Recent years, from payments to wealth management, from peer-to-peer lending to crowdfunding, “fintech” firms are growing rapidly. These “fintech” firms which are familiar to the public include Lending Club, OnDeck, Venmo, Rate Setter and SocietyOne. Lending Club alone, funded about $2 billion loans last quarter, and their lending to-date is more...
Fintech (financial technology) comprises a wide range of technologies that are disrupting traditional financial services, including mobile payments, money transfers, loans, fundraising, and asset management. How Fintech is impacting you? If you are starting a business and need fund to operate, you would go to your bank to ask for a...
Unicorns born in China are on the Rise. CBinsight publishes a research brief to show where did those private companies worth more than $1 billion came from. There are 214 unicorn startups, 127 were born in US, 59 from China, 12 from UK, 9 from India and 8 from Germany. Those ones...
If you are running a startup, you would want to know, like many others, why startups fail. The research company CB Insights studied many cases and highlighted the top 20 reasons which you could learn from. #20 – Failure to pivot when necessary. Not pivoting away or quickly enough from a...
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 report of Retail Tech 100 winners was compiled by CB Insights includes private, active business-to-business (B2B) retail tech companies from 21 countries across 13 overarching categories. These companies were selected out of nearly 15,000 applicants and nominees based on metrics including patent activity, business relations, investor profiles, news sentiment analysis, proprietary...
Drones have gained popularity in recent years, they are commercially available and viable, they have been applied to many tasks in various industries. They help companies cut costs, save time, and improve safety Here are big companies who are using drone technology today. Retail 1. Amazon: Amazon has been developing its...
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...
More than 200,000 computers across 150 countries have been affected by a large-scale cyberattack in the last few days. The ransomware WannaCry encrypts information on computers and asks users to pay $300 in exchange for decryption. According to Microsoft, starting first in the United Kingdom and Spain, the malicious software quickly...
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 noticed...
You may have heard of the buzz word ‘Agile’ many times such as ‘we need to be agile in software development’ and ‘need to be an agile organisation’. What is Agile exactly? Agile is a concept. Agile methods are focused on quick responses to change and continuous development. Agile Software Development...
Scrum is an Agile framework for delivery projects. Scrum has been extensively employed by software development projects, but it also works well for any other complex work. The Scrum framework is simple and easy to understand, you can learning it in 10 mins by watch the following video by an agile...
Collaboration is happening in our lives daily. In the old days, we interact with each other face to face or talk to each other on the phone. Later, we moved to using emails. Emails can be over used without people realising it. Do you see at work that people hit ‘reply...
JIRA is an agile project management tool that supports agile methodology, be it scrum, kanban, or your favourite style. In a high level, you can plan, track, and manage all your agile projects from a single tool. For software development projects, you can create user stories, estimate those stories for a...
Confluence is an app in which team members can discuss work, record decisions, comment on documents. It gives every team, project, or department its own space to create the things they need, whether it's meeting notes, product requirements, file lists, or project plans, you can get it done in Confluence. Confluence integrates...
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...
In this animated white-board session, VMware Accelerate Advisory Services director Reg Lo will walk you through two concepts that are key to increasing the speed of IT: 1) How to use DevOps to deliver more applications faster, and 2) How to quickly deliver more PaaS services to support development. Source: VMware,...
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...
Statista conducted a consumer survey on e-Commerce and Retail to find out the secret behind a good newsletter. The key findings would be useful if you are running a business and sending newsletters to your users. Older onliners see newsletters more critical and have higher expectations of the contentOnly 13 percent...
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...
Interbrand's estimation of the latest technology brand value have Apple sitting firmly at the top, with a value of over 184 billion US dollars. Google sits at the second spot, with a value of $141 billion US dollars. Facebook has a big jump of 48%, Amazon jumped 29% and Adobe jumped...
