5 Books That Are Required Reading at Harvard Business School Getting an MBA at Harvard will currently cost you two years of your life and a little over $150,000. That’s a little rich for a lot of folks. But thankfully, while there’s no way to replicate the connections you’d get from actually attending, there are…
Virtual and Augmented Reality market to boom to $170 billion by 2022 As the virtual and Augmented Reality markets continue to soar, with the new technology drawing increasing interest across the entertainment world, the combined value of the sector is set to smash through the $170 billion barrier. The growth is not only fuelled…
Get started with automated metadata extraction using the AWS Media Analysis Solution You can easily get started extracting meaningful metadata from your media files by using the Media Analysis Solution on AWS. The Media Analysis Solution provides AWS CloudFormation templates that you can use to start extracting meaningful metadata from your media files within minutes. With…
How to share data without revealing it: The Google/Mastercard encryption magic Earlier this month, Bloomberg reported that “Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales”. In the agreement, Mastercard is sharing transaction data with Google, allowing Google to estimate the conversion of online ads to brick-and-mortar sales. Prior to the deal, Google…
Feel the Future 2.0 The 2nd trade fair for innovative digital solutions will feature the upgraded contents of the participating exhibitors and expert lecturers. Its unified goal—to live the future and not remain just observers—will bring together over a thousand tech enthusiasts, creators and visionaries of the future in one space. Find out more at…
All ‘Big Four’ Auditors to Trial Blockchain Platform for Financial Reporting The world’s four biggest auditing firms – Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC – are joining a group of 20 banks in Taiwan to trial a blockchain service for auditing public companies’ interim financial reports. According to a local news report on Thursday, the blockchain trial…
The Rise of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) Data has taken on a central role in our daily lives, permeating nearly every activity in the business and public sectors. It’s now considered an essential piece of the puzzle for any serious organization, enabling everything from game-changing insights to the birth of entire new technologies…
SHIFTING THE FOCUS: How to Put People at the Center of Performance Reviews Let’s talk about performance reviews. They’re a hotly contested topic amongst managers, employees, and executives alike—and it’s up to Learning & Development (L&D) and HR professionals to make them successful. Unfortunately, today’s performance review is widely unpopular. But the performance review is…
Blockchain for healthcare – closer than we think? Blockchain holds big potential for overcoming issues of trust and ironing out technology wrinkles in the sharing of clinical and financial data in healthcare. While that is becoming increasingly widely discussed, it’s also true that the distributed digital ledger technology is still somewhat shrouded in mystery and…
CONSENSUS 2018 CoinDesk is proud to present our 4th annual blockchain technology summit, May 14-16, 2018 at the New York Hilton Midtown. Consensus 2018 will feature 250+ speakers and 4,000+ attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the…
