Business & Markets

Litmus Automation, an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform provider, has announced a distribution agreement with AMAX Global Services (AGS), a software development and system integration business partner.

Italtel and Italian Fiber-to-the-Home wholesale operator Open Fiber have extended their contracts related to the development of an ultra-broadband network in underserved areas of Italy.

The recently announced merger between US mobile operator rivals T-Mobile and Sprint in an all-stock transaction valued at US$26.5 billion (€22.33 billion) will be no slam dunk, according to data and analytics company, GlobalData.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Global Pumps Market in the Oil and Gas Industry, Forecast to 2024, finds that there has been a concentrated focus on operational expenditure (OPEX) in the oil & gas industry following the oil price plunge in 2016.

Pervasive Displays (PDi), a provider in e-paper displays, announced the launch of a new high resolution three color 12-inch Electronic Paper Display (EPD) module featuring an internal timing controller (iTC), the E2B98FS081.

The top two business priorities for CIOs of midsize enterprises (MSEs) in 2018 are growth and digital transformation. However, 57% of MSEs are not yet delivering digital initiatives, according to findings from Gartner Inc.’s 2018 CIO Agenda Survey.

A new report from Juniper Research found that Smart Toys will represent an $18 billion (€15.10 billion) hardware and software market by 2023, up from an estimated $6 billion (€5.03 billion) in 2018. This increase will primarily be driven by the growing popularity of smartphone‑connected toys and related in-app purchases,

Recently in Madrid, Huawei has presented its WEU 5G Roadshow 2018 programme. Huawei 5G demo truck comes this year with the end to end portfolio of 5G products and solutions with full range, full scenario, and all-cloud being the defining characteristics and is going to tour ten European countries over the next three months.

Berg Insight, the IoT market research provider, released a new market report covering the cargo tracking market. The number of active tracking devices deployed for cargo loading units including trailers, intermodal containers, rail freight wagons, air cargo containers, cargo boxes and pallets reached 3.7 million worldwide in 2017.

Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., a global provider and innovator of cloud, messaging, digital and IoT products and platforms, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Dixons Carphone plc’s honeybee software business, a provider of digital solutions targeted at optimising the customer experience.

NovaSparks™, the field programmable gate array (FPGA) market data company, announced that its pure FPGA ticker plant appliance, NovaTick, can now automatically adapt its output data rate to microwave networks’ strict bandwidth requirements.

Only 1% of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organisations, and only 8% of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain, according to Gartner‘s 2018 CIO Survey. Furthermore, 77% of CIOs surveyed said their organisation has no interest in the technology

A new report from Navigant Research examines the global intelligent buildings market in the era of digital transformation, providing forecasts, broken out by segment, sub-segment, sector, and region, through 2027.

Dr. Helmut Reisinger is the new chief executive officer (CEO) of Orange Business Services, taking over from Thierry Bonhomme, who becomes special advisor to the chairman and CEO of Orange before retirement later this year.

One of the biggest challenges marketers face today is customer acquisition and retention, says Adam Mittelberg is chief marketing officer of DataBlockChain.io.

The Zigbee Alliance, an organisation of companies creating, maintaining and delivering energy-efficient, open, global standards for the Internet of Things (IoT), has opened certification for its updated Smart Energy 1.4 application standard.