Thematic Tailwinds Are The Real Drivers Behind Acquisitions At AT&T And Rockwell Collins

Over the last several days we’ve seen a pronounced pickle up in M&A activity including several high profile billion dollar transactions that were announced from AT&T acquiring Time Warner and Rockwell Collins taking out B/E Aerospace to British Tobacco and Reynolds America and TD Ameritrade scooping up Scottrade Financial. Even […]

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Disruptive ‘Crypto’ Startup Centz Eyes $160Bn Gift Cards Market

US-based start-up CentzInc. has vowed to “disrupt” the global gift card industry at the Money 2020 and CoinAgenda trade shows in Las Vegas, giving consumers control of their gift cards by combining all such card balances into a single lump sum that is denominated in digital currency Centz Gold Bucks […]

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BlackBerry’s Surprisingly Speedy Return To The Smartphone Market

As part of its calendar Q3 earnings call, BlackBerry announced that is would no longer be manufacturing BlackBerry smartphones. The hardware-focused game was over and the future would be in software. Which makes the timing of today’s launch of the new DTEK60 BlackBerry handset kind of awkward.

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MIT’s Nightmare Machine Shows How Artificial Intelligence Could be Used To Manipulate Us

It’s almost Halloween and not only kids, but also scientists, need to have fun. This is a possible explanation of an experiment the MIT Media Lab is currently carrying out, dubbed the Nightmare Machine. Deep learning algorithms are used to turn normal, everyday images, into scary, sinister pictures. Visitors of a […]

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