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Record first day India festive sales for Flipkart, Amazon
Flipkart and rival Amazon said both made record sales in the opening day of their annual festive season sales in India that kicked off over the weekend. Read more…
Month: September 2019
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SK Telecom drops the term ‘telecom’ – is it an industry trend?
SK Telecom’s Chairman Chey Tae-won believes that the time has come for his firm to drop the ‘telecom’ part of the company’s name, is it an industry trend? Read more…
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OSS – making men feel more masculine and in command
Do OSS GUIs we are designing help make developers or OSS operators “feel more masculine and in command”? Read more…
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Rogue weather app makes comeback, continues mobile ad fraud
A weather forecasting app has once again been caught making digital purchases without the knowledge of the phone’s owner. Read more…
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HSBC repurposes crime-spotting tool to scope new business
HSBC has converted a financial crime-spotting algorithm into one that can scope out new business opportunities. Read more…
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Huawei making 5G base stations without US components
Huawei Technologies has started making 5G base stations without US components and production should more than double next year. Read more…
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AI will be embedded in everything, and soon
AI is to computing what a Formula One car is to a bicycle but when you read about what some Universities are working on with AI, the mind begins to bend. Read more…
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Asia-Pac FSI expecting big improvements with AI
Survey of FSI industry in Asia-Pac found that organizations with AI expect to see 41% improvement in competitiveness in three years. Read more…
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Deep Learning market prospects to 2025: TMR Research
Global Deep Learning Market report, compiled by TMR Research, offers a summary on regional forecast, business size, and associated revenue estimations. Read more…
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Samsung to provide finance to smartphone buyers in India
Samsung Electronics is to provide finance to potential smartphone buyers, a company executive said on Thursday, in a bid to boost smartphone sales in India Read more…
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North Korea smartphone boom despite UN sanctions
North Korea is evading UN sanctions to cash in on soaring domestic demand for smartphones, using low-cost hardware imports Read more…
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Crocodile-spotting drones deployed in Australia
An Australian drone maker, Amazon and other firms have partnered to create a drone service to protect tourists from crocodiles in holiday destinations. Read more…
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It’s 2019 and fraudulent mobile apps are still ripping us off
Eleven years after the first app stores launched, fraudulent apps are still a problem. The latest example – a weather app – is even a repeat offender. Read more…
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US bill pledges $1b to replace rural Huawei and ZTE gear
A US House panel unveiled legislation that would authorize $1 billion for small and rural cellcos to replace equipment from companies like Huawei and ZTE. Read more…
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Alibaba unveils homegrown AI chip to supercharge e-commerce
Alibaba Group has unveiled its first AI inference chip, which it says will boost search, recommendation and customer service for e-commerce. Read more…
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WeWork chief Neumann ousted over valuation plunge
WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann will resign after SoftBank and other shareholders turned on him over a plunge in the company’s estimated valuation. Read more…
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Juvo reveals financial ID platform for underbanked mobile users
Juvo unveils its ‘Financial Identity as a Service’ (FiDaaS) platform, which builds financial IDs using alternative data such as mobile phone usage histories. Read more…
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Should you use Wi-Fi or LoRa for IoT? Why not both at once?
A report from the Wireless Broadband Alliance and the LoRa Alliance claims Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN can be combined to create a plethora of new IoT use cases. Read more…
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Online retail – a real struggle for bricks and mortar players
We are used to seeing big numbers in predictions about ecommerce and retail and the latest Juniper Research report into online sales does not disappoint. According to the report ‘online retail sales will exceed $6 Read more…
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Higher education in APAC set to double rate of innovation with AI
Microsoft/IDC study found that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will help double the rate of innovation improvements for higher education institutions. Read more…