Monthly Archives: May 2018

Les micro-influenceurs, nouvelle poule aux oeufs d’or ?

Spontanés, authentiques, experts en leur domaine et peu ou pas payés pour leurs coups de coeur postés sur YouTube et Instagram, les micro-influenceurs ne cessent de gagner du terrain auprès des marques. Il y a deux ans, en 2016, Youtube avait été le théâtre d'une étrange vindicte. Sur leur chaîne dédiée, sur fond de lipsticks artistiquement mis en scène, de flacons de parfums et de bouquets de pivoines, les youtubeuses EnaolF, MyPrettyCherryBeauty, Sweetdivemakeup et Marjorie ne décoléraient pas. Toutes avaient reçu un mail identique d'Octoly déclarant leur chaîne « inéligible » faute d'une audience suffisante. La plate-forme proposant des partenariats entre grandes marques de beauté (Estée Lauder, Guerlain, Dior, Make Up For Ever, Anastasia Beverly Hills...) et youtubeuses beauté avait décidé de hausser d'un cran ses exigences. Là où Octoly se contentait jusqu'ici de 500 vues sur les vidéos où ces micro-influenceuses testaient puis commentaient les produits, un millier de vues était exigé à présent. Sinon... plus question de mettre sa « free-box » de produits à leur disposition. Deux ans plus tard, où en est-on ? La marketplace Octoly, créée en 2015, a prospéré. Elle revendique désormais 250 marques partenaires et 11.000 influenceurs qui leur font confiance représentant plus de 700 millions d'abonnés. Quant à ses conditions, elles se sont affinées : 5.000 abonnés minimum sur Instagram et 1.000 vues au terme de trente jours de diffusion. Mais quoi d'étonnant ? Dans un écosystème où l'avis des micro-influenceurs énoncé de manière spontanée, authentique, sans rémunération, est de plus en plus déterminant sur les intentions d'achat - renvoyant le placement de produits à l'ère des dinosaures -, leur profil et leur audience sont scrutés à la loupe. Les vidéos postées doivent rassembler au minimum entre 1.000 et 10.000 vues.

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Uber Elevate : les premiers vols commerciaux prévus pour 2023

Comment surmonter le défi de la mobilité urbaine ? Face au trafic routier qui ne cesse d’augmenter dans les grandes villes, Jeff Holden, directeur opérationnel des produits Uber, fait le pari des taxis-volants. Hier, lors de la deuxième conférence annuelle d’Uber Elevate au Skirball Center à Los Angeles, la société a dévoilé quelques informations concernant ses taxis volants. Comme prévu, les premiers vols d’essai devraient s’effectuer en 2020 à Los Angeles, célèbre pour son trafic automobile dense. La direction d’Uber Elevate estime pouvoir rendre accessibles ses premiers vols commerciaux à l’horizon 2023 via son application. Alors qu’Ehang 184 a déjà effectué une série de vols tests avec passagers et sans pilote, Uber a souligné lors de la conférence que ses engins seront pilotés par l’homme, dans un premier temps en tout cas. Au travers d’une vidéo, la firme a aussi dévoilé quelques images de ce que pourraient être ces VTC des airs mi-drones mi-hélicoptères aux lignes futuristes. Les maquettes ont été confiées à plusieurs constructeurs, du brésilien Embraer au slovène Pipistrel, en passant par l’américain Karem Aircraft. « Ce sont des prototypes qui n’existent pas encore », a précisé Eric Allison, directeur des programmes d’aviation de Uber Elevate auprès de l’AFP.

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Accident mortel en Arizona : le véhicule autonome a détecté le piéton, sans l’éviter

Le premier accident mortel entre un véhicule autonome et un piéton est dû à un mauvais réglage de logiciel. Elaine Herzberg, 49 ans, avait été tuée le 19 mars à Tempe, en Arizona, par un taxi sans conducteur d'Uber en phase d'essai. La victime, qui circulait à pied sur la chaussée en poussant un vélo, avait été renversée à environ 60 km/h par le véhicule. Selon le site The Information , citant ce mercredi des sources proches du dossier, les capteurs du SUV Volvo modifié ont pourtant bien détecté et identifié la victime. Mais c'est, ensuite, le logiciel général du véhicule qui n'a pas jugé bon de l'éviter. Un réglage trop souple pour éviter les freinages intempestifs Cette décision aux conséquences dramatiques est liée, relate The Information, à un réglage trop souple du logiciel pour éviter les « faux positifs ». Ceux-ci amenaient la voiture à freiner de manière intempestive, par exemple pour un simple sac en plastique emporté par le vent sur la chaussée. Retravaillé pour gommer ces erreurs, l'ordinateur de bord du SUV a jugé qu'il ne disposait pas d'informations suffisantes pour écarter un « faux positif » et réagi trop tard.

By |2018-05-09T16:45:00+00:00May 9th, 2018|Scoop.it|0 Comments

Mark Zuckerberg réorganise le management de Facebook

Le fondateur du réseau social reste numéro un. Et profite de cette réorganisation pour lancer une unité dédiée à la « blockchain ». C'est une réorganisation douce à laquelle vient de procéder Mark Zuckerberg. Le patron du réseau social, qui tente toujours d'atténuer les retombées du scandale lié à Cambridge Analytica , vient en effet de décider de rebattre les cartes au sein de son équipe de management. Certes, la tête du groupe est inchangée. Mark Zuckerberg reste numéro un du groupe qu'il a fondé et conserve Sheryl Sandberg, au rang de numéro deux. Mais, selon le site Recode, qui a révélé cette réorganisation, au total une dizaine de cadres dirigeants de Facebook changent de poste. Mais aucun ne quitte le groupe.

By |2018-05-09T16:42:58+00:00May 9th, 2018|Scoop.it|0 Comments

Walmart buys 77% of Flipkart as war with Amazon heats up in India

U.S. retail giant Walmart on Wednesday said it will buy a 77% stake in India's largest e-commerce company Flipkart for $16 billion, in the biggest acquisition in local corporate history. As part of the deal, Walmart will invest $2 billion in fresh capital into Flipkart and acquire the rest of the stake from existing investors. The deal values the whole company at $20.8 billion. Microsoft will join in as a key strategic and technology partner, Walmart said in a statment. The deal is the largest in India, after Russian Rosneft's $12.9 billion buyout of Essar Oil and is expected to put Walmart in a much better position to battle Amazon. Co-founder and Group CEO Sachin Bansal will exit the firm he set up with Binny in 2007 as an online bookstore, after selling his 5% stake. Binny will stay on as group chairman and CEO. Flipkart Group, registered in Bangalore and Singapore, has had a good run since its entry and captured about 39.5% of the e-commerce market on a standalone basis, while Amazon India controlled around 31.5% in 2017, according to a Forrester Research report. The Bansals feature in the TIME list of 100 most influential people. To fuel its expansion and growth, the company acquired local players such as Myntra, Jabong, and PhonePe but was struggling to grow further until receiving huge cash injections last year from SoftBank and Tencent Holdings. Tokyo-based SoftBank Group, the largest shareholder in Flipkart, will receive $4.5 billion for the entire 20.8% stake it holds after agreeing to sell down on Tuesday night. That marks a huge margin over the $2.5 billion investment it made just last year. SoftBank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son said in a media conference on Wednesday: "It is a very big gain for the Vision Fund," referring to a fund set up by the group to invest in innovative technology companies.

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Thanks, Alexa. But I’ll Buy It In-Store

More people are leaning on voice-enabled devices for routine tasks, like research. But when it comes to voice commerce, most still prefer to shop the traditional way. In fact, a February 2018 survey by PwC reveals that consumers are more comfortable visiting a physical store or shopping online than they are using their voice assistant to shop. For example, US voice assistant users are roughly three times more likely to shop online the traditional way (76%) than they are to use a smart speaker to shop (24%). They also preferred "old fashioned" actions like visiting a physical store, shopping through a mobile app and calling customer service to chat with a human.

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TMI: Some Consumers Regret Oversharing Online

Investment and interest in artificial intelligence (AI) remains high, though large-scale adoption is happening more slowly. Download our new AI Roundup, presented by AdTheorent, to get a better understanding of today’s AI landscape and how marketers are putting it to work. Receive my copy. For example, roughly a third of respondents said they wished they hadn't shared their debit or credit card details, and almost as many regret sharing their social/national security number. Health records, credit card ratings and their phone number were among the other types mentioned. The survey also found that many consumers are not very likely to share their personal information in order to get a more personalized experience, or in exchange for discounts. In fact, 60% of respondents said they're at least fairly unlikely to share personal info in order to help companies provide them with a more personalized service. And another 64% said they were at least very unlikely to do so in exchange for deals or offers they may use.

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I’m excited to outsource every difficult conversation to my Google Assistant

Today Google announced Google Duplex, an AI assistant feature that takes automated scheduling one step further: it will call up the third party in question and have an actual conversation with them to achieve whatever objective you give it. In the recorded examples played onstage at the Google I/O developer conference, the assistant managed to have a successful conversation to schedule a haircut appointment, and a somewhat more roundabout but still productive one to make a restaurant reservation. The voice the assistant uses doesn’t even sound like a robot; its voice lilts and it pauses and says “um” as if it doesn’t already know exactly what it wants. At The Outline, we see a bright future for technology, so we ask, why stop there? Some other uses we can imagine for Google Duplex: Hey Google: Give my child “The Talk” Hey Google: Tell Marcus he’s the father Hey Google: Tell my landlord I’ll send the rent uhhh next week Hey Google: Tell my friend his improv show was so great and back-schedule an appointment for which I had to l leave early Hey Google: Tell my boss I’m going to miss the meeting Hey Google: Send this steak back and ask for medium RARE Hey Google: Ask my boyfriend if he's cheating on me Hey Google: Break up with my boyfriend Hey Google: Tell the movie theater texter to cut it out Hey Google: Ask UPS why the delivery guy never actually rings the doorbell Hey Google: Interrogate Mark Zuckerberg Hey Google: Convert my brother the Trump supporter Hey Google: Call the police about my neighbor’s loud music

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Systèmes d’argent mobile : l’interopérabilité débarque au Ghana | CIO MAG

L’interopérabilité qui permet d’envoyer de l’argent d’un réseau d’opérateur mobile vers un autre va entrer en vigueur au Ghana à partir de ce jeudi 10 mai 2018. C’est une révélation de Financial Afrik qui révèle que l’opération sera menée sous la supervision de la Banque du Ghana et de sa filiale, Ghana Interbank Payments and Settlements Systems, qui s’occupe de tout ce qui est facilitation de l’argent électronique. Cette interopérabilité va donner la possibilité également de faire des transferts fluides, des comptes bancaires vers les terminaux téléphoniques, mais aussi vers les cartes e-wich, la marque du système de paiement Switch et Smart Card du Ghana. Tel que expliqué par le Financial Afrik, l’interopérabilité constitue la dernière étape de la modernisation du système financier ghanéen qui dispose déjà de plusieurs canaux de paiement électronique opérationnels sans compter l’existence d’une chambre de compensation automatisée spécialisée dans les services de crédit direct et de débit direct. Le secteur est en nette croissance au Ghana où la valeur des transactions mobiles a plus que doublé en 2017 passant de 78,5 milliards de cedis en 2016 à 155,8 milliards. Un rapport de GSMA Intelligence, mentionné par nos confrères, souligne que 40 % de la population adulte utilise régulièrement de l’argent mobile.

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Google I/O 2018: All the Big Announcements From Android to AI

Assistant Gets Even Smarter Google Assistant has six new voices (including one voiced by John Legend!). You can select one of these to make Assistant sound more like a real person and less like a machine. Furthermore, you no longer have to prompt Assistant with “Hey Google” every time you want it to pay attention. After an initial prompt, it can understand when a conversation is continuing and can answer follow-up questions without the wake word. You can also ask multiple questions at once, like “Who is John Legend’s wife and why is she famous?” Google’s also bringing Assistant into Smart Displays, designed to better surface visual information. If you have one of these new screen-bearing devices, you can ask Assistant for a recipe and Google can bring up a Tasty video. Ask to change the temperature, and Google lets you adjust it on the Nest thermostat app. Google Duplex Makes AI Sound Human Don’t freak out, but Google’s AI now sounds… human. One of today’s wildest demonstrations involved a new voice-powered AI called Google Duplex making a restaurant reservation over the phone. The machine voice sounded hyper-realistic, even adding in filler words like “uh” and “mmhm.” Google pitched this as the savior from making your own appointments and reservations. But it could also signal a major moment in understanding what voice assistants can do, and how we should use them in the future. Hey Google, Please Be Nice Like most machines, Google Assistant responds to whatever command you bark at it, as long as it’s prefaced with “OK, Google.” But with a new feature called “Pretty Please,” you need to add the magic words “please” and “thank you.” The feature encourages kids (and adults) to talk to Assistant politely, in a time when there are virtual assistants in more households than ever before. Notably, the new feature comes just as Amazon releases its Echo Dot Kids Edition, a smart speaker specially designed to teach your kids manners at home. Use Your Phone Less with Android P The next version of Android is all about making your phone work for you. An adaptive battery feature predicts which apps you’ll use at what time, and saves juice by reducing app wakeups. The update makes it easier to surface the apps you need based on past habits, and comes with simplified gestures, like bringing up the rotation lock button when you turn your phone sideways. Most importantly, Android P gives you all kinds of new ways to not use your phone: A new dashboard shows you how much time you’ve spent in an app, a gesture called “shush” puts your phone into do-not-disturb mode when you flip it facedown, and a “wind down” mode turns all of your apps to grayscale after bedtime. Those features will roll out when Android P is released later this year, but you can experience it in beta on Google’s Pixel phones and seven other Android devices starting today. Google Invents the Term “JOMO” Better digital interactions aren’t just a feature of Android P, but part of the Google ethos. Pichai says “digital wellbeing” will course through every platform at Google. In the coming year, we can expect more tools to analyze our behavior on Google’s platforms and new toggles to encourage us to log off. Even YouTube, which Google owns, will now tell you to take a break after a video-watching binge. Pichai described it as a shift from “FOMO,” the fear of missing out when we’re not near our phones and computers, to “JOMO,” the joy of missing out on wasted time in front of a screen. New Tools for Visual Search At the same time, Google wants people to spend more time on certain platforms—like Google Lens, its visual search tool, which now lives inside the native camera apps on more than 10 Android phones. Lens is designed to make it more convenient to search the world around you through your camera. The updated Lens can now recognize words—you can even copy-and-paste words from a photo—and a feature called Style Match can help you find real-world objects on the web. We have an exclusive look at the new Google Lens here. An Update on Self-Driving Cars Google’s artificial intelligence efforts extend well beyond handsets and smart speakers. Waymo, the company’s self-driving car unit, has been siphoning the company’s AI power to develop the future of transportation. "Today Waymo is the only company in the world with a fleet of fully self-driving cars, with no one in the driving seat, on public roads," John Krafcik, Waymo’s CEO, told the audience Tuesday at I/O. That’s about to go even further: Later this year, Waymo will launch its first driverless transportation service in Phoenix. Just open an app, call a ride, and a fully autonomous vehicles—as in, no human hands on the wheel—will pull up to pick you up. Like Uber, but for self-driving cars. Augmented Reality Comes to Maps You know that feeling when you pull open Google Maps, but then can’t figure out which direction you’re facing on the map? Google knows that feeling, too. Now, an augmented reality overlay can project the step-by-step directions over the real world, showing you where to go by using your camera. Maps is also getting a personalized tab “For You,” using machine learning to generate local recommendations based on your past preferences. Smarter News with AI You can’t have a developer conference in 2018 without mentioning the relationship between technology and the news. Google’s answer: a refreshed Google News, with some brand new AI injected. There’s a personalized “For You” tab (curated based on what Google learns about your reading habits), a section for “Newscasts” (like Twitter Moments, but for Google), and an option to read “Full Coverage” of a story (one topic, covered by many different sources). You can also subscribe to follow certain publishers on Google News (like WIRED!) starting today.

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