Written by Stefan Malcolm N26, Smava, Auto1: These are the 50 biggest tech startups from Germany Many young tech startups rely on Artificial Intelligence.Matt Cardy / Getty Images As emerges from the current report of the consulting firm Ernst & Young (EY) “Fast growth beyond borders: Tech start-ups reshaping the economy”, the tech start-up scene in Germany is booming. The young
Written by Stefan Malcolm Scandals on Facebook, Google, Uber & Co. are increasingly ensuring that people have less confidence in the big information technology companies. Banker as a swear word, hedge fund manager as a grasshopper: banks and financial groups have a notoriously bad image ever since the financial crisis of 2008 – and were in the media and
Written by Stefan Malcolm On September 14, the PSD2 comes into force. What fintechs need to know about the new payment services policy in order to benefit sustainably. Was it the supremacy of the banks? In September 2019, a new era in the banking business begins: The second Payment Service Directive, PSD2 for short , comes into force and thus sets in motion
Written by Stefan Malcolm Overview. Apps against loneliness or Alzheimer’s diagnosis, portals for the mediation of nurses. Digital companies have also discovered senior citizens as customers. Society is aging and the purchasing power of senior citizens is rising. In the meantime, every third euro is spent by people over 60. No wonder many startups focus on this consumer group and offer digital help
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown Judea Pearl, a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence, argues that AI has been stuck in a decades-long rut. His prescription for progress? Teach machines to understand the question why. Artificial intelligence owes a lot of its smarts to Judea Pearl. In the 1980s he led efforts that allowed machines to reason probabilistically. Now he’s one
Written by Stefan Malcolm Good Morning! While you slept, work elsewhere in the digital scene continued. The top topics: iPhone and iPod – for these products, the US company Apple is known. However, in order to succeed in the market, new products have to be designed again and again. For research and development of these makes the American company billions of dollars
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown In 2019, Advanced Analytics capabilities with minimal manual efforts will remain the hallmark of all competitive Business Intelligence solutions. The Business Application Research Center (BARC) 2018 Business Intelligence Survey indicates that the global BI solutions market is slated for major technological changes. The primary technology initiatives that BI users can expect in 2019 are Cloud BI deployments, BI
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown According to many market statistics, data volume is doubling every two years, but in future this time span may get further reduced. The vast portion of this data (about 79 percent) is text data. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the sub-branch of Data Science that attempts to extract insights from “text.” Thus, NLP is assuming an important role
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown Humans see less data as businesses collect more of it, which means we need something beyond data scientists. Long before data science became “a thing,” I trained as a “real” scientist, researching arcane and less-than-world-changing topics in physical chemistry. At the heart of that work was data, collected mostly manually during late-night experimental runs in
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown Feng Xiang, a professor of law at Tsinghua University, is one of China’s most prominent legal scholars. He spoke at the Berggruen Institute’s China Center workshop on artificial intelligence in March in Beijing. BEIJING — The most momentous challenge facing socio-economic systems today is the arrival of artificial intelligence. If AI remains under the control of market
