Accenture has released Fjord Trends 2017, its tenth annual report examining the most significant emergent digital trends expected to disrupt organizations and society in the year ahead, from mixed realities (AR, VR, etc) and humanized Read more…
Amazon is planning new brick-and-mortar grocery chains. Uber now delivers food and even puppies. We’re seeing more delivery companies of all kinds. The capability to deliver quickly is becoming more important all the time for Read more…
The vast majority of Asian retailers and manufacturers plan to adopt disruptive technologies to boost competitiveness, according to a survey from NTT Communications, but security regulations, legacy IT infrastructure and procurement complexity are key barriers Read more…
KARACHI/LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Taxi-hailing service Careem introduced women drivers in Pakistan on Wednesday, a rare initiative in a deeply conservative Muslim country where women account for only 22% of the workforce. Careem has a Read more…
Accenture has opened a flagship location for Accenture Interactive in Hong Kong that will serve as a space for the company’s clients to co-create, innovate and apply the latest digital technologies and experiences. The 40,000+-square-foot Read more…
Australians are consuming digital content – especially video – at record levels, which is driving significant shifts in everything from mobile device usage and services to infrastructure and content delivery. So says the Australian Communications Read more…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Airbnb launched a new programme on Thursday called Trips to transform itself into a travel company, marking the most significant expansion since the company was founded eight years ago as a Read more…
It is not just the election of Donald Trump that gives us pause for thought (and a variety of other emotions – see Facebook for most of them). There seem to be a host of Read more…
More than half of technology professionals in APAC believe a significant part of their job will be automated within ten years, rendering their current skills redundant, according to the Harvey Nash Technology Survey 2017. The Read more…
There are moments in our lives where we find ourselves at a crossroad, afraid, confused and without a roadmap. The choice we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. After almost Read more…
Talk about disruptive. Against all odds, Donald Trump is now going to be president of the US. And the question on everyone’s lips (apart from perhaps “WTF?” and “How in the hell did he do Read more…
It must be getting close to the holiday season. I don’t say this because I’ve noticed decorations popping up in stores – I hardly get out these days – but because of the increased activity Read more…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Research and development spending by the world’s biggest companies is accelerating into software and services while investment in physical products is falling sharply, an annual study by consulting firm PwC has found. Read more…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s tech industry giants are ploughing hundreds of millions of dollars into what they’re betting will be the country’s next big internet craze: Uber for bikes. A symbol of China’s cities Read more…
Artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent apps/things, virtual/augmented reality and blockchain are among the top disruptive technology trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2017, paving the way for the coming “intelligent digital mesh”, says Read more…
A report from Citi Group on the state of the fintech arena makes interesting, disturbing and/or exciting reading. This depends on where you are sitting. If you are a bank, you will be disturbed; if you Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Regulators in Beijing and Shanghai are proposing restrictions on who can operate as drivers for ride-hailing services such as Didi Chuxing and Uber, possibly making it tougher for those services to recruit Read more…
The people at Citi group have produced a report that runs to almost 150 pages and says they are a bit depressed about telecoms stocks. Long thought of as “dividend rich, defensive stocks”, they see these Read more…
Major companies are keen to embrace digital transformation, but are finding it a hard slog because they’re saddled with clunky and uncooperative legacy IT systems and infrastructures. That’s according to a new research report from Read more…
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