Following are highlights from the past week's news developments in blockchain, artificial intelligence and Internet-of-Things technologies:
Blockchain/Bitcoin conferences planned across Europe
Moscow-based Smile-Expo is hosting a series of Blockchain & Bitcoin conferences across Europe this year, including a first-time event scheduled for Sept. 7 in Stockholm. During another conference held in May in Prague, attendees talked about…
The China-based messaging app WeChat has seen phenomenal growth over its brief five-and-a-half-year history, having recently passed 700 million monthly active users.
What makes it so popular? As a writeup in The Economist observed, quoting a U.S. venture capitalist, Tencent's WeChat is there for its users "at every point of your daily contact with the world,…
Businesses have long recognised that a loyal, repeat customer is far more valuable than a brand-new one. Most also realise that a small portion of their existing customer base generates most of a company's revenues.
For years, the accepted wisdom has been that 80 percent of profits come from just 20 percent of customers -- a…