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Asian shares advance as oil prices retreat
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 06/08/2022
» RECAP: Asian equities mostly rose yesterday as a drop in oil prices to pre-Ukraine war levels stirred hopes of a slowdown in inflation and bank interest-rate hikes. But while global markets have enjoyed a broadly positive week, recession worries and Chinese military drills around Taiwan have traders' nerves on edge.
Oracle Targets the Health Cloud With $28.3 Billion Bid for Cerner
Business, Published on 22/12/2021
» Oracle Corp. on Monday announced its largest deal ever, a roughly $28.3 billion purchase of electronic-medical-records company Cerner Corp. that vaults the business-software giant deeper into healthcare technology.
How to ride the post-Covid wave
Business, Published on 16/10/2020
» Covid-19 has transformed the world. As uncertainties multiply, brands and businesses must learn to navigate uncharted waters in rapid cycles. To inspire businesses to move forward, however daunting the outlook may seem, the Bangkok-based marketing agency Head100 offers perspectives on possible pathways to reimagining the "next normal" -- be it old or now.
Don't call AI bigoted
Life, James Hein, Published on 06/11/2019
» Despite what some claim, Artificial Intelligence is not racist. Google built a system to detect hate speech or speech that exhibited questionable content. Following the rules given, it picked out a range of people with what some try to claim was a bias toward black people. Wrong. The AI simply followed the rules and a larger number of black people and some other minorities, as defined in the US, were found to be breaking those rules. It didn't matter to the machines that when one group says it, it isn't defined as hate speech by some; it simply followed the rules. People can ignore or pretend not to see rules, but machines don't work that way. What the exercise actually found was that speech by some groups is ignored while the same thing said by others isn't. As the saying goes, don't ask the question if you're not prepared to hear the answer.
The fight for enterprise IT dominance
Business, Published on 25/01/2019
» 2018 was like the Ninja Warrior TV series for emerging technologies, with artificial intelligence (AI), automation, data and blockchain the key competitors trying to surmount the many challenges in their way.
The omnichannel future
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 14/01/2019
» Consumers in the digital world are rapidly driving demand for easier ways to shop, especially in mobile-mad Asia. Easy means anytime, anywhere, while accepting all types of payments. That's where omnichannel comes in, derived from the Latin prefix omni meaning all or universal.
Fulfilling the smart city vision
Business, Published on 02/08/2018
» In January this year, a massive downpour hit Bangkok, flooding the capital and surrounding provinces. Traffic came to a standstill. Thousands of people heading to work during the morning rush hour never got to work that day.