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Digital platforms and technologies are changing the landscape of the interior design industry
The pervasive nature of modern technology has found its way into the interior design industry in unexpected and exciting ways. New digital platforms have been born out of niches that mirror the recent demands of the consumer (who has developed a penchant for vintage design pieces) alongside pressures from the wider industry to abolish waste …
The Effect of Digital Technology in the Music Industry
Nowadays, teenagers are living constantly surrounded by technology even if the younger generation may not see it, technology has had an impact on the world as a whole. The widespread use of digital technology in the music industry has allowed consumers to reproduce digital versions of copyrighted song inexpensively with the help of many software …
Digital technology will strengthen America’s biggest retail banks
BY ALMOST ANY measure, America’s biggest banks are behemoths. JPMorgan Chase’s balance-sheet weighs in at $2.7trn, Bank of America’s (BofA) at $2.4trn. Citigroup tips the scales at almost $2trn and Wells Fargo at $1.9trn. Their combined market value is nearly $1trn. Last year they raked in over $100bn after tax. Yet by one gauge, the …
How digital technology can create unhealthy inequalities
Advances in medical care delivery are often least accessible to the poor and uneducated, say Asha George, Amnesty LeFevre, and Rajani Ved DIGITAL technology is revolutionising our lives. Mobile devices monitor our movements, marketing algorithms guide our consumption, and social media shape our worldviews and politics. The risks include an increase in societal inequalities, particularly …
The ‘AI turn’ for digital health: A futuristic view
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers The unprecedented implications of digital health innovations, being co-produced by the mainstreaming and integration of artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and cyber-physical systems (CPS) in healthcare, are examined in a new technology horizon-scanning article. This digital transformation of healthcare is facilitated by the rapid rise in …
Technology Decisions to Avoid Digital Transformation Exhaustion
Technology Decisions to Avoid Digital Transformation Exhaustion Getty Images Organizational exhaustion is the deadliest enemy of companies undertaking digital transformation. It may be hard to believe, but one reason this happens is that companies do a lot of work to prepare for an unknown objective. Therefore, they effectively dissipate their commitment, resources, money and energy …
G20 to move ahead with plans for digital tax on world’s tech giants
The G20 is pushing ahead with plans to close international loopholes used by tech giants to lower their tax bills. In a draft communique obtained by Reuters, the group said that it endorses the “ambitious” two-pillar approach to a so-called digital tax, and that it will “redouble [its] efforts for a consensus-based solution with a …
G20 agrees to push ahead with digital tax: communique
FUKUOKA, Japan (Reuters) – Group of 20 finance ministers agreed on Saturday to compile common rules to close loopholes used by global tech giants such as Facebook to reduce their corporate taxes, a copy of the bloc’s draft communique obtained by Reuters showed. US Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin (R, on podium) delivers a speech …
