Companies consider cyber-attacks more and more as a central business risk and start to work on better protection, but will they be able to master the security challenges in the digital economy?

AppsFlyer just released its APAC Ad Fraud Report 2019, providing marketers a comprehensive report on the evolving mobile advertising industry in the region. Covering activity between November 2018 to April 2019, the report examines 2.5 billion installs across over 8,000 apps in entertainment, finance, gaming, shopping, travel and utilities.

Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS), a partner of choice for the world’s leading Communication Service Providers (CSPs), and Zeetta Networks, a leading network slicing and splicing company, announced a global partnership agreement to facilitate early adoption of technologies like 5G and network slicing within the ICT space.

As part of its strategy, ZTE Corporation, a provider of advanced telecommunications systems, mobile devices, and enterprise technology solutions, is committed to providing customers with integrated end-to-end innovations to deliver excellence and value as the telecommunications and information technology sectors converge.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Advertising (SEA) mean more than just keyword analysis and should be an essential part of any online marketing strategy today. Simply because skillful SEO and deliberate SEA makes websites more productive for the sales of products. Considering certain rules can be useful to steadily improve existing operations, like the following

Short video clips manage to explain complex content in less than three minutes while entertaining at the same time. To no surprise, they are nowadays often replacing long and unmanageable texts that are usually not read to the end. Best is that they are applicable in almost any context: not only as a marketing or image film, but also in the traditional market communication and internal corporate business world. In addition, they can be spread through a variety of channels, such as YouTube, your own company website or Facebook.

Although the death of Snapchat has been predicted many times by now, in fact right after its listing at the stock exchange where is was considered overvalued, the company proves us once again wrong and shows that there is life in the old dog yet.

Internet usage is constantly changing, especially when it comes to which devices access the World Wide Web. The triumphant procession of the Internet initially started with stationary computers (desktop), emancipated itself by the market launch of smartphones in the direction of Responsive Web Design and Mobile First, and finally arrived at the current Trend ‘Mobile Only’.

Now, more than ever, cybersecurity teams are seeking to become more agile. They help organisations meet regulatory compliance requirements, align to industry best practices, and accelerate business transformation initiatives. Effective cybersecurity acts as a business enabler – building customer, shareholder, and employee trust. This enables organisations to protect and enhance their reputation and reduces the risk of the many negative consequences of a cybersecurity breach.

In today’s connected world, businesses are prime targets for cyberattacks, and unintentional missteps can result in critical exposure of consumers’ sensitive personal information.

The immense reach, the widely propagated ease of ad booking, and the ability to accurately define target audiences are just a few of the factors that persuade many advertisers to bet their marketing budgets on social media.

The problem with this is that big names, such as Facebook and Google, are quickly entrusted with the dissemination of ads without much reflection and thus with the integrity of brand safety. They benefit from the fact that the online advertising ecosystem is becoming increasingly complex and advertisers use the strong fragmentation and confusion as an excuse to snatch simpler social media advertising or playing out Google AdSense.

The spread of language assistants, such as Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, heralds a new evolutionary stage for user interfaces. In fact, now it is expected now, according to forecasts by market research firm ComScore, which also finds that at the latest by 2020 around 50% of search queries will be voice-based.

According to a study of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich we are already at the point where readers can’t recognize anymore if an article is written by a human being or artificial intelligence (AI). On the contrary, the texts of robots had even greater credibility in the test group, the study revealed. But writing texts is not the only creative area in which AI advances. More and more start-ups feed their servers with data and build innovative services thanks to machine learning.

Zendesk just announced expansions to Zendesk Sunshine, its open and flexible CRM platform built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which include new partnerships and integrations that will make it easier to connect siloed data and deliver deep customer insight to advance proactive customer experiences.