26 August
Could a TikTok Music App Challenge Spotify?
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, filed for a trademark application earlier this year for ‘TikTok Music’. It lists a variety of goods and services that include allowing users to purchase, play, share, and download music, songs,…
17 March
What Does the Metaverse Actually Mean?
'Metaverse’ has become a buzzword recently, even more so since Facebook’s parent company changed their name to Meta in reference to it. But what does the metaverse actually mean and how will it affect the…
19 January
What is Web3 and Should We Believe the Hype?
It’s become something of a buzzword in recent months, but was does Web3 actually mean? We explore the vision of Web3 proponents, as well as outlining some of the criticisms it has drawn.
What is Web3?
In…
10 September
What is the UK's New Children's Digital Privacy Code?
New regulations concerning the handling of children’s data online have come into effect in the UK recently, after being proposed in the 2018 Data Protection Act. We explore what the new digital privacy code is…
08 April
What is the Future of Music Streaming?
“Streaming isn’t a format: it’s a business model. But streaming is still only one business model, and a business model that in many ways is so constraining, that we really only have one set of…
26 March
Clash of the Titans: Governments vs. Big Tech
(Featured image credit: Quarts at Work)
The recent conflicts between Google and Facebook and the Australian Government regarding the instalment of the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code have highlighted the increasing tensions between…
25 February
Signal vs WhatsApp: Battle of the Messaging Apps
With more than 2 billion users in over 180 countries worldwide, WhatsApp is the most popular communication platform on the planet. However, with data privacy becoming a greater concern, users have been seeking alternative messaging…
12 February
We Went Speed Dating with Virtual Assistants: Here's What Happened
Dating and technology have become closely linked over the past decade, particularly with the rising success of dating apps. Indeed, the founder of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd, recently became a self-made billionaire after the app’s…
18 November
How SEO Spammers Have Taken Over Spotify
In our blog on the future of search, we discussed how search was evolving beyond the search engine as we typically understand it. One concept that we explored was ‘vertical search’ - which is a…