By Mikel Lindsaar, CEO and Founder of StoreConnect In the 16th Century, Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the long-held view that the Earth was the center of the universe. He knew he would get opposition from scientists and religious scholars, so he waited until the year of his death to publish. It would still take more than a century […]
By Dr. Tim Wagner, Co-founder and CEO of Vendia Enterprise leaders today are facing more data-related challenges than ever before. An airline can’t offer passengers the best itineraries at the best price without access to the latest information from all sales channels. Car manufacturers struggle to ship cars quickly and cost effectively when they can’t […]
Cryptocurrencies exploded in 2021 as mainstream companies including Tesla and Square entered the bitcoin arena. With online tools available for free or a minimal charge that make trading cryptocurrencies accessible to everyday people, many new traders also entered the market over the past year. Investing in cryptocurrency tends to trend younger. A recent Motley Fool […]
One of the biggest assets in any industry, business, or enterprise is information. The information can be structured or unstructured forms in paper documents. The documents often carry sensitive corporate ownership, policies, transactional, employee, decisions, and evaluation information. And since information is a huge business asset, document management becomes a critical yet essential business tool. […]
Blockchain is a new technology that is already having a huge impact on business. In essence, it is a new kind of database that stores data in a unique way. It collates data in groups, known as blocks. Each block has a certain amount of storage capacity, and once this limit is reached, a new […]
What is Bitcoin, and how does it work? Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency in the world. It was created at the beginning of 2009 by an anonymous person called Satoshi Nakamoto. Like most digital currencies, Bitcoin is not issued by a central authority. Therefore, it is immune to government manipulation and is completely independent of […]
The world of cryptocurrencies is a very volatile and unpredictable one. After the price of Bitcoin (BTC) shot up to nearly $20,000 in 2017, more people than ever have shifted their focus towards cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology as viable investment options. After a significant market correction, which has seen the worth of one Bitcoin drop […]
It will sound crazy to some but the government’s increasing interest in blockchain technology means that regulated blockchain is coming, whether you like it or not. For nearly a decade, blockchain has remained the fascination of a small niche of financial and technology enthusiasts who, for the most part, reject any involvement by the […]
PwC estimates that AI will add $15.7 trillion to the world economy by 2030. IBM predicts that blockchain technology’s contribution will have reached $3.1 trillion by then. Clearly, both technologies have the potential to be extremely valuable. Even more intriguing is their convergence. Today, AI is still a limited technology that can be said to […]
There are startups marketing themselves as blockchain innovators, and there are established enterprises trying to innovate with blockchain. Vic Pascucci has a stock response to most of them: “Just use an f***n VPN.” The managing director of venture capital firm Lightbank was positioned as the resident contrarian at the recent Voice of Blockchain conference in […]
Supply chain processes rarely make for prime-time TV viewing, but a new commercial from IBM tells a story that connects blockchain and coffee to show what it can bring to accurate inventory tracking. In a clip called “Smart Supply Chain,” Big Blue takes viewers on a whirlwind tour of single-origin Kenyon coffee from its original […]
As enterprises are quickly learning, blockchain is not only about currency. Ever since the Ethereum platform, created three years ago, developers have been testing it by building decentralized applications (Dapps) that are different from their centralized counterparts – centralized applications. ‘D’ for Decentralization If you are wondering why Dapps have become such an interesting prospect […]
Blockchain will help clean up and validate the data used in artificial intelligence applications, make predictive capabilities more accessible and allow individual people to treat their data as a commodity, experts told the AiDecentralized conference. Orgnaized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and held in Toronto on Tuesday, AiDecentralized brought together researchers and practitioners […]
Online ad fraud is a big problem because it wastes the money of the advertisers. B2B marketers need to remain aware of the new technologies that are of great help to restrict the growing menace of ad fraud. Ad Fraud has costed advertisers a loss of around $18 billion in 2018 that represents around 9% […]
Despite the unanswered legal and regulatory questions, enterprises that create or participate in a private blockchain may have a chance to overcome the inefficient, expensive and vulnerable ways they exchange information and facilitate transactions today, speakers told the Conference Board of Canada’s first-ever summit on distributed ledger technology. While a growing number of business professionals […]
Fision may soon build upon its track record of putting marketing and sales teams on the same page by obtaining a provisional patent for using blockchain to exchange critical business information. Based in Minneapolis, Fision Corp. offers a cloud-based sales enablement tool that manages digital assets like marketing materials as they are distributed to sales […]
Marketing and sales teams might cringe at the thought of asking their IT department to help them with a blockchain project today, but a startup called Crowd Machine is promising an easy way to create decentralized applications without any technical skills. Based in San Jose, Calif., Crowd Machine has set up a system whereby everyday […]
As more organizations explore the potential of blockchain to facilitate all manner of transactions, an Australian startup called Quixxi is offering tools to make the creation of decentralized applications easier, as well as a marketplace where they can get rewarded with a proprietary cryptocurrency for their contributions. Quixxi started out in more traditional areas of […]
Even if blockchain technology still must overcome some challenges there is a clear change in attitudes and initiatives regarding the technology behind cryptocurrencies. Moreover, the use cases and spending patterns become clearer and show how blockchain is not just converging with the Internet of Things (IoT) but also with the foundations of a digital economy […]
In 1998, the marketing department at IBM spent a reported $40 million on an advertising campaign aimed at convincing businesses to do something that seems obvious today: offer e-commerce alongside traditional ways of buying and selling. Though they didn’t use the term “business transformation,” all those e-business commercials may have marked the beginning of the […]
