Locally targeted ad spending by US national brands will grow to $68.9 billion in 2018, according to BIA/Kelsey’s US Local Media Forecast. Local marketing growth is being driven by several important trends, including consumers’ increasing preference for online local information — particularly through social media — and their use of …

Although the summer months are now behind us, September in Toronto is an exciting and fast-paced time. While we have now bid adieu to Toronto Fashion Week  in Yorkville and are preparing to wrap another season of glitz and glamour at the Toronto International Film Festival, the 6ix is always …

Apple launched its refreshed iPhone 8 and 10th-anniversary-edition iPhone X yesterday. Samsung, of course, launched the latest Galaxy Note 8 a few weeks ago. But how do the devices compare with each other, and which one is the right choice for you? Let’s take a look. It’s impossible to cleanly …

Apple’s newest iPhones all support wireless charging, and that means automakers will move to make this a standard across most of their fleets. Never mind that dozens of Android phones already embed wireless charging. Overnight, Apple made it a standard. US automakers have deployed, slowly, wireless charging in their cars …

Prior to Satya Nadella’s tenure as Microsoft’s CEO, the firm employed extensive QA testers and used them for all of its Windows patch testing. Not long after Nadella came aboard, he reorganized the company, fired a large number of employees in the testing group, and began requiring OS developers to …

At its launch event yesterday, Apple announced a bold new strategy that could give it a leadership position in a critical market. Marketing professionals and executives from other companies were left looking foolish by comparison and they’ll undoubtedly scramble to keep up with the Cupertino-based company. I’m speaking, of course, …

We’re mere days away from the end of NASA’s Cassini mission. The spacecraft has been exploring Saturn and its entourage of moons for more than a decade, but the time has come to execute the “Grand Finale.” In the early morning on Friday (September 15th), the final signals will be …

Americans spent nearly a billion hours watching YouTube videos on Android this past July, according to new data released today by App Annie. That’s the largest amount of time spent in any one streaming video app in a month. The figure is yet another data point showcasing the shift in …

Meal prepping might take a little planning, but it doesn’t have to take up all your time — or your money. You can easily throw together these 3-ingredient recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert with items you probably have in your kitchen. Not only are they super simple to …

The Ancient Greeks may have built their sacred sites deliberately on land previously affected by earthquake activity, according to University of Plymouth Professor Iain Stewart. General view of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi; the implication is that the oracular chamber below the temple complex lies on a line of …