Publicis Groupe Singapore just announced the launch of Publicis Digital Lab to expand the agency’s digital business transformation capability. The fully-integrated digital lab combines machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) to develop the tools of tomorrow and provide world-class solutions to the industry.

What if we could use our customers' complete buying history, including all transaction data, to predict the next most likely purchase for each customer? This information would allow us to conduct individual marketing communications and provide tailor-made offers at the right time to each and every customer without even asking one single question.

The online translation agency One Hour Translation (OHT) revealed in a study that the world’s leading online tourism companies work extremely hard to expand their offerings to emerging markets in the former Soviet bloc, as well as Middle Eastern and East Asian countries.

Adobe just announced at the Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2018 its partnership with Apple and introduced Project Aero, a powerful new augmented reality (AR) authoring tool and system that makes it easier for designers and developers to create immersive content and bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds. You can rest assure that it will change the way we work, learn, and play, expanding digital experiences beyond the screen to the world around us.

As you probably already heard, Adobe entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Marketo, the market-leading cloud platform for B2B marketing engagement. For the grand sum of $4.75 billion, Marketo’s engagement platform can then be added to Adobe Experience Cloud

In today’s customer-centric economy, what truly differentiates a brand from its competitors is how well it can deliver a good customer experience. As customers expect faster response times and better personalized experiences, it is increasingly critical for brands to garner customer insights in near real-time to break through the clutter and grab their attention.

Neural Technologies launched the Optimus Ecosystem, an integrated compilation of solutions spread across the areas of Revenue Management, Digital Integration and Advanced Automation & Analytics that allows to address effectively the challenges associated with digitizing business processes across the enterprise. According to Neural Technology, Optimus Ecosystem is the answer to a successful digital transformation journey.

Reuters just unveiled a personalized news app designed to help business professionals make better decisions.

The trending topic in IT, Blockchain, keeps the tech industry currently on its toes, as the distributed, decentralized database of blocks is considered impossible to get hacked: Many different servers verify algorithms for storing and uploading information, besides allowing all users of the network to see all the histories of changes or adjustments to a file or a block. Due to the security of decentralized storage and the elimination of third-party verification of transactions, processes can be automated.

To get the best possible results with Google Ads, marketers create sophisticated campaigns based on search terms, products, users' location or devices. Now even more efficient results can be achieved with the new AI-driven Google algorithm, that delivers data-driven decisions and better campaign results with the same budget. Best of all, these results can be topped with the Triple-A Approach (Audience, Automation, and Attribution) that has been incorporated into the algorithm, developed by the pure Google Ads agency Smarketer.

Considering that digitization was still smiled at a few years ago, two-thirds of retailers look at it today as an opportunity to thrive, aware of the fact that shop systems will be much more than just additional distribution channels in the future. The boundaries between online, offline and mobile will continue to merge and the distribution channels no longer coexist but used in combination the way consumers want them to. Hence, the cross-channel shopping experience is at the top of every merchant’s list when it comes to customer expectations.

Adobe unveiled its vision and strategy to make every experience shoppable by integrating Magento Commerce Cloud into Adobe Experience Cloud, enabling enterprise companies to create highly engaging, personalized shopping experiences.

Gartner predicted already in 2016 that by 2020 30% of web browsing sessions will be done without a screen due to more new platforms based on "voice-first" interactions.

Videos are said to be strong traffic and engagement guarantors in online marketing, especially when used in social media, since posting live videos and short clips is explicitly encouraged and promoted by networks like Facebook where visual content gets a lot of attention.