20 years ago, PayPal was a scrappy startup, a FinTech disruptor. 2 decades later, the company is a financial giant, in some ways part of the financial establishment it initially took on. Still, the industry continues to evolve, and new technologies threaten even currency itself. Cognitive Business News founder and publisher Loren Moss recently was...
"The revolution was interrupted . . . but hopefully not stopped," writes Carrie Johnson of Forrester Research.
In exploring the benefits of using AI to generate ideas, Ricardo Garza of Softtek explains that one of the most intriguing aspects of neural network technology is its ability to discern patterns that humans overlook. Businesses have long recognized that the best and most innovative ideas usually come from the front lines – originating from the individuals...
Global consultancy PWC has partnered again this year with local information technology organization CINTEL to recognize the Colombian companies that have achieved the most when it comes to business transformation. The winners of this second-annual prize will be announced next week during Andicom 2018, the largest ITC and innovation conference in Colombia, in four different...
The World Economic Forum, the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, today opened the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan alongside inaugural partners Hitachi, Horiba, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, Salesforce, Sompo Holdings and Suntory Holdings. The Tokyo-based Center will bring together leading businesses, start-ups, civil society, academia and international organizations to shape the trajectory of emerging...
“Of all the industries in the world right now, mining might actually be the ripest for disruptive change."
Digital transformation will begin adding more than $150 billion to the GDP of India each year by 2021 and begin pushing overall economic expansion by an annual growth rate of 1%.
After spurring Intel’s growth in the CPU market and making the technology company a household name, IBM may be issuing a direct challenge to the chip maker by releasing its new Power9 CPU to the open market. In what may turn out to be a soap opera without the sex or bad lighting, Google seems...
Before launching Cognitive Business News and Unido Digital, I worked as an editor covering customer experience and disruptive technologies in the BPO sector. We are currently researching ways to apply many of these deep learning and artificial intelligence technologies like Lex, SageMaker, DeepLens, and Polly to business use cases. One of the things we are...
The Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA) in association with the Caribbean Export Development Agency, Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) and the European Union hosted the first-ever pan-Caribbean outsourcing conference on December 6, 2017 at the Iberostar Rose Hall Beach Hotel in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Titled ‘Outsource to the Caribbean Conference 2017’ (OCC 2017), the...