From the UK government to retail in Singapore and healthcare in Australia, we’ve got a very global round-up of digital transformation stories this week. A report has revealed that more than half of UK government departments are struggling to implement digital transformation, and a lack of skills is partially to blame. Plus, a snapshot of […]
Finding government contracts and successfully bidding on them is a challenge for small businesses. The new BidSync supplier application from Periscope Holdings has been redesigned to deliver the most relevant bid for each business. The app is powered by artificial intelligence (AI) leveraging machine learning technology to give small businesses “winnable government opportunities for each
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The number of jobs in the country increased by 201,000 for August, as did the average wage which rose by 10 cents to $27.16, according to a new report (PDF) by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). August 2018 Employment Situation Report The unemployment rate stayed the same at 3.9 percent, meaning small businesses
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Welcome to The Week in Digital Transformation, our regular round-up of the most interesting news, ideas and research from the past week to shed light on the mysterious process of “digital transformation”. This week, the UK government is getting on board with voice in a bid to make government accessible in new ways, and one of
Google announced Wednesday a new specialty search feature named Dataset Search that is powered partially by the dataset schema we covered a few months ago. Dataset Search allows searchers to find datasets on many topics across “environmental and social sciences, as well as data from other disciplines including government data and data provided by news
The Bi-Annual Trends Report from Small Business Expo was just released, and more than half or 51% of respondent in the survey say there is too much government regulation. The report looks to gauge small businesses sentiment to gain insight into the challenges and trends currently affecting this segment. This is the first of the
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We Americans tend to have mixed feelings about our government. Many of us want more help from it, while others would like the government to just leave us alone. That’s pretty much the sentiment of small business owners, too. In the WASP Barcode Technologies’ 2017 State of Small Business Report, we found that half of the
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Now it’s Twitter’s turn. The Israeli government said today that it would take “legal action” against Twitter for “ignoring repeated requests to remove online content that was inciting or supportive of terrorism,” according to Bloomberg. Justice minister Ayelet Shaked was referencing accounts and content created by Hamas and Hezbollah, among others. She added that terrorist
A lot of the brunt of cybercrimes are borne by businesses. The Daily Mail of April 2017, reported that the Ipsos Mori poll for the Government shows that around 46 percent of firms suffered digital assaults last year, 2016. A separate Parliamentary report stated that 2.5 million companies out of the 5.5 million in the
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Earlier this month, SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space exploration company that (he hopes) will one day take humans to Mars, suffered a setback. A Falcon 9 rocket was carrying a top-secret government payload that was meant to go into orbit. But according to multiple reports the payload was lost instead. No one involved is offering much information.
