Record labels and movie production companies work hard to protect their copyrights, especially when it comes to digital distribution solutions, which has resulted in all kinds of restrictions in how content can be copied, distributed Read more…
Digitization has been talked about for years. It is hard to count how many industries talk about it, how many consulting projects plan it, and how many new services and processes have been created based Read more…
We’re seeing an increasingly polarized debate over business models: the zero-sum game vs expanding the pie. But it’s more complicated than labeling a given model one or the other. We often have a tendency to Read more…
Recently I was watching a discussion about the ethical questions of AI – in other words, how to guarantee AI is more good than bad to human beings and societies. Nowadays many discussions are easily Read more…
“The West monetizes web services with the advertising model, and the East monetizes them with FinTech.” I heard this comment at a think tank event I recently participated in. It is a very interesting observation. Read more…
The latest statistics show that the ICO market grew again in March. Yet at the same time, more and more people are skeptical about the ICO market. An interesting aspect of the ICO phenomenon is Read more…
The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal is a necessary wake-up call, but the issue is much bigger than Facebook, and the less visible aspects of data collection arguably present much greater risks. I was listening Read more…
Contactless payment cards are almost everywhere these days. Cryptocurrency coins and tokens are now being issued by many companies, especially via ICOs. Many parties are planning blockchain-based settlement solutions. At the same time plug-and-play type Read more…
Changes take time … until they suddenly seem to appear out of nowhere. Financial services are at the cusp of a remarkable change that few bankers realize. The decentralization of technology, new regulations, increasing competitiveness Read more…
Cryptocurrency mining requires a lot of computing power and electricity. This has been seen as a major issue with currencies like Bitcoin. Blockchain now has many models, as I have written previously, and it is especially Read more…
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