Global e-commerce activity is expanding fast with developing economies gaining prominence. E-Commerce: Payments through mobile, internet and cards – This has vastly transformed the way of doing business in the modern day. We all have come across or most likely heard of artificial intelligence in some or the other form unless some of us been burrowed deep underground for the last couple of years. Customer segmentation became essential and first priority and super easy with AI to identify systematic groups of customers to make marketing more precise. In our todays online shopping how much is artificial intelligence.

Deloitte Global forecasts major strides in machine learning for the enterprise, a worldwide appetite for digital subscriptions among consumers, and ongoing smartphone dominance – along with eight additional predictions.Among the findings of the 17th edition of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions are indications that business organisations will double their use of machine learning technology by the end of 2018. TMT Predictions highlights five key areas that Deloitte Global believes will unlock more intensive use of machine learning in the enterprise by making it easier, cheaper and faster. The most important key area is the growth in new semiconductor chips that will increase the use of machine learning, enabling applications to use less power, and at the same time become more responsive, flexible and capable. "We have reached the tipping point where adoption of machine learning in the enterprise is poised to accelerate," says Mark Casey, Deloitte global media & entertainment & TMT Africa leader. TMT Predictions includes a number of consumer forecasts as well.

Artificial intelligence and blockchain initiatives have emerged as critical new areas of focus for IT systems buyers in the UK, and across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Emea), in the Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey for 2018. Discover how organisations are going about their BI and analytics on the newer data stores. You forgot to provide an Email Address. This email address doesn't appear to be valid. This email address is already registered.

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Egyptian company AvidBeam won the award for best emerging company in the field of artificial intelligence in the world during the CES Exhibition and Conference held in Las Vegas, USA. During the first day of the exhibition, the Egyptian company won a competition organised by Trend Forward Capital, one of the world's largest financiers of start-ups. AvidBeam is partaking in CES Conference as part of the Egyptian delegation of eight companies. Founding Partner of AvidBeam, Hossam Samy, said that the company is working in the field of innovative solutions, analysing video to automatically find the important commercial and security information they contain. It also outputs simple reports on commercial and security operations to achieve maximum efficiency.

Google is adding a multitude of languages to its speech recognition capabilities. The expansion will cover 30 international languages and local dialects, including India and Africa's emerging regions. This will increase the total number of supported languages to 119. The update will include eight additional Indian languages and two African languages, Amharic and Swahili. The expanded speech recognition will provide more voice-based search opportunities, whether searching the web or typing using one's voice.

The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet of things (IIoT) will breakout in 2018, with organizations ramping up deployments and incorporating IoT technologies into their products, processes and workflows. Research firm Gartner predicts there will be nearly 20 billion devices connected to the IoT by 2020, and IoT product and service suppliers will generate more than $300 billion in revenue. We spoke with a number of IT leaders and industry experts about what to expect from IoT deployments in the coming year. Following are six IoT trends to watch in 2018. Scott Gnau, CTO of Hortonworks, predicts 2018 will be the year of consumer IoT.

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The Future Digital Economy is ERP3 In technology or at least the application and security areas I sit within, acronyms are everywhere,... As cloud computing progresses forward, an ages-old problem for IT is resurfacing--how to integrate and secure data stores that are disbursed geographically and across a growing diversity of applications. SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DeepBrain Chain is an Artificial Intelligence Computing Platform driven by blockchain. Sir, Your editorial "The paradox in ceding powers of decision to AI" (FT Weekend, December 30) makes the correct observation that "without care, … The IT infrastructure landscape is evolving rapidly. What will it look like in 2020?

– This article is only meant for discussion and healthy arguments, its not a conclusion by any means this is just an assumption and current picture focused on African & few other markets. Today payment industry can be compared with either payment war, payment jungle or even just payment storm. On the other hand how Mobile Financial Services have brought FinClusion (financial inclusion) to millions of people that have no access to traditional methods of banking. In many parts of Africa, there simply exists no bank infrastructure for people to be able to bank in the traditional way. Even where they do exist, people do not dare to enter into the big bank halls due to killing charges, KYC requirement equivalent to climbing the mount everest and time to travel miles to go or even time to stand in long queues or have the patience to go through the bank's processes.