The following are my top ten Fintech predictions for the coming year. While 2016 has been a momentous period in Fintech innovation there is more to come. 10 – Sensors Internet of Things (IoT), Wearables, Smart Home and Connected Car will bring massive change to the Fintech industry forever. From Home Improvement Financing enabled by […]
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The “CES Unveiled” event at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center has showcased a host of new wearables and hearables along with home appliances and robots. They are all very app-intensive, connected to the Internet, and many are already programmed to get smarter with built-in artificial intelligence that will track, learn and recognise a user’s speech,
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Stock Photo: ORLANDO, FL – December 28, 2016: Amazon Echo, the voice recognition streaming device from Amazon. Currently available in two colors, black and white for a list price of $179.99. (George W. Bailey / Shutterstock.com) Amazon’s Alexa was so popular that sales increased by 900%. In fact, the product was so well-liked among holiday
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When it comes to the total number of PCs and Smartphones shipped 2014-2016 neither Microsoft nor Apple have anything to crow about, with both seeing declines over the last three years. Devices running a Microsoft OS in particular have seen steep declines over the last 5 years, with 350 million Windows PCs being sold in
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The Consumer Electronics Show is the biggest trade show in the Western Hemisphere. If you somehow missed the show this past week—you’re so lucky! CES a staggeringly huge, crowded, noisy, sensory-overload sort of show. About 3,900 booths fill enough floor space for 35 football fields. Trying to take it all in gets exhausting and expensive.
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But if you give something a voice, it takes on life. Give it a name and it becomes real. That is the lesson I learned at CES 2017 in Las Vegas this week. Amazon has a voice with a name—Alexa—and it was everywhere. Because of Alexa, the Internet of Things has become real. Over the
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(Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Carnival Corporation plans to make guests wear “smart medallions” to record their every whim. The medallions can be carried in your pocket or worn as jewelry and will track
Is Intel Stock a Bet for the Future? At first glance, dividends seem to be what makes Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) stock special. Indeed, when most technology companies have to forgo a current payout in order to invest for the future, Intel stock’s 2.86% dividend yield stands out. But that’s not the only reason for investors
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As cybercrime and other online disruptions soared in 2016, it was another record-breaking year for global cybersecurity bloggers. The public- and private-sector topics covered ranged from cyberterrorism to cloud computing trends and from hacked systems to securing the Internet of Things (IoT). Meanwhile, Lohrmann on Cybersecurity & Infrastructure saw another dramatic increase in readership and
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LG Electronics’ newly-appointed CEO Jo Seong-jin said Sunday that the South Korean electronics maker will finalize its decision on setting up its first home appliance manufacturing plant in the US within the first half of this year. “We’ve been considering the possibility of building a new plant in the US for a long time,” Jo
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