According to new insights on global retail payment trends from FIS, a global leader in financial technology, eWallets are now the preferred way for Hong Kong consumers to pay for goods online.

Microsoft announced the global debut of a retail solution that empowers consumers to make informed purchase decisions amidst the myriad of options available online and offline.

The solution, called Microsoft Synchronized Shopping, is one expression of Microsoft’s broader retail reimagined strategy aimed at simplifying the consumer journey by leveraging intelligent cloud technology.

According to preliminary figures in the IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone shipments in China stood at 98 million units in the second quarter of 2019, down 6% from the same period last year. The industry outlook, however, turns out to be much better than expected, not only because the forecasted 9% contraction didn’t occur.

Wi-Fi is the critical foundation of the Connected Home but also a common source of customer frustration. This is an issue that service providers need to tackle head on if they are to grow revenues, reduce churn and prepare themselves for enormous opportunities that lie ahead.

Marketing is highly digital nowadays and has its hands full with data and measurable target group reactions. The challenge the industry faces, however, is to channel the flood of data, to filter out the essentials, and to draw the right conclusions from them. That’s why systems and algorithms are needed.

Zendesk. announced the launch of Gather, a powerful new product that enables companies to provide trusted and transparent support to customers through online community forums. Gather creates a space where customers can engage with each other and company experts to offer guidance and insight beyond what a single customer support agent might be able to handle.

Measuring and optimization are the nuts and bolts in digital marketing since precision and deep understanding of how to compare and synchronize different data sources are key to the quality of the results and the success of campaigns. If marketers work consistently on a data-driven basis and align all measurements with the needs of the customers, more turnover with the same budget or budget savings can be most certainly achieved while maintaining the same turnover.  Considering the following prerequisites definitely helps:

While artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the top technologies that will change the Singaporean business landscape in the next three years, most organizations in Singapore are still fearful of AI. Are we really talking about Singapore, which comes in third in the World Economic Forum’s list of the most innovative cities in the world?

Do you know just how much new data information we’re creating? According to IDC forecasts exponentially more and more, growing to 163 zettabytes by 2025. And not only does IDC predict the frantic growth of data generation, it estimates that one-fifth of all this data will be critical if not hypercritical to our daily lives.

Top tech companies who are active in China are set to attend a one-day conference in Beijing, which focusses on the use of Neural Machine Technology (NMT) in the globalization process of Chinese companies. The conference will take place on September 11th and is organized by One Hour Translation (OHT), an online platform which provides translations in more than 100 languages and 3,000 language pairs.

Today, every customer is leaving behind vast amounts of data while shopping online, providing marketers with numerous indications of their personality, their preferences and their purchase intentions. Each point of contact with an individual customer can be tracked across channels and evaluated according to the role it played in the purchase decision process.

With Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), data scientists can link cross-channel customer data, helping entire companies - including marketers - achieve the comprehensive customer understanding needed to deliver relevant and engaging experiences.

The leading Japanese network provider Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) has launched an eSIM service for the mobile Internet. The AirOn+ platform from G+D Mobile Security is enabling eSIM management.

G+D Mobile Security is a global mobile security technology company headquartered in Munich, Germany and part of the Giesecke+Devrient group. G+D Mobile Security manages and secures billions of digital identities throughout their entire life cycle. To no surprise their products and solutions are used by commercial banks, mobile network operators, car and mobile device manufacturers, business enterprises, transit authorities and health insurances every day to secure payment, communication and device-to-device interaction.

MediaMath, acclaimed independent advertising technology company for brands, pledged to clean up the digital media supply chain by committing to a 100% accountable and addressable supply chain by the end of 2020.