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BTI Studios Names Gregory CEO (MESA)

BTI Studios’ founder and CEO Björn Lifvergren is stepping down from his post and transitioning to the company’s board of directors, with BTI naming industry vet Shaun Gregory ... More

HCL, Manchester United and Digital Transformation at the World’s Biggest Football Club (GigaBit)

Manchester United has reached a significant milestone in its HCL Technologies-powered digital transformation journey with the launch of a major new app. The world's biggest footbal... More

Building Smart Applications Using Azure (Wipro Blog)

Application built with technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Intelligent Automation, Mixed Reality, Machine Learning (ML), and Internet of Things (IoT) are superchargi... More

IBM, Travelport Partner on New Platform (Gigabit)

IBM insists that a new artificial intelligence-based platform, developed with Travelport, will disrupt the travel industry. Delivered via the IBM Cloud, IBM Travel Manager can trac... More

Smart City Technology: It’s All About the Internet of Things (Information Age)

The umbrella term of a smart city, is a city that uses data and technologies to improve the lives of the citizens and businesses that inhabit it. So, what are these technologies? I... More

Youku, Irdeto Team to Offer Secure, Premium Content to China (Rapid TV News)

Youku calculates that in 2018, OTT services in China will draw over 229 million viewers and then triple in size within the next five years. In order to take advantage of this, Youk... More

IBM-Maersk Blockchain Platform Adds 92 Clients as Part of Global Launch (Forbes)

Some of the largest supply chain companies in the world have begun the process of moving their work to a blockchain. A previously unnamed collaborative effort between the world’s... More

Microsoft Introduces Ethereum Proof-of-Authority Algorithm on Azure (Cointelegraph)

Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure has introduced a proof-of-authority (PoA) algorithm on its Ethereum (ETH) blockchain product, according to a blog post Aug. 7. The new Ethereum n... More

Will We Someday be Able to Do Everything Through Online Platforms? (ReadWrite)

Online platforms continue to change the way the world works, yet people continue to doubt the extent of these platforms’ power to disrupt. By now, the question should not be whet... More

Will 2020 be the Year When Programmatic Grows Up? (The Drum)

The programmatic industry has already witnessed a major shift, as mobile has come to dominate browsing habits and the lines between brand information and consumer continue to blur.... More

Adobe Adds LiveRamp Matches to Advanced TV Advertising (B&C)

LiveRamp and Adobe have made a deal integrating LiveRamp’s IdentityLink across Adobe’s Advertising Manager, enabling addressable TV advertising using first or third party data.... More

How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Sales (Raconteur)

Of all corporate functions, sales by its very nature is surely the most people-focused. While it may no longer involve quite as much face-to-face interaction as it once did, sellin... More

Smart City Spending to Hit $158B by 2022 (IT Pro)

Smart city initiatives will attract huge amounts of investment this year, IDC estimates, with the value spent on such schemes topping $158 billion by 2022. Visual surveillance, adv... More

The 4 Hottest Tech Trends That are Transforming the World in 2018 (ZDNet)

No. 1 Artificial intelligence: The biggest problem with AI today isn't that it's too smart. In fact, it's too rudimentary to be much use in many cases. One of the dirty little secr... More

AI’s Next Great Challenge: Understanding the Nuances of Language (HBR)

Language is a uniquely human capability and the manifestation of our intelligence. But through AI — specifically natural language processing (NLP) — we are providing machines w... More

IBM Executive: Big Banks Like Deutsche Choose IBM to Run Their Blockchain for 3 Reasons (CNBC)

The key to IBM's robust blockchain business stems from three guarantees the sprawling technology company can make to its clients, SVP of IBM Global Markets Martin Schroeter said We... More

How IBM Created the Optimal Fan Experience at Mercedes-Benz Stadium (SportsPro)

Fan engagement is literally embedded into the new home of the Atlanta Falcons thanks to the venue’s technology partnership with IBM. The IT solutions company’s global chief tec... More

Amazon AI Predicts Users’ Musical Tastes Based on Playback Duration (VentureBeat)

AI engineers at Amazon have developed a novel way to learn users’ musical tastes and affinities — by using song playback duration as an “implicit recommendation system.” Di... More

How Blockchain Will Underpin the New Trust Economy (Tech World)

Over the next two years, enterprises are expected to ramp up their efforts to test blockchain technology as part of a new method of establishing trust in a digital economy. New res... More

How Smart Speakers are Changing the Way We Listen (Pitchfork)

Almost four years after the Echo and Alexa’s rather inauspicious debut—“The whole thing is a tad baffling, but also intriguing,” wrote TechCrunch at the time—smart speake... More

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