Walmart announced its plan to acquire startup Eloquii for $100M. Eloquii is one of several emerging direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands working to modernize the $21B plus-sized clothing market. More than half of U.S. women aged 18-65 wear a size 14 or larger, the Eloquii acquisition would seem to be a good fit...

Ant Financial was initially launched to support online payments. Today, it’s ecosystem covers financial services, from wealth management and insurance to lending and credit scores. Ant counts nearly 600M Alipay users, plus 110M+ Alipay partners across 15 countries — is much bigger than payments alone. 100M+ users use all 5 of Ant’s key functions, meaning...

Heard about 5G? The next generation of wireless networks, promises to deliver faster data speeds and more reliable services for mobile users. With 5G, users will be able to download a high-definition film in under a second, which today would normally take 10 minutes on 4G LTE. As you would understand,...

Reddit, the popular forum was hacked. The hacker was able to access an old database backup and a newer set of “email digests’. The backup file contained usernames, hashed and salted passwords, email addresses and private messages before 2008. The widely used SMS for two factor authentication which believed to be...

If you are in public sector or non-for-profit organisation, GovInnovate would be of your interest. GovInnovate is a forum for the public sector to achieve excellence in service design, digital delivery and security. GovInnovate facilitates engaged, educated conversation on the challenges and opportunities in delivering a more collaborative, participatory and responsive...

21st Century education requires many skills and abilities for success. Many educators, institutes and schools are increasingly focusing on the skills required for students to master in preparation for success in a rapidly changing digital world. Today, students, after they graduated from school, are more likely to change career jobs, hence they...

Spotify is a great way to share your love of music with people all over the world. It is launched on 7 October 2008, is available in 65 regions.Spotify went public in April this year, so how Spotify grew from a startup into a public company? Let's have a look on...

A few big technology companies such as Google, Apple and Mercedes-Benz are researching and building driverless vehicles. It is certain at some stage the driverless vehicles will be widely used globally. CB Insight's research outlines the following industries could potentially be impacted Insurance: It is believed that driverless cars will make...

Business analytics is concerned with the fast-growing areas of online analytics, customer analytics, and business intelligence. It involves extracting, summarising and applying information from rich data sets readily available in today's business environment to enable better decision making based on quantitative information and models. What are the top 10 trends in...

Customer service relates to the service you and your staff provide before, during and after a purchase. It's how you interact with your customers. Improving your customer service skills can lead to greater customer satisfaction and experience. How to provide good customer experience? You need to know know what your customers consider to...

For the first time, Microsoft Inspire and Microsoft Ready, the annual Microsoft sales, marketing, and technical fiscal kick-off, are going to be held in the same city during the same week. This co-location will create multiple opportunities for partners and field teams to connect, learn, and collaborate on solutions that will...

There are many decisions you make for your business, be it technical decisions for performance, for simplicity, or even for "coolness." And sometimes, you need to make decisions based on costs. This talk shares considerations and shows you how to accomplish the most common cloud tasks as cost-effectively as possible. If...

A breach in HR recruitment software provider PageUp has led to the potential compromise of the personal details of thousands of Australians. According to ABC news, PageUp, which boasts 2 million active users across 190 countries, posted a statement from chief executive Karen Cariss on its website, saying it had...

Consumers today have more places and ways to shop. If you have an e-commerce business, and you want online shoppers to buy from you, you need to make the shopping experience pleasant and easy. Since late 1990s from shipping times to payment methods and checkout processes, almost every aspect of the...

User experience (UX) matters. When a website has a better UX design, it enhancs user satisfaction. Better UX design improves the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the user and a product or service. The video takes you through the process to design more effective landing pages by...

A smart speaker is a type of wireless speaker and voice command device with an integrated virtual assistant that offers activation of connected devices such as PCs, TVs and other smart devices. Amazon, Google and Apple, three of the largest tech companies in the world have been racing the game. Based...

According to Newzoo's forecast, gamers across the globe will spend $137.9 billion on games in 2018. Mobile gaming will continue to be the largest segment. In total, mobile revenues will grow +25.5% year on year to reach $70.3 billion. Smartphones will account for 80% of this, or $56.4 billion in 2018,...

The 2018 Global SAFe Summit is where the SAFe community gathers to learn best practices, network with each other, connect with thought leaders and influencers in the industry, and see first-hand how enterprises are leveraging SAFe to continuously deliver value to the customer. The 2018 Global SAFe Summit will take place...

Airbnb tries to provide you "Unique homes and experiences all over the world". People from all over the world list their their properties on the platform. Each listing allows hosts to promote properties through titles, descriptions, photos with captions. A profile about your host is included as well as previous guests...

Internet of Things (IoT) is a set of technologies working together to have connected network and view of objects. There is not yet a clear definition of the scope of IoT, the concept and technology are still evolving. One workable view is that IoT is the network of physical devices, home...