Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: a history of the future; Moonbase 2040; quantum computers in five years; social credit scoring may Read more…
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has released the findings of its new Competitor Intelligence service. While many global companies have had developing-market strategies in place for several years, there has been a steady increase in Read more…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The US is working on a counter-offer to stop Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies from building internet infrastructure in Papua New Guinea, its top diplomat to Australia said on Friday. The bid Read more…
The founders of Instagram are following the founder of WhatsApp in exiting Facebook which, in my opinion, is some of the best news Facebook has had in this torrid year. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger Read more…
AT&T announced it has created a suite of blockchain solutions for its enterprise customers designed to work with technology from IBM and Microsoft. The telco says enterprises can use the solutions as they automate and Read more…
Good news! Qatar’s Ooredoo has found an application for its recently launched 5G network: staging PR stunts with autonomous flying taxis to showcase what 5G can probably do one day. Ooredoo has “commercially” launched 5G Read more…
Ericsson and Telstra say they have deployed and tested NB-IoT data connections up to 100 km from a base station on Telstra’s commercial network — the longest-range NB-IoT connection of its kind – which will Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple and Salesforce are entering a partnership in which Apple will help build features such as its Siri voice assistant deeper into Salesforce‘s own mobile apps, which are widely used in the sales and marketing Read more…
The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU) has released the findings of its new Competitor Intelligence service. While many global companies have had developing-market strategies in place for several years, there has been a steady increase Read more…
ITEM: Former Google chief Eric Schmidt believes that within the next ten years, the internet as we know it will be bifurcated into two sections: one run by China, and the other by the US. Read more…
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