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Video-assistant refereeing
7th November 2017

A response to critics of video-assistant refereeing

In a sport that has become increasingly digital, the relative lack of technology used while actually playing football is quite surprising. The vast majority of

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Ben Musgrove
Social Media
1st November 2017

Social media, politics and the disinformation age

YouTube has announced that it is pressing ahead with plans to further alter its advertising algorithms. The move is latest in a series of updates

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Ross Jones
31st October 2017

How technology is transforming healthcare

It’s hard to believe that just ten years ago you couldn’t even book an appointment online to visit your doctor and now people are using

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Rachel Nulty
30th October 2017

Social enterprises and how they can help your clients and tech-for-good campaigns

Earlier this month I attended the PRCA event, Creating Brand Purpose Through Social Enterprise. Working with social enterprises is a new thing for me, but

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Robyn Wilson
26th October 2017

A future with no women in tech

“Technology is the evolution of human biology. If its future lies with a single gender, what does that mean for our species?” – Ray Kurzweil,

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Jhanvi Gudka
Travel Tech
25th October 2017

Have tech, will travel: how technology will transform holidays of the future

During a night out earlier this year, a friend and I were consoling each other about the fact we’re both turning (whisper it) 30 in

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Samantha Browning
Social Media
23rd October 2017

Social media — the good, the bad and the ugly

A recent article that gained national press coverage disclosed how a former Facebook engineer believed social media is leading society to a future ‘dystopia’. This

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Ryan O'Leary
23rd October 2017

The troubling semantics of loot box ‘gambling’

The glacial drip of microtranscations into the gaming industry has long since become something more akin to Chinese water-torture. Whilst many titles have offered a

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Ben Musgrove
6th October 2017

PR measurement: why we must break the shatterproof ruler

Oh 1999; such a year of promise as a new century loomed. And a year of personal optimism as I started my career in PR

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Louise Palmer
technology copywriting
5th October 2017

What really grinds my gears — technology copywriting and the language of IT

My first ever job out of university was as a B2B technology copywriter for a marketing agency. I wasn’t from a tech background (I did

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Sanjay Dove
2nd October 2017

PR and the path to purchase for B2B tech buyers

Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg recently predicted the collapse of the marketing funnel. It no longer takes time for buyers to go from research

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Lorraine Jenkins
28th September 2017

Will Vimeo be able to crack the live streaming market?

Facebook has done it, so has Instagram — it’s the most interactive video concept that exists right now. Now Vimeo, the popular video hosting website, is

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Julia Portelly