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Wirate: use the cloud to evaluate the chances of your startup succeeding

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Startup of the Week We are constantly profiling innovative Startups with great ideas for the digital economy.  Each week, we are going to present you the ones we find most exciting. We focus on their disruptive ideas, digital vision and business model. Learning early on what customers think about the products and services offered by your company is a decisive factor for success. Companies gain such insights by means of market research and direct feedback from customers. Processing this data often requires, in any case,  resources that aren’t readily available…

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CXOs: Take these steps to reevaluate risk management in 2016

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The move to digital technology creates an immense amount of opportunity for companies in areas like IoT, customer engagement management, and business analytics. It also creates new risks that those companies will have to learn to address— and quickly. Recent Gartner research showed that 77% of survey respondents agreed with the statement: “The digital world is creating new types and levels of risk for our business,” and 65% felt that “Investment in risk management practices is not keeping up with new and higher levels of risk.” “CEOs are right to…

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How we’re putting the Microsoft Cloud to work for the public good

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As Satya Nadella announced today, we’re committed to putting the Microsoft Cloud to work for the public good. That’s why Microsoft Philanthropies, with support from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Business Development, will donate $1 billion in Microsoft cloud services to nonprofits and university researchers over the next three years. Our goal is to support 70,000 nonprofits through this initiative during that time. I wanted to provide some more detail on what we’re doing and the commitments we are making today. Our rationale for today’s announcement is simple. Cloud computing has…

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Google Maps Now Gives Real-Time Traffic Advice With One Tap

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The new Google Maps feature tracks your most frequent destinations, such as home or work, and might suggest leaving ASAP or waiting a bit due to traffic. Google Maps can now give users real-time traffic advice, for example, if it is a good time to head home or to work, or if it would be wise to have a cup of coffee and read for a bit before braving the traffic on nearby roads.The new driving shortcut feature was announced by Brian Ferris, a Google Maps software engineer, in a…

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Skype Translator Now Available to All Windows Users

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Microsoft completes its rollout of Skype Translator for Windows and announces an integration with the Slack team communications platform. For nearly three and a half months, Microsoft has beenrolling out its Skype Translator technology to millions of Windows users. This week, the company crossed the finish line. “This takes Skype one step closer to our mission of empowering people to do more, even across languages,” stated Microsoft in a Jan. 13 announcement on the company’s Website. “We hope that our customers can achieve their goals through relationships that would have previously…

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EMEA Big Data Datacenter Infrastructure Market to Triple by 2019, Reaching $5.4B, Says IDC

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International Data Corporation (IDC) has completed an in-depth market sizing of the EMEA Big Data infrastructure market focusing on servers, storage, and cloud resources used for Big Data–related activities. These include value creation from merging different data sources, various analytics, log files, and metadata that help identify patterns and generate predictions. LONDON, January 13, 2016 — IDC forecasts that Big Data–related server shipments will increase from 6% of all servers shipped in EMEA in 2015 to 16% by 2019, and server values from $1 billion in 2015 to $2.7 billion…

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What the Tech Landscape Will Look Like in 2019

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Expect the number of devices you own to multiply! We are in an era where technological advances are happening at an exponential rate. According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Forecast, in just four years you can expect to see the number of mobile devices skyrocket, non-PC devices to reign supreme, and online video to do a complete takeover of television. Head’s up—maybe it’s time to start carving out some space for those extra devices in your 2019 home-of-the-future. Billions and Billions of Devices!  Jumping from a “meager” 14.2 billion devices…

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Google Wants To Eliminate Password Login

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Google has begun testing a password-free login method that enables users to log in using their smartphones. Google is experimenting with a password-free login method. A new feature promises to let you enter your account with a smartphone and skip the less-secure requirement of typing a password. The idea is that users will begin the login process on the PC, but authorize the login through smartphone notification. It promises a more secure way to access Google accounts without using two-factor authentication. This update comes from a Reddit user who wrote…

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Surviving digital disruption

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What can managers and corporations do to brace their businesses in the face of digital  … … ​​​​​​​Prepare for digital disruption​ Desktop computer manufacturing and sales plummeted as portable devices such as notebooks and tablets came to be. Digital cameras are as good as dead thanks to the ever increasing popularity and quality of mobile phone cameras. If digital is already slaughtering itself, how is your business supposed to survive the digital revolution? Despite it being hard to predict just exactly how and when disruption will hit your industry, there…

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The IT Department as Disruptor

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In today’s technology-centric world, IT departments must evolve from business partners to catalysts for change. They must advise and provide innovative technological solutions for employees and customers – and disrupt how business is done. Technology is the driving force of almost every company in the digital economy. Case in point: in PwC’s most recent CEO Survey, business leaders said they were aware of the increasing need to put technology at the heart of their business. But the rapid pace of technological change remains challenging for many CEOs and C-suite teams.…

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