Ocado appoints Libby Kinsey as head of data science
Ocado Technology, a division of the online grocery retailer, is beefing up its senior team with the appointment of a…
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Microsoft $20bn deal for Siri creator boosts health blitz
Microsoft is beefing up its artificial intelligence expertise for healthcare companies with the eye-watering $19.7bn (£13.3bn) acquisition of Nuance Communications,…
Data, digital, and tech chiefs see salaries soar by 55%
Data, digital, and technology leaders are reaping the benefits of the pandemic-fuelled stampede to build specialist teams, securing a 55%…
Is your data strategy ostracising millions of consumers?
Lockdown’s been hard for people working and studying at home. I don’t need to tell you that. Access to physical…
WPP pools insight units for data-driven marketing boost
WPP has hatched a plan to invest more than $200m (£146m) to build a new data operation housed within media…
Facebook proves Covid-proof as spend hits record levels
The early months of the Covid pandemic might have triggered a mass exodus from direct mail, TV, outdoor and even…
Digital skills crisis looms as pupils shun tech studies
The UK is still hurtling towards a “catastrophic” digital skills gap, with teenagers abandoning IT subjects at GCSE in their…
Facebook, Google or Microsoft: Which is more effective?
Marketers struggling to work out whether to advertise on Facebook, Google or Microsoft have been given a major boost with…
QR gets the A-OK as Covid brings tech in from the cold
The QR code has gone from retail promotional device to being hailed by consumers as the future of shopping, following…
Jellyfish boosts expansion drive with major buying spree
Digital marketing agency Jellyfish has made five new acquisitions as part of its international expansion drive designed to tap into…