot

There’s a big business to be built even just on the medical side of legal marijuana says legendary technology investor Geoff Lewis. Lewis was an early investor in Tilray which recently had a hugely successful IPO of which he was pleasantly surprised. Lewis thinks the worldwide trend is toward recreational legalization of marijuana and that […]

Nvidia AI turns sketches into photorealistic landscapes in seconds

Today at Nvidia GTC 2019, the company unveiled a stunning image creator. Using generative adversarial networks, users of the software are with just a few clicks able to sketch images that are nearly photorealistic. The software will instantly turn a couple of lines into a gorgeous mountaintop sunset. This is MS Paint for the AI […]

Facebook is expanding into Search Ads. What will this mean?

Facebook has decided to test Search Ads in selected industries in the US and Canada. What does this experiment mean for the search advertising industry?   Facebook is always eager to try out new monetization ideas. This time there’s a really interesting one with an attempt to test search ads. It was back in 2012 […]

We Are Definitely Under a Digital Transformation at Chipotle, Says CEO

We are definitely under a digital transformation at Chipotle, says Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol. Chipotle is in the midst of a digital and innovation revolution that is starting to see results. “Our digital business is up dramatically and the good news it’s also incremental so the total business is up,” said Niccol. “You have to […]

Facebook dynamic ads: A beginner’s guide

Facebook constantly expands its advertising offerings by introducing new features to accommodate advertisers in their effort to make the most out of their platform. Whether it is creating ads that tell the brand’s story with carousel ads, immersing users in their brand’s world with Canvas or Stories ads, or cutting down the time to create […]

New Android adware found in 200 apps on Google Play

  Security researchers have found a new kind of mobile adware hidden in hundreds of Android apps, and downloaded more than 150 million times from Google Play. The malware masquerading as an ad-serving platform, dubbed SimBad by researchers at security firm Check Point, infected more than 200 apps which, likely unbeknownst to the app developer, […]

Maximize Clicks in Bing Ads now available globally

The strategy automatically sets bids to increase click volume. There are some manual control options. Bing Ads has rolled out Maximize Clicks to all accounts globally. It first introduced the automated bidding strategy in 2017. How does it work? With the Maximize Clicks strategy, the system will automatically set and adjust bids to get the most clicks for the daily budget. […]