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Ten Tech News Stories You Should Know About

Latest tech innovations today.   1. McDonald’s forms partnerships with technology agencies to upgrade their ordering technology. Numerous technological developments coming in the future.   2. Google is currently testing a news Chrome tool to mute autoplay videos. An info bubble button will...

Extensive Read: Why Personal Finance Education is Important

Financial education has always been thought to be a reserve for investors or anyone in business. In fact, if you go to the streets and capture the reaction of most people if asked to go to a financial education class,...

Breaking the Fourth Wall of Product Design

If you’re a sci-fi aficionado, you’re probably familiar with the work of William Gibson. He’s been predicting the rise of virtual reality through his novels since the late 1980s. When he first experienced the new technology in 2015, the 67-year-old...

Optimising Supplier Relationships to Improve Customer Experience

Customers are becoming ever more demanding, but expectations extend far beyond the right balance of price and quality. From the complexity of right product, right place, right time across multiple channels – including new international joint ventures and franchises –...

5 Steps To Prepare Your Bank For AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) might sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but it’s becoming a reality faster than you might think. Owing to recent advancements in big data, computational hardware, and machine learning, artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly...

BrewDog to Split 20% of Profits Between Staff And Charities

Upmarket craft brewer BrewDog is aiming to give away 20pc of its profits between staff and charities as part of its new Unicorn Fund. The Scottish business, which was valued at £1bn earlier this year after private equity house TSG Partners...

In a Thriving Business, Customers Are Not Optional!

Modern consumers have grown up in a world of technology and innovation. They intuitively know how to define as well as expect exceptional customer service.  In a thriving business, keeping customers is not optional, it’s a requirement for businesses to...

Chatbots Revolutionising the Fight against Compulsive and Addictive Disorders

The engagement competencies of ‘chatbot’ technology will rest on the ability to inject personality into the bot itself, in order to make it more relatable to users. In turn this will have huge ramifications for industries such as the health...

London’s Chief Digital Officer: Will He Make A Difference?

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has finally brought his hunt for a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) to an end and fulfilled one of his key manifesto promises from last year with the appointment of Theo Blackwell. In a first for...

Turning the Tide of a Negative Customer Experience

No matter how hard businesses try, sometimes there is little that can be done to avoid a bad customer experience. Take the ‘bent iPhone’ saga of 2014 for example. Knowing Apple, they likely performed the necessary quality checks, but sometimes...