2020 Breathes New Life into Telecom M&A
Just when you thought telecom M&A was pronounced dead, it is bouncing back to life, revived in part by Covid-19. While other industries struggled, telecommunications fared well in 2020. Locked-down,…
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Apple Warns of 3 iOS Zero-Day Security Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
Apple on Tuesday released updates for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS with fixes for three security vulnerabilities that it says may have been actively exploited in the wild. Reported by an…
Coronavirus: Why digitisation is a double-edged sword for the Middle East
While technology may help to battle the pandemic’s fallout, it also gives governments powerful tools for tracking their own citizens. In their fight against the coronavirus outbreak, countries across the…
How McKinsey Is Making $100 Million (and Counting) Advising on the Government’s Bumbling Coronavirus Response
For the world’s best-known corporate-management consultants, helping tackle the pandemic has been a bonanza. It’s not clear what the government has gotten in return. In the middle of March, as…
Returning to Work in the Future of Work
Embracing purpose, potential, perspective, and possibility during COVID-19 As the COVID-19 pandemic drives profound societal and organizational shifts, leaders have the opportunity to return to work by designing the future…
COVID-19 tracing apps proving to be a tricky business around the world
Scores of digital contract tracing apps have been developed around the world in an attempt to stem the pandemic. Many have floundered and for those that haven’t, it’s still not…
How Covid-19 would impact enterprise technology
When Covid-19 leaves, everything as we understand it to be now; our daily lives, our interactions with friends, family, sport, technology and every other human endeavor would have had a…
COVID-19 Pandemic Halts Double-Digit Growth of Smart Home Devices in Europe, Says IDC
LONDON, July 9, 2020 — In the first quarter of 2020, the smart home market grew 3.8% compared with the same quarter of the previous year, according to research by International…
Data-driven digital transformation: five technology initiatives for the age of Covid-19
The things we do not know about Covid-19 seem almost endless. There are no clear answers yet to some of the most fundamental questions for any disease – including the…
How Covid-19 has shaped the future of work
Rachel Gawley, CTO of Whitespace, discusses how the Covid-19 pandemic has shaped the future of how employees and companies work. As companies have continued to operate during the pandemic,…
