Salesforce billion dollar deal with Tableau – Who will gain and who will lose?
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Salesforce has long remained the stellar no.1 in CRM and a leading company in cloud computing. It has witnessed 26% of year on year revenue growth earning USD 13.3 billion in FY 2019. On the other hand, Tableau earned USD 0.9 billion of revenue in FY 2019, a stunning 41% of year on year growth […]
Challenges mount for Huawei following its split from Google
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Google and Huawei are two of the most prominent name in the tech industry which has been involved in strategic alliance with one another. The companies combining their resources have been able to collectively achieve monumental growth and success. But the recent ban on Huawei by USA has distorted the seemingly successful partnership between Google […]
The Fintech Revolution: What’s coming for Europe?
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The experience we have of the traditional financial service industry is rapidly transforming with emergence of open banking, crowdsourcing, regulatory technologies, cryptocurrency and so forth. Global Investment in Fintech has grown substantially to $111.8 billion in 2018 compared to $ 50.8 billion in 2017. While the rise is primarily driven by the Americas particularly USA, […]
Boeing 737 Crisis: A hard lesson for Autonomous Vehicle Industry
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It’s not wrong to assume that autonomous vehicles are futuristic technologies but what most of us don’t realize is that this concept debuted long ago; in fact a well dig into its history takes us to the world of Leonardo da Vinci and beyond. Since then, key breakthroughs covering land, sea and air, built a […]
A Slowing Economy: The Dismaying Results of Trade Tension
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The IMF cut its forecast for the global economy and predicted that in 2019, the economy will grow at its weakest clip in three years, thanks to the trade tensions and uncertainty in financial markets, slowing demand across the Europe. It’s the IMF’s second downgrade in just three months, and now, IMF predicts 3.5% global […]
US Recession: Calculated Approximation Or Mere Overestimation?
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For quite a while now, there has been ongoing debate whether the world’s largest economy will plunge towards recession in coming years. Various economists have predicted US economy to suffer in 2019 with real possibility of recession in 2020 or later. On contrary, some experts don’t believe that a recession is an immediate threat to […]
‘2018 in a Nutshell’ – Major Economic Stories and Key Developments
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2018 brought several significant economic developments, technological revolutions, business-integrations and political affairs. Like other years, past year was no exception in terms of enhanced laws, regulations and frameworks. Cyber security remained one of the hot topics and yet 2018 saw major tiers of data breaches & security attacks. Users’ privacy and data protection received worldwide […]
The Second Largest Data Breach: Putting Marriot’s Starwood under the Microscope
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The cyber assault of Starwood Hotels and Resorts, that started as far back as 2014, was one of the largest known thefts of personal records, second only to a 2013 breach of Yahoo that affected three billion user accounts and larger than a 2017 episode involving the credit bureau, Equifax. Marriott, has more than 6,700 […]
The Rising Trend of Sharing Economy
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Sharing economy is rapidly growing, allowing users to gain temporary access to various resources. According to Statista (2018), the value of sharing economy is expected to reach USD 335 billion in 2025 from USD 15 billion in 2014. The study led by eMarketer in 2017 predicts 86.5 million users by 2021 in U.S sharing economy. […]
Merging the Physical and Digital Worlds, Augmented Reality bridges the Virtual & Physical Gaps
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Heads-up displays with early forms of artificial intelligence (AI) have made organizations to experiment with tools that knock into the possibilities of augmented reality (AR). AR has the potential to take consumer interactions to the next level. While augmented reality remains in the experimentation phase for most companies, research shows that the market is expected […]
