Amazon has thrown down the gauntlet to the classic retail trade with its “Just Walk Out” high-street stores. This scared traditional traders but, while China is mobilizing billions to compete, Europe is relying on its culture of regionally fissured markets that has grown over centuries. It is a weakness and a strength at the same time.
Smartphones, automation, and artificial intelligence are helping revolutionize how banks deliver services, but these technologies may also prove the undoing of the traditional players. Will today’s big banks retain market dominance, or will upstarts and apps fragment the banking sector?
The penetration of semiconductor components classified as “IoT” is expected to grow from 7% in 2019 to 12% by 2025, IoT Analytics, a leading provider of market insights and competitive intelligence for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4., claims in a new report.
The world’s largest automotive supplier will be working with one of the world’s largest tech companies in the future: Bosch and Microsoft have agreed to cooperate on software development.
Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile has reached an agreement with U.S.-based Ligado Networks to help it design a private 5G network that uses Rakuten’s customizable platform.
The planned takeover of ARM by Nvidia is currently being examined internationally by antitrust authorities. Now several US tech companies have filed complaints.
“Telia Global IoT Connectivity” is the name of a new solution from Swedish telecom-provider Telia that is available immediately.
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