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Travel Technology Europe and Business Travel Show 2016: Review

The travel industry is beginning to harness big data and social media in order to create seamless connectivity.

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TV saviour

New York – Vice Media Group’s new channel Viceland is attracting big-name investors eager to access its young audience.

Television : Vice Media Group : Media Futures

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Social media blues

Global – Researchers have discovered a link between social media use and feelings of unhappiness.

Friendship Paradox : Happiness Paradox : Twitter

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Limited offer

US – Arby’s, a national fast food chain known for its roast meat sandwiches, offered a meat-free menu for one day only.

Arby's : Fast Food : Vegetarians

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Musical discovery

UK – The BBC has launched an app that enables people to discover new musical tastes from their smartphones.

BBC Music : Discovery : App

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World cinema club

Global – Netflix is changing its algorithms so it can offer viewers more personal recommendations, rather than focusing on regional tastes.

Netflix : Personalisation : Algorithms

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Modular mission

Barcelona – LG has revealed the G5 smartphone, which boasts features that can be accessed by connecting different modules to its base.

LG : MWC : Modular

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Upwardly mobile

UK – More than 50% of traffic to the country’s leading business website categories comes from mobile devices, according to new figures.

SimilarWeb : Mobile Browsing : Online Traffic

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Label of success

UK – Tesco is fostering the Sugarwise grassroots consumer movement, a certification system that guarantees a product’s low added sugar content.

Tesco : Sugarwise : Kitemark

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Bringing paper back

UK – Publisher Trinity Mirror has gone back to the drawing board to create the UK’s first stand-alone newspaper in more than three decades.

Trinity Mirror : Newspaper : New Day

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Apple fashion

New York – Apple is backing this year’s technology-themed Met Gala in support of its fashion-focused wearables strategy.

Apple : Wearable Tech : Fashion Futures

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In the flow

US – Flowstate is a writing tool that uses positive friction to induce a state of creative flow in the writer.

Flowstate : Writing Tool : Positive Friction

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Morning news

Global – Keen to mimic the mobile behaviour of their readers, media outlets Vogue and Quartz are changing the way they deliver the news.

WhatsApp : Vogue : Text Commerce

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Toying with technology

New York – Barbie now has an internet-enabled Dreamhouse, while drones were a big hit at this year’s Toy Fair.

International Toy Fair 2016 : IoT : Augmented Reality

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Buffer anxiety

Global – Slow mobile load times cause considerable stress, according to new research by communications network Ericsson.

Ericsson : Load Times : Anxiety

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Speak up

Global – Facebook is increasing the visibility of those who speak out against hate speech on its site.

Facebook : Counter Speech : Advertising

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Show me the Mondo

London – The Mondo banking app and debit card caters for the smartphone generation through a user-friendly dashboard.

Mondo : Banking App : Customer Services

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Stockholm Design Week and Furniture Fair 2016: Review

At Stockholm’s off-site events, young designers were keen to present a new direction for Scandinavian design.

Furniture : Lighting : Nordic

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Best behaviour

US – Teenagers today are better behaved than past generations, according to a government survey of over 10,000 high school students.

Teenagers : YRBSS : Good Behaviour

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Off the Menu

US – A new food app that specialises in secret menu items is taking off in the US, bringing insider information to a mass-market audience.

High Low : High Street Restaurants : Secret Menu

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The ideas and innovations that hint at the future of the consumer landscape