App Downloads and Revenues Recently Skyrocketed, but This Is Just the Beginning
The app market broke records in late 2017, but it’s not done growing yet. According to mobile analysis firm App Annie, 2018’s first quarter experienced 10% growth for all app downloads compared to Q1 2017. Spending increased by 22%, bringing revenue to an all-time high of $18.4 billion. It is a great time to be a […]
These Disruptive Technologies Are Reshaping the MedTech Landscape
MedTech development is a unique area of research that has the advantage of benefitting from incorporating numerous other disruptive technologies. Many of them are accelerating the refinement of new methodologies that are changing how healthcare is implemented. Below are four disruptive technologies that are substantially reshaping the current MedTech landscape. Robotics At first thought, this one […]
AR Apps Are Taking Off Thanks to Apple
2018 is a huge year for augmented reality (AR); Magic Leap promised to release its first AR goggles this year and both Apple and Google’s AR development kits are seeing growing interest after release last year. The AR market is hardly a small commodity for the future of tech; it is expected to grow from […]
IBM Wants to Test New Apps With Blockchain
Blockchain development is rapidly growing, and so are the number of patents being filed that utilize the technology for its promise of cybersecurity, anonymity, and decentralization. IBM filed a patent in 2013 for a system to track values of cryptocurrencies. In its paperwork, IBM wrote that blockchain would keep track of the “life cycle of […]
Is 2018 the Year of Edge-Computing for Apps?
The cloud is going through a bit of a transformation right now. Electronic manufacturers are pushing for more edge computing. But it’s not just physical electronics that are facing the challenge of moving away from the cloud for split-second computing; almost all mobile app developers use the cloud to process data from a user’s interactions […]
Are New Blockchain Laws Fair to the Technology?
As the development of blockchain continues, governments all around the world are engaged in heated debates about a plethora of topics surrounding the technology: its implications, businesses using it, and of course, trading cryptocurrencies. And if any government doesn’t have blockchain on their radar, they’re late to the game — almost $2.5 billion of venture capital has […]
President Trump Isn’t Focused on Facebook, He’s After Amazon
Politics and tech companies don’t always mix. They each need each other, but it couldn’t be clearer that sometimes, they just don’t get along. In light of Facebook’s recent data debacle with the U.S. and international governments, most tech companies are probably re-examining their track records a little more closely to ensure a similar fiasco […]
This New Wearable Scans Your Brain
When physicist Elena Boto tried out the University of Nottingham’s brain scanning wearable, she had to wear a conventional scanner alongside the new MedTech wearable. The research team had her perform several tasks, like bending and pointing her finder, drinking water, and bouncing a ball from a paddle. The conventional scanner was fixed in place, […]
Google Is Making Its Own Version of Blockchain
If you’ve been watching closely, you probably noticed that Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., has been picking up startups with blockchain expertise. In fact, the holdings company was one of the largest corporate investors in blockchain last year. Knowing this, it should come as no surprise that Google is diving deeper into blockchain development than ever […]
IBM’s Watson Ventures Into the Internet of Things
We all first heard of IBM’s supercomputer, Watson, when the machine challenged Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings to a game and won by a landslide. Known as one of the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers, IBM is now pivoting Watson to create Watson Assistant (WA): an AI assistant created to work with the Internet of […]