Category: Industry News

Fintech Investments Should Not Surprise You Reading about fintech investments doubling every year is like talking about how quickly a teenager grows after puberty hits him. This article suggests that fintech investments are nothing surprising, and the increase in funding should not shock us, rather what comes after fintech should cause us to think. What could probably come after fintech? Edtech? #fintech #bigchange Univision Acquires Gawker for $135 Million If you remember reading Jezebel and other online magazines owned by Gawker, hold your breath. Univision has agreed to purchase the online media company for a whopping $135 million. One of the reasons could be to tap the millennial audience that Gawker always has claimed. #corporate #publishing The Story behind DevOps Culture The rising DevOps culture among enterprises is something to think about. It has begun to change the way we work with the cloud and also with developing apps. Rubrik has an entirely different method to work with DevOps and they might be on to something. This article explores in detail what Rubrik is up to. #cloud #trends Should You Be Using Cloud Banking Apps? A number of people are using banking aggregators such as Mint.com and Personal Capital to manage their finances. With organizations and individuals preferring banking apps to manage multiple accounts, a few security questions can be raised. This article looks at the benefits and risks of using cloud banking apps. #fintech #cloud Uber Refuses English Tests for Its Drivers Could it be unreasonable to ask taxi drivers to take language tests? Uber thinks so. In English-speaking UK, it’s always been the norm to ask taxi drivers to take an English test to pro0ve they can communicate with passengers. Uber disagrees, and has filed a case against TFL. It is probably a good idea if immigrant drivers knew how to converse in the local language? #corporate #trends Cyberspatial Threat to Health With most of using technology consistently, can there be a cyberspatial threat to our health? David Katz looks at this issue and offers some solutions as well. No more reasons to worry about that glowing screen in your hand. #health #trends DuoSkin Takes Tattoos the Wearable Tech Way DuoSkin is developed MIT and is likely to change the way we look at wearable tech. DuoSkin is a tattoo that is not permanent but allows you to use your own skin as an interface for phones and computers. Read this article to understand more about it. #vr #mobile Lithium Battery May Help Cellphones Last Longer One of the biggest problems we face with present-day cellphones and laptops is that their batteries do not last very long. This new lithium metal battery can make smartphones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long. #mobile Google Seeks Reddit Help to Recognize Accents Google has been consistently working on voice recognition, a subtopic under artificial intelligence. Now, the tech giant is turning to Reddit to improve accent recognition. With a diverse group of people using its voice-based services, Google is quite right to focus on accents. #vr #ai Google Duo Takes on FaceTime If you haven’t already heard, Google Duo is raising inquisitive looks across boardrooms and people are getting curious about what is being touted as a FaceTime replacement. It is purported to make video calling between operating systems easier, as Brian Chen puts it. #mobile #corporate #apps Visuals Bring More Traffic to Social Campaigns If your social media campaign isn’t working as you intended it to, you perhaps should be sharing more visuals. Visuals are known to garner more clicks and interest. Find out what you can improve your social media situation. #marketing #social Could Pokemon Go Help You in Marketing? Pokemon Go may have already popped on your screen, in the news you read or by way of your friends’ social posts. Yet, there may be a marketing benefit too. This article actually lists three of those marketing benefits. #marketing #trends That Literary Article You Plan to Publish Needs to Be ‘Clickbait-y’ Planning to publish a report or a review in a literary journal? Your academic article is more likely to be read if it comes with ‘clickbait-y’ characteristics. This probably means, having a more interesting title. Read this article to understand what this means. #social #marketing #publishing What Could the Future of Online Dating Apps Be? Falling in love and taking people out on dates have not changed much. However, the way people get set is extremely different from how things used to be. In the future, even Tinder may seem quaint and old-fashioned, with VR and AI coming into the picture. #vr #ai #mobile How Instagram Is Fueling Facebook’s Success When Facebook purchased Instagram, none of us realized why it was so important for the tech company to purchase a photo sharing app. It is becoming clearer now, and it might be helping Facebook to meet the demands of the future. Read on. #mobile #trends #bigchange

Linux May Have Compromised Android Security We all assumed Linux to be safe from malicious threats. Unfortunately, an attempt to secure TCP/IP has allowed practically anybody to hijack connections between Linux and Android systems. Not good news for those with Android phones. The good news is, there is a fix. Learn how to protect yourself from this new threat. #security Box Comes to Canada and Australia Cloud data storage is changing lives, and Box knows it. Little wonder then, that Box is expanding into Australia and Canada as well. Read more about Box and its new regional data storage product Box Zones, here. #cloud #corporate Is Twitter Playing Moderator? Is Twitter trying to play the cop? Dick Costolo and the team apparently, secretly censored abusive language during a Q&A session in which US President Obama was a participant. This revelation raises questions about censorship, privacy, and digital decency. #social Intel Purchases AI Firm If Artificial Intelligence still has not roused your interest, you might be surprised to learn that Intel acquired Nervana Systems. Nervana Systems specializes in machine learning technology, and this is one of the biggest areas in AI. Read more to update yourself. #AI #corporate Augmented Reality Games and the Ethics Code Whether you have played Pokemon Go or not, you are sure to have heard it. Some people love it, whereas others hate it. They hate it because it is invasive. Do we need a code of ethics for augmented reality-enabled games like Pokemon Go? This opinion piece explores. #ideas #AR  

Fintech Investments Should Not Surprise You Reading about fintech investments doubling every year is like talking about how quickly a teenager grows after puberty hits him. This article suggests that fintech investments are nothing surprising, and the increase in funding should not shock us, rather what comes after fintech should cause us to think. What could probably come after fintech? Edtech? #fintech #bigchange Univision Acquires Gawker for $135 Million If you remember reading Jezebel and other online magazines owned by Gawker, hold your breath. Univision has agreed to purchase the online media company for a whopping $135 million. One of the reasons could be to tap the millennial audience that Gawker always has claimed. #corporate #publishing The Story behind DevOps Culture The rising DevOps culture among enterprises is something to think about. It has begun to change the way we work with the cloud and also with developing apps. Rubrik has an entirely different method to work with DevOps and they might be on to something. This article explores in detail what Rubrik is up to. #cloud #trends Should You Be Using Cloud Banking Apps? A number of people are using banking aggregators such as Mint.com and Personal Capital to manage their finances. With organizations and individuals preferring banking apps to manage multiple accounts, a few security questions can be raised. This article looks at the benefits and risks of using cloud banking apps. #fintech #cloud Uber Refuses English Tests for Its Drivers Could it be unreasonable to ask taxi drivers to take language tests? Uber thinks so. In English-speaking UK, it’s always been the norm to ask taxi drivers to take an English test to pro0ve they can communicate with passengers. Uber disagrees, and has filed a case against TFL. It is probably a good idea if immigrant drivers knew how to converse in the local language? #corporate #trends Cyberspatial Threat to Health With most of using technology consistently, can there be a cyberspatial threat to our health? David Katz looks at this issue and offers some solutions as well. No more reasons to worry about that glowing screen in your hand. #health #trends DuoSkin Takes Tattoos the Wearable Tech Way DuoSkin is developed MIT and is likely to change the way we look at wearable tech. DuoSkin is a tattoo that is not permanent, but allows you to use your own skin as an interface for phones and computers. Read this article to understand more about it. #vr #mobile Lithium Battery May Help Cellphones Last Longer One of the biggest problems we face with present-day cellphones and laptops is that that their batteries do not last very long. This new lithium metal battery can make smartphones, drones and electric cars last twice as long. #mobile Google Seeks Reddit Help to Recognize Accents Google has been consistently working on voice recognition, a subtopic under artificial intelligence. Now, the tech giant is turning to Reddit to improve accent recognition. With a diverse group of people using its voice-based services, Google is quite right to focus on accents. #vr #ai Google Duo Takes on FaceTime If you haven’t already heard, Google Duo is raising inquisitive looks across boardrooms and people are getting curious about what is being touted as a FaceTime replacement. It is purported to make video calling between operating systems easier, as Brian Chen puts it. #mobile #corporate #apps Visuals Bring More Traffic to Social Campaigns If your social media campaign isn’t working as you intended it to, you perhaps should be sharing more visuals. Visuals are known to garner more clicks and interest. Find out what you can improve your social media situation. #marketing #social Could Pokemon Go Help You in Marketing? Pokemon Go may have already popped on your screen, in the news you read or by way of your friends’ social posts. Yet, there may be a marketing benefit too. This article actually lists three of those marketing benefits. #marketing #trends That Literary Article You Plan to Publish Needs to Be ‘Clickbait-y’ Planning to publish a report or a review in a literary journal? Your academic article is more likely to be read if it comes with ‘clickbait-y’ characteristics. This probably means, having a more interesting title. Read this article to understand what this means. #social #marketing #publishing What Could the Future of Online Dating Apps Be? Falling in love and taking people out on dates have not changed much. However, the way people get set is extremely different from how things used to be. In the future, even Tinder may seem quaint and old-fashioned, with VR and AI coming into picture. #vr #ai #mobile How Instagram Is Fueling Facebook’s Success When Facebook purchased Instagram, none of us realized why it was so important for the tech company to purchase a photo sharing app. It is becoming clearer now, and it might be helping Facebook to meet the demands of the future. Read on. #mobile #trends #bigchange

  Cisco to Lay Off 14,000 People Cisco has long been a hardware company and is now slowly moving towards a cloud-enabled software service model. In the next few weeks, some 14,000 people are likely to be laid off. This is almost 20% of their workforce globally and is likely to raise questions. #cloud #corporate Target Reveals Apple Devices Not Selling Much Target disclosed that people are not buying Apple products as much as they expected. Being one of the largest retail store chains, Target’s sales figures may prove to be disappointing for Apple investors. This also may hint at a plateau phase of tech products, and a move towards software services. #mobile #marketing Apple to Open R&D Center in China Apple is planning to open its new R&D center in China. This is the first time Apple is opening a center in this country, and the company already has 9,000 employees in China. Apple’s products are very popular among Chinese, though the government has tried to ban some of its services in the country. #mobile #corporate Google Classroom Gets an Update With EdTech being the next big frontier, Google Classroom has been used by students, parents and their teachers. Now, Google has added new tools to the app so that it helps parents to track their kids’ activities in a class. Helicopter parents are likely going to enjoy this update a lot. #apps #EdTech Amazon Teams Up with Product Hunt If you hadn’t heard about Product Hunt, it is a San Francisco-based startup that curates the best new apps, gadgets and websites. Now Amazon has teamed up with this company and will advertise products with “Featured on Product Hunt”, if a product has been featured so. Certainly, something useful for consumers before they make a purchase. #marketing #corporate Future Maybe in Hybrid Cloud With cloud computing making its inroads deep into enterprise space, it is no more news when people adopt it. The future of cloud computing is going to be based on hybrid models, and this article discusses that hybrid cloud will likely be innovators choice in the near future. #cloud #trends Will Content Marketing Be Taken Over By AI? With robotics making inroads into almost every industry vertical out there, content marketing might soon be taken over by AI as well. However, content marketing cannot be fully automated, and there will always be editorial roles available for human employees. This isn’t something that people should worry about. #ai #marketing Intel Launches Headsets with AR and VR Intel is back in news with its virtual reality headsets. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel revealed its snazzy new headset that combines virtual reality with augmented reality. This is going to be one product to watch out for. #vr #corporate Twitter to Live Stream NFL Games If you thought you couldn’t do with those NFL games, Twitter is planning to launch an Apple TV app to feature free live streaming of the games. We need to remember that Apple has often collaborated with Twitter in the past, and may have a slight soft corner for Twitter executives. #social #apps Pinterest Brings Video Ads With almost every social networking site making use of video ads, Pinterest is finally playing catch up. Its CEO recently revealed that Pinterest will offer video ads to advertisers. It is important to note that Pinterest demographic tends to lean towards women. #social #marketing Dropbox to Go Public Soon Dropbox has been one of the biggest successes of cloud storage. It is especially popular among businesses that are looking at enterprise storage. Now, the company may go public as early as 2017. Read this article to learn more about this. #cloud #corporate BFSI Dominates Cloud Infrastructure Market A recent report suggests that BFSI dominates cloud infrastructure market. Often provided on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), cloud has helped a number of banks to offer quality services at a lower cost. The report suggests that BFSI has a 13% market share in cloud infrastructure services. #fintech #cloud Find Yourself with This Meditation App If meditation could calm and heal you, you will probably interested in this new app called Finding Your True Self. This app has been launched by Deepak Chopra and makes use of virtual reality. He says, even reality is simulated. Find out for yourself if this one interests you. #apps #vr #health Automatic Updates Its Tool Automatic has updated its automobile fitness tracker. It connects with your car’s on-board diagnostics and helps you to understand how your car is doing. Even if you lend your car to someone else, you can always receive notifications thanks to 3G-enabled reports. #apps New Robotic Leg Mystifies People Here is a new robotic leg that might get you interested. Named as ‘GOAT leg’, it is an acronym for Gearless Omni-directional Acceleration-vectoring Topology. What this really does differently is navigated different terrains without many difficulties. Read this article for more information. #vr