Very interesting Knowledge@Wharton article.
The explosion of affordable smartphones is converting three new users per second !!! For most of them, “the smartphone is their first camera, first TV, first video device, first Walkman, and first MP3 player. It may even be their first alarm clock and calculator,”.
This tsunami is having a significant impact on India's culture. The smartphone ...
Things Smartphone, smartwatch, smart TV, smart glasses, smart fridge, smart button (dash button), smart ‘anything’. With the technological progress and the emergence of the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) it seems that everything is becoming ‘smart’. The number of devices connected to internet have been increasing exponentially over the last few years. Gartner forecast that in 2015 4.9 billion “things...
Since 2011, adoption of digital-banking services has soared across Asia. Consumers are turning to computers, smartphones, and tablets more often to do business with their banks, while visiting branches and calling service lines less frequently. In developed Asian markets, Internet banking is now near universal, and smartphone banking has grown more than threefold since 2011. In emerging Asian mar...
Interesting read about where the next billion online consumers will come from. "We may be on a journey toward a digital planet — but we’re all traveling at different speeds."
Very soon, Nigeria will be going to the polls to elect its president. Despite its position as the biggest economy in the African continent, it is yet to scratch its potential. As it is usually the case with its elections, businesses, multinationals and partner countries slow down activities pending the outcome of the elections, watching out for signs of unrest.
This shouldn't be the case. Fortu...
"Even though it's very limited in scope, Taobao [Alibaba's marketplace division] is delivering real goods to real people, which is a step further than its Western counterpart Amazon has gone. That said, which company will actually roll out a fully functioning drone-based delivery service remains to be seen and [such a deployment] is still a long way off."
Business Analytics is expecting to create new markets.
Accordingly to Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, data are the facts and information that we create, collect and/or research to find out things or to make decisions. And big data?
As reported by IBM the humanity produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day, this data came from everywhere, like: posts to social media sites, digital pic...
The two leading etailers in South Africa, Kalahari.com and Takealot.com, announced that they are merging their operations. The need to scale to effectively compete with local bricks and mortar stores as well as foreign etailers like Amazon were cited as the main drivers behind the move. Once approved by the competition commission the merged company will trade under Takealot.com and is expected to...
