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Telcos and banks struggle with delivering a good customer experience despite being competitive markets. Michael Porter’s competition analysis model could explain why. I was in Italy and needed mobile data, as I was without a broadband connection. I bought three SIM cards, never got exactly what was promised and one sales person even refused to […]
The Target data breach of 2013 also led to the resignation of longtime CEO Gregg Steinhafel and hurt the company’s sales and profits. If you have ever wondered what the real cost of a data breach is, well now you know. Target corp will pay $18.5 million to 47 states, including California, and the District […]
Pressure to employ capital is the biggest risk. SoftBank has announced that the first round of its $100bn Vision fund has closed with $93bn in committed capital but the problem now is going to be how to quickly put this huge amount of money to work. At $93bn, the SoftBank Vision Fund ranks as the third […]
The rise of unlimited mobile data plans and intense price competition, push US Mobile data revenues into the red. For the first time in 17 years, carriers’ quarterly revenue from US mobile data plans declined from the previous year, wireless market analyst Chetan Sharma noted in his report on results from the first three months […]
According to a joint survey by SWIFT and Dow Jones, 54% of compliance execs are to increase RegTech spending as geopolitical risks heighten. An annual joint survey of more than 500 compliance and anti-money laundering professionals by SWIFT and Dow Jones has found that 75% of respondents believe the current geopolitical landscape presents new risks […]
Google held its I/O annual developer conference last week, and in its opening day keynote, it highlighted the features and improvements that it is making to its ecosystem to keep users engaged while gathering and categorizing as much data as it can. Artificial intelligence headlined the event with Google’s leading expertise now being implemented in […]
You can’t say that London isn’t a fintech powerhouse and epicentre of the revolution that is forging a new financial services industry in the white heat of old technology. Wait, what? “The UK is to roll out an image-based cheque clearing system in October that will slash processing times from six ‘weekdays’ to one day” […]
Over the years I’ve tried a number of different Apple headphones with my iPhones, both in ear and on ear. I’ve always struggled to find a set that are comfortable, so presumably I have strange ears! However when I eventually managed to get hold of some AirPods I realised I’d found something that I actually […]
Security executives are under increasing pressure to keep sensitive networks, systems and data safe from threats which are rapidly increasing in both frequency as well as complexity. It’s no surprise, then, that CSOs and CISOs often find themselves in the hot seat when it comes to the topic of cyber security. Their roles are changing along […]
The US Federal Communications Commission has voted to overturn the previous Obama-era FCC Net Neutrality rules. The Federal Communications Commission has officially begun to undo Obama-era regulations on Internet service providers. The FCC Net Neutrality rules, passed in 2015, had placed cable and telecom companies under the strictest-ever oversight of the agency. In a 2-1 […]
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