Blog  Sree Vijaykumar | From the Editor's Desk For those who think Artificial Intelligence is stuff for science fiction, here are a few stories that may change your mind. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has not only poached 40 employees from Carnegie Mellon's Robotics program, but also gone on record to say that the future of Uber is driverless cars. Possibly close to 15% of Google's web searches (especially those the search engine has never seen before) are now being managed by RankBrain, an AI system that has been in development for over 5 years. And finally, Russian online giant Yandex has launched a new project to use robots to write articles - Comment | |
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| TelecomDisruption in the Telecommunication Industry: African telecom firms must innovate In 1994 when mobile telephony started in Africa, telecommunication revolved around the rich. Between 1994 and 2014, mobile phone subscribers across Africa rose to 329 million and revenue from voice, message and data crossed $75billion mark in 2013 contributing 5.4% of sub-Sahara Africa GDP. And today, Africa is the largest growing mobile phone continent in the world. However, the past few months have witnessed a period of decline in profit as a result of competitions among the mobile operators and growth in Over-the-top services (OTTs). Various reports suggest that the worst is yet to come for the industry. According to Detecon Consulting; “OTT services market is expected to overtake the mobile services market by 2021.” Ovum, the London based research firm predicts that the telecommunications industry will lose $479 billion between 2012 and 2020 from customers using over-the-top (OTT) voice applications. Across the continent, services such as Whatsapp, Skype, Facebook, BBM are becoming |
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| HRIndia is the last BRIC standing: WPP CEO Britain's WPP reiterated its full-year net sales target on Monday after posting an acceleration in third-quarter trading due to easier comparatives and solid demand in Europe and the United States. Third-quarter like-for-like net sales growth hit 3.3 percent, compared with 2.3 percent in the first half... |
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