Some companies are achieving dramatic returns on their digital investments, thanks to much more powerful technologies—and a set of key strategies. Those agile players are building a financial advantage that will be more difficult to overcome with each passing year.
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In late 2014, an anonymous person offered to send a German journalist 11.5 million encrypted documents detailing the structure of offshore business entity.
Linkurious is a partner of the International Investigative Journalist Consortium (ICIJ) since the Swiss Leaks scandal. ICIJ network of 370 journalists is using Linkurious to investigate the Panama Papers. Learn the inside story of the biggest data leak investigation in history.
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5 Things You Need To Know About PSD2 – Payment Services Directive – SEPA Payments info helping corporates navigate payments technology & industry trends
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New research out of Stanford and Cornell points to a future where cars, and perhaps robots, can anticipate what we’ll do or want next.
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A new open source software offering from IBM could change the way transactions are handled online — and that means more than just financial transactions.
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As more organizations begin to deploy Spark in their production clusters, the need for fine-grained monitoring tools becomes paramount.
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The Fujitsu Labs researchers then ran tests using 8 x 12-core servers and a 50 million record dataset. It claims that “existing techniques would take roughly one week to develop a predictive model with 96 per cent accuracy.“
With its preliminary machine learning algorithm selection run, its “technique reached that level in slightly more than two hours.” Going from one week to two hours is one heck of a speed up.
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In his presentation, “What does it take to make Google work at scale?” Schwarzkopf discusses the architecture behind those 139 microseconds between submitting a search request in the Google input bar, and the pages of ads-and-search results that are returned.
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Imagine a world where commercial agreements are executed by digital smart contracts. Where the contract and payments are actually tied together by mathematical rules of the blockchain.
A commercial term like “Net-30” that obligates a business to pay its invoice in 30 days, could be automatically executed on the day it’s due. Or an agreement to pay on delivery could track that the product actually was received and signed off on as in good order, before payment is released.
Escrow systems, third-party agents, and intermediary networks could be rethought to be far more efficient.
Or perhaps even more exciting is the ability for business-to-business blockchains to enable digital native payment networks that can instantly settle funds directly between parties.
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Last year, a Spotify intern named Sander Dieleman applied a powerful machine learning technology called “deep learning” to their database, allowing the program to learn to analyze music. The neural network automatically — using nothing but raw audio data — came to recognize distinctive patterns in the music.
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