We live in exciting times, where it has become possible to send money across the globe nearly instantaneously, where you can create value out of nothing and where we are working towards a future that is decentralised. The first application that kickstarted this revolution was Bitcoin when it was launched
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Just as word-of-mouth can make or break your business, your online reputation can either help or hurt your business. In today’s digital world, our “real” lives are increasingly becoming merged with our digital lives and it is transcending to the world of business and e-commerce. But
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The rise of cloud storage has helped companies collect and manage massive amounts of data. Data comes from corporate systems, Internet of Things objects and unstructured sources like online forums. New analytics tools like Hadoop help companies make sense of that data. Yet simply having data and analysis tools doesn’
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The Internet of Things [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/category/internet-of-things/] is expected to grow to 8.4 billion devices in 2017 [http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3598917], with predictions of more than 20 billion devices by 2020. While this market is growing rapidly, it faces a major
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With technological advancement, artificial intelligence is set to touch and modify the financial sector, specifically retail banking in many different ways. It’s still the beginning stages of AI adoption for most banks. A Narrative Science survey [https://thefinancialbrand.com/63322/artificial-intelligence-ai-banking-big-data-analytics/] highlighted that
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Distributed ledger technologies such as Blockchain are a hot topic at the moment. Startups incorporating blockchain technology are raising hundreds of millions of dollars using a new form of crowdfunding called the Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Many of these startups offer new solutions for existing problems or are adapting existing
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We have an outdated identity system. You might not be aware of it because you are using it on a daily basis and all seems to be fine. However, identity faces a major crisis and we need to solve some big challenges. To achieve this, we have to bring identity
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The earth is having a difficult time, for quite a while now. Deforestation is still happening at a large scale across the globe, in Brazil alone, 40,200 hectares [http://www.redd-monitor.org/2014/10/31/what-next-brazils-deforestation-soared-by-290-in-september-2014/] were deforested in
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Prescriptive analytics can be seen as the future of Big Data. If we see descriptive analytics as the foundation of Business Intelligence and we see predictive analytics as the basis of Big Data, then we can state that prescriptive analytics will be the future of Big Data. There are three
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Of course, you know all about web analytics or social media analytics, which has been around for years. However, web analytics and social media analytics alone is not enough to gain an understanding of your (online) business. There is another type of analytics that cannot be overlooked, which is content
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