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The hype may be cooling but Gartner finds that big data implementations are actually heating up
Almost three quarters of organizations surveyed by technology research outfit Gartner have invested or plan to invest in big data in the next two years. The analysts also found a six per cent drop in the number of organisations still gathering knowledge about big data. The bottom line from the

Jericho appoints two new senior executives
Digital marketing platform Jericho Digital Communications has boosted its executive team with two new appointments. John Holley is the new regional operations director while Lindy Shuttleworth has been appointed digital marketing strategist. ‘We’re very pleased to welcome John and Lindy as part of the expanding team to support our regional growth,’ said group CEO,

Smart home market is emerging faster than many anticipated with older consumers more engaged
Two new studies reveal how quickly the smart home market is emerging. The first, by Grand View Research suggests the market could be worth $US47B by 2020. The second by Lowes reveals that consumers in the US rank security and home monitoring the highest (62 per cent) priorities. “In general,

Invoice2go raises $35 million
Invoice2go, an invoicing app for small business owners, has raised USD $35 million in financing from Accel Partners and Ribbit Capital. The company has also appointed Greg Waldorf as new Invoice2go CEO. He was the CEO-in-Residence at Accel Partners. The company is the number one invoicing app in the App

Chatter Report: Paris conference dominates the social ecommerce chatter
The hot topic in the ecommerce social chatter stream this week was the Ecommerce Paris trade show held between the 22nd and 24th. The majority of the top tweets related to the event. On a side note, it was also the first time a language other than English dominated our

Insurers must grab the opportunity of advanced analytics says McKinsey
Analytics sits at the core of the insurance industry. Advanced math and financial theory have always been essential to risk assessments of client default. Over the past 15 years, new tools have emerged through software sophistication and the explosion of new data sources . And these new tools are changing the

Focus on context for customer experience
Companies need to focus on leveraging context to deliver great customer experiences, according to Forrester analyst Michael Barnes. Speaking at the recent SDL Innovate event in Sydney, Barnes described exactly how disruptive digital transformation has proven in the last decade. Between 1973 and 1983, only 30 per cent of the

Investment banking failing to grab the digital opportunity
Investment banks are failing to leverage the full power of the digital opportunity for both their internal processes and external interactions, leaving themselves exposed to the threat of a new insurgency, according to a new study by Accenture. The authors says that the full set of digital technologies including social

Eventbrite appoints Rachel Neumann as managing director of Australia.
Digital events platform Eventbrite has appointed a new Australian managing director for a business that is on track to track to exceed six million cumulative tickets processed in Australia by the end of this year. Australia represents about 5 per cent of Eventbrite’s global gross ticket sales. More than 100,000

RadiumOne appoints Patrick Darcy as APAC commercial director
Patrick Darcy was appointed Commercial Director APAC at RadiumOne last week. He will be spearheading the business sales in Australia, Japan and South East Asia. “When I look at where the market is heading with automated media buying, I see RadiumOne’s combination of proprietary data and delivery capability as uniquely