This report from Gartner says that Robotic process automation (RPA) software revenue grew 63.1% in 2018 to $846 million, making it the fastest-growing segment of the global enterprise software market. It is expected to reach $1.3 billion in 2019. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
>>>This feature from CryptoNewsZ covers the highlights of the PITCH competition for startups at the 2019 edition of the RISE conference held in Hong Kong last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
>>>This webinar-related report from Comscore takes an in-depth look at today’s over-the-top content consumption and device usage and
platform’s imminent surpassing of DVR tech. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
This feature from Nasdaq looks at major acquisitions in the first half of 2019. Though the number of M&A deals in the first half of 2019 is up by nearly 10%, the average value of the deals is down by 15.5%. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
>>>This feature from The Banking & Finance Post covers the growth of the FinTech industry and the disruption due to AI. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
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This feature from The Verge covers at the highlights of the biggest video game event E3 held in Los Angeles last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
>>>This feature from PitchBook analyses the IPO frenzy from unicorns. So far, there have been some hits and some misses. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
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