In many industries – such as airlines, retail, and media – disruption has been linked to new low-cost, almost commodity-type services. Southwest Airlines and Ryanair paved the way for low-cost flights, online news has become Read more…
If China Unicom’s so-called “2I2C” strategy of combining close commercial partnerships with minority investments by internet companies and industry vertical specialists is successful, it could not only serve as a model for 5G development in Read more…
(Reuters) – Kik Interactive, the Ontario, Canada-based creator of the global chat platform Kik, valued at $1 billion, said on Tuesday it will launch in two weeks the sale of its own cryptocurrency which is Read more…
Kyocera announced that its subsidiary, Kyocera Communication Systems (KCCS) has started joint research with the University of Tsukuba to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of detecting melanoma and other skin diseases by analyzing Read more…
Indonesian mobile operator Telkomsel has expanded its TCash digital payments offering by conducting trials of its TCash Pass payment service for the Semarang Rapid Transit Bus (RTB). Telkomsel developed TCash Pass to address the need Read more…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Global ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies will give free insurance to its 450,000 driver partners in India that will cover death, disability or hospitalization due to accidents, the company said on Tuesday. Read more…
REUTERS – Technology company Apple and professional services company Accenture said Tuesday they will team up to help businesses build better applications for iOS, the operating system that powers Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Accenture helps Read more…
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Symantec, a digital security company, says it has identified a sustained cyber spying campaign, likely state-sponsored, against Indian and Pakistani entities involved in regional security issues. In a threat intelligence report that Read more…
For the past five years, the primary impact of shifting IT platforms was to drive greater data center concentration and the creation of a core IT portfolio. It included the consolidation of smaller corporate data Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Thousands of ATMs and electronic card payment machines in Indonesia went offline over the weekend, and it might take two more weeks before full service is restored, after an outage from a Read more…
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