An Alibaba backed open research think tank (the Luohan Academy) has published a 22-page report which says that AI, mobile internet, e-commerce are not destroying more jobs than they create. Nextbigfuture summarizes the report as there are lots of jobs and businesses being created by the Alibaba, Ebay, Googles and Ubers of the world. People …
Data is now essentially the lifeblood of today’s modern industries. Not only does it provide insights for effective decision-making but it can also be used to predict and influence consumer and user behavior. Companies like Amazon and Netflix, for instance, use big data and analytics to better understand their customers in order to create products …
Google is negligent by not having the software coded mechanisms to prevent or rapidly repair vandalization of search results. People can use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and other means to adjust search results. There are ways that people can manipulate search. This is a matter of concentrating resources and effort beyond to make a competition …
You have owned or briefly thought the novelty talking bass was amusing. You may have interacted with the various versions of the old talking bass by pushing the activation buttons several times to hear what recordings were in that particular talking bass. Now there will be unlimited sounds, recordings and interactions because the talking bass …
1. A 16-year-old South Sudanese girl was sold off for marriage to the highest bidder on Facebook in November. Facebook says it removed the post as soon as it became aware of it, but by then the girl had already been married off. Child marriage is illegal in South Sudan, but the practice remains widespread …
China, UK and other countries take away privacy with massive use of cameras, cellphone, internet browser and credit card monitoring. There are also cameras hidden in street lights and traffic barrels. Getting E-Commerce Deals With Your Friends China has its massive social credit program and technological monitoring of its people. They also have the most …
In 2017, China’s purchase of luxury goods was equal to the USA and Japan combined. By 2024, China luxury goods purchases almost to the level of the USA, Europe and Japan combined. Consumers in China spent $118.39 billion on luxury goods in 2017. In 2017, Americans bought $81.2 billion in luxury goods and Japanese bought …
Mark Mobius, partner and co-founder of Mobius Capital Partners, says China markets are very weak. The yuan weakness and tradewar are killing China shares. This can only be solved by China making big concessions to Trump on trade. If and when the yuan breaks through 7 to the US dollar, then 7.5 is nothing and …
CEO Tim Cook blasted Silicon Valley technology companies and their abuse of user privacy. Tim gave the keynote address at a privacy conference in Brussels Wednesday. Facebook and Google make most of their money from advertising. Cook said * Personal information is being weaponized against us with military efficiency. * Every day, billions of dollars …
E-commerce sales in China was over $1 trillion in 2017. Alibaba paid about $6 billion to take control of China’s top supermarket chain and one of its biggest department-store franchises. A Guangzhou-based startup called BingoBox has built a network of 300 fully automated convenience stores. The free-standing glass boxes, about half the size of a …
Space could represent a new frontier for cloud infrastructure. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle battle for business from companies that are offloading their data center computing and storage needs. Marty Puranik, CEO and Founder of Atlantic.Net, a leading cloud hosting solutions provider interviewed with NextBigFuture. Marty indicated that Amazon’s venture to expand cloud operations …