Search Results for: Internet of Things
First Global Fintech Fund for the Underserved
March 6th, 2017
The Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund, managed by Quona Capital, invests in companies that innovate to expand access to financial services to underserved consumers and businesses in emerging markets Three billion people around the world are underserved by the financial ...
Visa to Launch First Everywhere Initiative in Europe
February 28th, 2017
Today, Visa announced that the Everywhere Initiative, an innovation program designed to encourage the development of the “next big thing” in payments, will expand into Europe. Entrants in Visa’s first-ever European Everywhere Initiative will have the opportunity to compete ...
IBM and Visa turn automobiles, appliances and all other connected devices into potential Points of Sale
February 17th, 2017
IBM Watson IoT to Provide Access to as Many as 20 Billion Devices for Visa in the Next Five Years Companies Share Vision for Commerce Based IoT at First Ever IBM “Genius of Things” Summit IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Visa ...
Society report: solicitors ready for ‘automation revolution’
January 25th, 2017
Solicitors agree that legal business is brimming with innovators – but most are content for others to go first before deploying new technology. Yet as the ‘pyramid law firm of the past’ recedes into history, practitioners who fail to ...
Cisco to acquire AppDynamics for $3.7 billion
January 25th, 2017
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced today its intent to acquire AppDynamics, Inc., a privately held application intelligence software company based in San Francisco. AppDynamics’s cloud application and business monitoring platform enables the world’s largest companies to improve application and business ...
Deloitte Global 2017 TMT Predictions
January 14th, 2017
Over 300 million smartphones to have built in machine learning capabilities in 2017 By 2022 autonomous braking will help to reduce fatalities from motor accidents by 16 percent (6,000) in the US alone IT-as-a-Service expected to become nearly a ...
Spains first Fintech incubator and accelerator wants to attract international companies
December 19th, 2016
Spains first Fintech incubator and accelerator wants to attract talents and start-ups from Europe and Latin America. The program includes a 16 weeks incubation in Spain and continues to use a collaborative approachas it does not require any stake ...
Microsoft and AMIS announce Asia’s first blockchain consortium
December 14th, 2016
Pilot blockchain project developed on Microsoft Azure aims to accelerate Taiwan’s fintech sector Financial technology (Fintech) is transforming the financial services industry and a variety of innovations, including blockchain technology, have revolutionized the banking sector for the past year. ...
Blockchain applied for the first time in a global transaction
October 24th, 2016
Blockchain, the technology behind digital currency bitcoin and now being used to simplify secure financial transactions, has been applied for the first time in a deal facilitated by an Australian bank to sell cotton to China. The Commonwealth Bank ...
Saudi Arabia, SoftBank aim to be world’s No. 1 tech investor with $100 billion fund
October 14th, 2016
Saudi Arabia and Japan’s SoftBank Group (9984.T) will create a technology investment fund that could grow as large as $100 billion, making it one of the world’s largest private equity investors and a potential kingpin in the industry. The ...
