Snap Inc. took its initial-public-offering road show to London on Monday, looking to persuade potential UK investors to buy up the company's stock, but one London-based analyst remains "neutral" about the company's ability to drive upside beyond its initial price range of $14 to $16 a share.
Atlantic Equities research analyst James Cordwell did not attend the presentation on Monday but spoke with clients who did. (Atlantic Equities is... Posted: 02/27/17 [ Read More... ]
As automation technologies such as machine learning and robotics play an increasingly great role in everyday life, their potential effect on the workplace has, unsurprisingly, become a major focus of research and public concern. The discussion tends toward a Manichean guessing game: which jobs will or won’t be replaced by machines?
In fact, as our research has begun to show, the story is more nuanced. While automation will eliminate very few occupations... Posted: 02/24/17 [ Read More... ]
In 2007, Steve Jobs stepped across the stage at Apple to give the most amazing and revolutionary Keynote speech of his life. He was there to present to the world a device that would create an entire industry by blending the user experience of three different products. A phone, an iPod, and the internet would now all be accessible through a single mobile creation: the iPhone. Posted: 02/23/17 [ Read More... ]
Any company of any size -- whether it’s one employee working out of her basement or a multi-national company balancing millions in revenue -- must consider how digitization is affecting business as we know it. The question is no longer “When do we innovate?” but rather “How do we innovate?” According to Gartner, in the next five years, U.S. CIOs expect their companies’ digital revenues to grow from 16... Posted: 02/22/17 [ Read More... ]
We are living in the digital age – where online shopping rules and midnight Black Friday purchasing is now being conducted primarily from the couch. But behind the scenes of retailers, combining digital services with existing brick and mortar operations isn’t a walk in the park.
According to Gartner’s 2016 Chief Supply Chain Officer survey, 57 percent of CSOs listed the sales shift from physical stores to online retail as one... Posted: 02/21/17 [ Read More... ]
Only a minority of organizations are able to provide a very good user experience (UX), so IT and line-of-business leaders are turning to a number of emerging technologies to improve these interactions, according to a recent survey from UserTesting. The accompanying "2017 UX and User Research Industry Survey Report" predicts that artificial intelligence (AI) will likely have the biggest impact in this area over the next five years.... Posted: 02/17/17 [ Read More... ]
Ecommerce continues to make gains among consumers, with more people buying products online than ever before. Indeed, eMarketer recently predicted that worldwide ecommerce sales would total $1.915 trillion in 2016, with $423.34 billion of that coming from North America. And the company forecast double-digit retail ecommerce growth through 2020.
Here are six ecommerce categories that will fuel that growth:
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If you run a small business, you’re likely seeing a flood of offers for easy-to-get loans–through direct mail, popup adds, even TV ads promising fast money to pay your bills or buy new equipment
You’re not alone. Alternative small business lending has exploded in the last few years as a new industry emerged, referred to as “fintech” (for financial technology).
“It’s been the wild west,” said Karen Gordon Mills, co-author of... Posted: 02/13/17 [ Read More... ]
New research sees Internet of Things (IoT) spending growing by nearly 16% by 2020 driven by hardware investments, primarily by manufacturers.
The Journal reported on the release of the “Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide” by International Data Corp.(IDC).
The IDC report found that IoT spending will reach $1.29 trillion worldwide by 2020, representing a 15.6% compound annual growth rate between 2015 and 2020.
See also: China IoT market worth over $120 billion by... Posted: 02/11/17 [ Read More... ]
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