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Exclusive Interview with IBM: Leading in a Hybrid World
How do you define a hybrid cloud platform and how is it driving client’s digital transformation? Hybrid cloud is IT infrastructure that connects at least one public cloud and at least one private cloud, and provides orchestration, management and application
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UNCDF: Women as Builders of Inclusive Digital Economies
The dramatic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, at times, seemingly defies belief. Yet, every time there is an analysis of the pandemic’s damage — human, societal, economic — a recurring narrative emerges, one that is quite believable. That COVID-19 has
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Tech, Trust, and Women’s Role in Creating the Future
Cecilia Harvey’s jaw-dropping career was launched by a chance careers-day visit to Wall Street. Today, she is a woman on a mission. Several missions, actually. One of those missions is to reverse a crisis of trust in technology. “Now is
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Investors Depart as Tech Stocks Come Under Assault
Zoom zonked out this week. Investors dumped shares in the videoconferencing service during a wholesale selloff that drove the company’s shares over the cliff, lopping 17 percent off its market cap on Monday and another 6 percent yesterday. A more
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Big Tech Five Cash In on Pandemic
Big Tech is on a high. Yesterday, four of the five FAAAM giants published their quarterly results and surprised Wall Street analysts with a stronger than expected revenue growth over Q3. Year-on-year, the quartet (Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple) registered
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Rainmaker: Revolutionary Water Supply Solutions That Are Needed Now More Than Ever
Across our entire planet, less than three percent of water is fresh. Of this, only 0.5 percent is accessible — and much of it has become contaminated by pollution and untreated wastewater. The reality is that over two billion people
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Q&A with IBM’s Bashar Kilani: Need for New Skills Emerging as We Re-Imagine and Transition to the New Normal
Bashar Kilani oversees IBM business in the Gulf countries and the Levant, working with clients and partners across industries. In this Q and A, CFI.co asks Kilani about the effects of coronavirus on business in the region, and more. Tell
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Coming to a Filling Station Near You: Green Hydrogen Pumps to Power Fuel Cell Electric Cars
New market dynamics have come into play, the electric car market is surging — and there is stronger growth to come. Thousands of new green hydrogen pumps at filling stations are planned to power fuel cell batteries and electric motor
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Pandemic Gives Boost to Illicit Trade
A corrosive agent in many guises that threatens public health, depresses growth, undermines good governance, and degrades the environment, illicit trade permeates global society and stunts development. It now represents an estimated 3.3 percent of the world economy. Though that
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Real Cutting Edge in Cancer Care is Centred on Radiation Therapy
Swedish company Elekta brings together science, technology and clinical intelligence to revolutionise cancer care. For almost five decades, Elekta has been a leader in precision radiation medicine. Radiation therapy is a critical cancer treatment, used on its own or in
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