Tech giants

Growing up in the late '80s - early '90s was an exciting time when household Computing was becoming the new trend as Personal computers became smaller & cheaper with intuitive graphical interfaces and added...

It is not easy to imagine a technology that will receive as much publicity as the blockchain did last year but there’s little doubt that other new and innovative technologies will make even greater...

Another week gone by, another data debacle from Facebook. This time, it was about its sharing of user's private messaging data with tech giants such as Netflix, Spotify, etc. A couple of months back, it...

Compared to the SARS outbreak 17 years ago, the Covid-19 outbreak is more severe in multiple ways, such as longer incubation time with limited or no symptoms, more contagious, multiple ways of infection. As progress...

As the diffusion of connected devices proceeds, with the decentralization of the network, with the use of new predictive technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, the need and usefulness of using the...

While there have been occasions where customers have had trust issues with Amazon’s Alexa, virtual assistants like that one (and others) continue to feel the love. There was a 78 percent increase in the...

Companies are constantly reinventing themselves to gain or maintain competitive advantage and market share. This is nothing new. What is new is the increasing use of the term Agile in business management to describe fast-paced companies...

Innovation & Technological superiority have become the central themes of International influence and there is no better depiction of this than in the current tariff war between U.S & China which has converted into...

Twitter comes in a respectable second place amongst social media firms with a very respectable 336 million worldwide active users (67 million in the United States) falling behind only Facebook, which tops the charts at 2.27 billion (242...

If you are a C-level executive, how do you steer your organization through a voyage of digital transformation? If you are an investor, how do you identify the right company in which to invest?...

To build a successful startup, you need 3T's: TAM, Team, and Timing.  This newsletter is about Timing - more specifically, the B2B tech trends (because I'm not a B2C person) that I'm predicting are...

Looking back at the market cap of some of the largest companies in the World in the past 20 years, one can see how the underlying macroeconomic theme has evolved. This theme is driven...

Intro: From Super-Elixer to Dangerous Dark Art Big Tech, which is always now: AI-fueled Big Tech, has made shopping, searching, connecting to friends on your preferred platforms astonishingly easy. Which is why the masses, including...

Amazon has changed the world for retail. But has it ever occurred to you that one day it might fail? In 1893, Richard Sears had the idea to create a brand new departmental store called...

Technology Disruption will decimate Congress piece by piece The Congress of the United States of America called 4 CEOs of big tech companies to perform a circus on national TV. Jeff Bezos from Amazon. Tim Cook from Apple....

No doubt about that Cloud computing is leading in recent years the innovation in the tech industry. From the high-powered new infrastructure and more usage of the open-source options, companies are using these available...

Lessons from Google, Microsoft, and the best tech companies Last week I was invited by KJR, a strategic IT advisory firm, to speak on their panel at Pause Fest on ‘The risk is real: uncovering...

Online shopping continues to grow as a percentage of overall sales and each major retailer and platform is looking for ways to stand out. The main focus for differentiation right now appears to be...

It’s not exactly controversial to declare 2018 as a disastrous year for cryptocurrencies. With last year’s spectacular boom now a fading memory, the ongoing bear market has drained investor interest in tokenized projects, while user...

Gone are the days when computers used to be bulky, expensive & difficult to operate. As technology progressed, the machines became smaller, smarter & cheaper - So cheap that you can get a Raspberry...