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IBM Just Unveiled the ‘World’s Smallest Computer’ (The Verge)

IBM is kicking off its IBM Think 2018 conference this week with “5 in 5,” a collection of IBM Research inventions and technologies “that could change our lives in the next fi... More

Why Apple Cares About Mobile Game Developers (GamesBeat)

If you build it, they will come. For years, it seemed didn’t really embrace the game developers who flocked to the iPhone and filled the App Store with games that consumers downl... More

This SAP-Built Mobile App is Taking the $1.7 Trillion Fashion Industry by Storm (Forbes)

What does innovation look like in the digital age? If you ask Alicia Tillman, CMO for enterprise software company SAP, her answer might surprise you. Not only was SAP an official t... More

PwC: 10% Own an AI Device, 32% Plan to Get One, 58% Don’t Want Any (MediaPost)

Artificial intelligence continues to improve in devices like smart speakers, but that doesn’t mean consumers want it. The majority of consumers don’t yet have any AI devices... More

Facebook’s Role in Data Misuse Sets Off Storms on Two Continents (NY Times)

Facebook on Sunday faced a backlash about how it protects user data, as American and British lawmakers demanded that it explain how a political data firm with links to President Tr... More

Study: More Shoppers Want Customer Service from Gadgets Over Humans (Reuters)

Most buyers prefer to be left alone as they shop in store for items like apparel and prefer to use in-store technology for customer service over personalized attention from store e... More

It’s About the Interface, Stupid (Forbes)

Why has Amazon hired more developers to work on Echo than Google has for the entire company, including vital business divisions as YouTube or Waymo? Because in the United States, A... More

Apple is Secretly Developing Its Own Screens for the First Time (Bloomberg)

Apple is designing and producing its own device displays for the first time, using a secret manufacturing facility near its California headquarters to make small numbers of the scr... More

Beyond Voice Recognition: Giving Products the Sense of Hearing (CW)

The smart home category is buoyant. Currently on the forefront in terms of public profile are voice activated smart home assistants and smart speakers. Apple, Google and their peer... More

Google Moves Into In-App Ads, Launches Open Bidding (MediaPost)

Google announced plans to aggressively move into in-app advertising with the launch of new strategies to monetize mobile gaming apps through video and rewards, as well as an innova... More

SAP Adds New Partners to Open Network of Connected Vehicles (SSN)

SAP has added new partners and customers to the SAP Vehicles Network solution, an open, standards-based services marketplace. New secured and tokenized payment options from Masterc... More

The Future of Streaming Television: The Plot Thickens (Morgan Stanley Ideas)

It's no secret that Internet distribution of content is disrupting television. By our count, there were 120 million aggregate over-the-top (OTT) subscriptions by the end of 2017 in... More

Netflix’s Newest App Isn’t for Consumers, but the People Making Its Shows (Variety)

First, Netflix used technology to reinvent the way movies and TV shows are being watched. Now, it wants to do the same thing with the way they’re being made. To that end, Netf... More

3 Ways AI Can Make the Most of Mobile Data (CMO)

There’s no arguing that smartphones are firmly entrenched in our everyday lives. In fact, recent Adobe research found that consumers spend the same amount of time sleeping as the... More

Hulu’s Interactive Ad Lets Viewers Buy Movie Tickets With a Remote (Variety)

Subscribers to Hulu sometimes use the streaming-video site to watch movies. Now they can use certain ads on the service to buy movie tickets. You might call it a commercial inte... More

Immersive Virtual Reality Creates a New Currency in Storytelling (Adobe Blog)

In the last 10 years, we’ve learned to rely on connected devices — smartphones to tablets to the Internet of Things — to communicate. And today, digital technology is transfo... More

Tata Communications Powers F1 TV App, Bringing Live Grand Prix Action Directly to Mobile Devices (MESA)

Tata Communications is powering the new F1® TV mobile app, which will transform how people are able to watch and engage with the sport. Starting with the 2018 season, Formula 1 wi... More

How HQ Trivia is Inspiring a New On-Demand Viewing Model for Apps (Adweek)

For those few uninitiated souls, HQ works like this: In real-time, the show’s emcee poses 12 questions with three possible answers, while players vie for a shot at splitting a ja... More

Internet of Things Can’t Connect the Next Billion Until We Reinvent Mobile (Forbes)

Susan Galer, SAP: The most innovative technology on the planet today has been in our back pockets all along: smart phones. Yup, you heard right, mobile has re-emerged as the revolu... More

We Won’t See 5G Devices Until Next Year, But its Time Has Finally Come (Wired UK)

References to 5G are everywhere at MWC 2018. At the booth for NTT Docomo, a Japanese mobile network provider, a humanoid robot clutching a paintbrush scrawls a Japanese character o... More

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