Spanish companies, behind in the use of data in decision-making We’ve been hearing for a long time that information is power. This statement is more true today than ever. We live in the era of big data, data analysis, artificial intelligence or business intelligence, which are combined with unprecedented computing capacity and which is accelerating almost every day. In addition, cloud computing makes these technologies […]
Libra, Facebook’s cryptocurrency, will arrive in January The new year will arrive, as reported by the Financial Times , with the expected virtual currency of the social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg, although with some novelties compared to the initial plans. This cryptocurrency, Libra, responds to the initiative of the Libra Association and will be backed by the US dollar, thus moving […]
Digitization can save 90 billion euros for European industry Up to 225 euros per hectare would increase the profit in the agri-food sector if digitization were applied in that industry, according to the European Union. In the case of the manufacturing industry, digitization could save up to 90,000 euros. In the case of Spain, the industry faces an unavoidable opportunity for its development, especially […]
Foxconn moves part of Apple’s production to Vietnam to avoid the US-China trade war The relocation of production is one more consequence of the intermittent and not openly declared trade war between the United States and China. In this case, the Chinese company Foxconn, a regular device assembler for Apple, has received the order from the Californian company of the bitten apple to move part of its production outside […]
Spain and the pandemic: 52% of companies maintained their activity and 15% temporarily suspended it The coronavirus pandemic is having a financial impact, beyond health, which companies in each sector experience to varying degrees. Some businesses have increased their turnover, some have been reconfigured and others have had to completely stop their activity. A widespread effect is that of digital transformation. In the last three years, and now even more […]
23% of Spanish companies do not protect their mobile data The relocation of offices from their usual place to workers’ homes, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, increases the need for security for companies. Now mobile data protection should be a priority . But, according to the report Current state of the security of corporate mobile data in motion in Spain by Kingston, there […]
Europe moves towards the «right to reparation» MEPs want to establish in the European Union (EU) the «right to repair» to end the premature obsolescence of electronic devices. With 395 votes in favor (plus 207 abstentions) and 94 against, the European Parliament has approved a resolution for a more sustainable single market in which the useful life of the products should be […]
IDC predicts that digitization spending in Spain will reach € 44.9 billion in 2021 The effects of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus will also have an impact on investment in digitization. This has been confirmed by the firm IDC Research Spain that, in the presentation of the ICT Predictions for 2021 and with a macroeconomic scenario in which 80% of European organizations have reduced their revenue in […]
Companies use past data and reactive decision making one out of every two times Data is an invaluable resource for businesses. Its analysis has become a necessity for all types of companies, of different sizes and sectors of activity. But, at the moment, its full potential is not being released. Only 1 in 6 companies responds today to the category of «data experts» , who usually have a data […]
«Productivity Score», the Microsoft tool that can compromise employee privacy Actions such as handling email or activating the webcam during a video conference are recorded in minute detail with the Productivity Score, a tool that Microsoft makes available to entrepreneurs to carry out exhaustive monitoring in their organizations. The time the employee spends in Outlook or Microsoft Teams and the messages they send or reply […]
France announces tax on big tech Amazon or Facebook are just two of the big tech companies that have received a notice from the French tax authorities. The reason is a new specific tax for these large companies that arises, in part, as a response to the tariffs that the United States has imposed on certain French-made products. The origin of […]
BQ seems to live its last moments between defaults and lack of customer service In 2018, the Spanish technology company Mundo Reader (BQ’s parent company) was acquired by a business group in Vietnam after facing heavy losses since 2016 and being unable to face the unstoppable arrival of low-cost brands of origin Chinese . The situation became unsustainable and has not improved since then, on the contrary. At the […]
Salesforce could announce next week that it buys Slack for 17,000 million One of the most popular instant communication platforms is about to join the service portfolio of one of the most powerful on-demand business software companies. This is pointed out by the Wall Street Journal, which also states that the agreement would be made public in the next few days. The deal would mean the acquisition […]
Will the networks withstand the volume of traffic expected for Black Friday 2020? The United States today celebrates one of its most deeply rooted festivities, Thanksgiving, which means that Black Friday 2020 will officially start tomorrow . This day full of offline and online sales has become a tradition outside the American borders. In recent years, it has been expanding its area of influence and now, with the […]