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Technology
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24 Feb
Social media regulatory trends and threats 2020
Social media regulatory threats will loom large in 2020, with a focus on antitrust, data privacy, and tax avoidance.
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21 Feb
Ecuador sets ambitious targets with national broadband plan
The government of Ecuador has set ambitious national broadband plans to support growth in Internet subscriptions in the country.
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21 Feb
Apple aims for larger market share with mid-range iPhone SE 2
After a four-year hiatus, an updated iPhone SE, dubbed the SE 2, is expected to make an appearance in March.
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19 Feb
Apple’s acquisition of Xnor.ai will provide competitive edge at the device edge
Apple’s recent acquisition of Xnor.ai will help it challenge Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google, in the race to target emerging opportunities associated with artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing.
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19 Feb
Top influencers in MaaS in Q4 2019: Companies and individuals to follow
GlobalData research has found the top mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) influencers based on their performance and engagement online.
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19 Feb
Social media: The top five macroeconomic trends of 2020
The growth of democratic engagement on social media, particularly in a US presidential election year, has stoked fears that platforms could be abused to influence the result.
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18 Feb
Biggest influencers in healthtech in Q4 2019: The top companies and individuals to follow
GlobalData research has found the top healthtech influencers based on their performance and engagement online.
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18 Feb
Social media technology trends 2020
Many of the leading US and European social media firms will attempt to follow the lead of Tencent’s WeChat, and become all-encompassing super-apps in 2020.
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17 Feb
E-commerce technology trends 2020
Competition in e-commerce technology is increasingly becoming a straight fight between the US and China, with a handful of tech behemoths dominating the market and amassing huge troves of user data.
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17 Feb
Twitter round-up: François Chollet’s tweet on open data most popular AI tweet in Q4 2019
Verdict lists ten of the most popular tweets on AI technology in December 2019, based on data from GlobalData’s Influencer Platform.
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14 Feb
Top gaming software and technology trends 2020
The video games industry continues on its upward trajectory, driven by a combination of gaming software trends, including the rapid growth in popularity of esports (organized multiplayer video game competitions) and further breakthroughs in technologies like virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), which are enabling more immersive gaming experiences.
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14 Feb
Biggest influencers in big data in Q4 2019: The top companies and individuals to follow
GlobalData research has found the top big data influencers based on their performance and engagement online.
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13 Feb
Biggest influencers in telecommunications in Q4 2019: The top companies and individuals to follow
GlobalData research has found the top telecommunications influencers based on their performance and engagement online.
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13 Feb
Mainstreaming FMCG in game streaming
As a cultural product, gaming dwarfs both Hollywood and music combined, and the arrival of 5G is only likely to increase its reach.
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12 Feb
Samsung fends off smartphone rivals with new flagship releases
The world’s largest phone company Samsung could strengthen its lead with its latest smartphone releases, including its second foldable device.
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12 Feb
Wearable tech market is maturing, but still outside of the mainstream
Wearable tech is an emerging sub-market in the Internet of Things (IoT) theme but has yet to establish itself in the IoT mainstream, due to limited interoperability and underdeveloped self-contained functionalities.
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11 Feb
Application software technology trends 2020
The application software sector is undergoing profound and rapid change, with an inexorable shift away from on-premise software designed for traditional screen, mouse, and keyboard interfaces.
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11 Feb
Industrial automation technology trends 2020
Industrial automation is, in essence, the reason why industrial companies are undergoing digitisation programs.
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11 Feb
Biggest influencers in cybersecurity in Q4 2019: The top companies and individuals to follow
GlobalData research has found the top cybersecurity influencers based on their performance and engagement online.
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11 Feb
Biggest influencers in artificial intelligence in Q4 2019: The top companies and individuals to follow
GlobalData research has found the top artificial intelligence influencers based on their performance and engagement online.
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11 Feb
IT infrastructure technology trends 2020
The market for IT infrastructure equipment will be dominated by increased options for customers’ data management and increased demand for solutions that serve specific workloads.
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11 Feb
Consumer electronics technology trends 2020
A major concern for consumer electronics companies continues to be the impact on sales, profits, and supply chains of the ongoing trade war between the US and China.
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11 Feb
Semiconductor and chip macroeconomic trends 2020
China remains the primary industry shaper in semiconductors.
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11 Feb
Semiconductor and chip technology trends 2020
The central challenge of the industry is to process huge volumes of data a lot faster.
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10 Feb
Coronavirus can derail smartphone makers plans for Indian market
India largely depends on China for smartphone component production and the coronavirus will delay upcoming smartphone launches.
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10 Feb
The futility of cognitive behavioural therapy
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has claimed that one in four people will face mental illness at least once in their life.
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10 Feb
Attorney General turns his back on US innovation
US Attorney General William Barr raised eyebrows by suggesting in a February 6 speech that the US and its allies should consider buying a controlling stake in Nokia or Ericsson.
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7 Feb
Facial recognition, data harvesting and the end of privacy
A New York Times investigation has catapulted Clearview AI, a US-based facial recognition (FR) company, into the center of the privacy debate.
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7 Feb
Iowa’s mobile voting app highlights the problem with app modernisation
At this stage, no one really knows what went horribly wrong with the mobile app created to speed-up the process of counting state-wide votes during the Democratic caucus in Iowa earlier this week, but developers across the globe can only imagine.
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7 Feb
Google Fiber is dropping TV to focus on gigabit internet
Google Fiber’s decision to stop offering linear TV service to new customers is a sign of the times as much as it is part of Google’s efforts to realign its diminutive broadband internet business.