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Qualcomm Rolls Out Reference Design For Bluetooth Headset With Alexa

PYMNTS

Qualcomm Technologies, a unit of chipmaker Qualcomm, announced Tuesday (October 23) the launch of a Bluetooth smart headset reference design featuring push-button activation support for Alexa users of Android phones with the Alexa app installed. The reference design is available now, noted Qualcomm Technologies.

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A disruptive innovation appears

Chris Skinner

I was listening to a financier talking about FinTech the other day, and claiming that they are all sustaining innovations and not disruptive. They were referring to Clayton Christensen’s innovator’s dilemma discussions, where Professor Christensen points to different markets that were destroyed by disruptors.

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BNY Mellon Outlines Innovation Agenda — Less Office Space, More Blockchain

Bank Innovation

BNY Mellon has made a lot of noise about blockchain technology in recent months and that continued in a discussion of the bank’s innovation agenda yesterday. This practice normally refers to branches — all the Read More.

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FinCEN and OCC address cryptocurrency: responsible innovation and pervasive hype

CFPB Monitor

Associate Director Evangelista stressed “responsible innovation” by the cryptocurrency industry, in order to protect consumers and national security interests, as well as to combat cybercrime and other illicit financial activity. Responsible Innovation “. Responsible Innovation “.

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Perficient’s Brian Flanagan Featured in 2021 SoDA Report

Perficient

In his article, he references the popular “building a house” analogy, where the design process is very sequential. The SoDA Report is its regular publication that brings together research, thought leadership and case studies from some of the world’s leading digital agencies and technology innovators. See the full report.

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Artificial Intelligence Innovation Steered By U.S. and China

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Microsoft was significantly behind that, with 5,903 patents, but that’s still good enough for the global major leagues when it comes to AI research and innovation. Those growth rates are not the whole story when it comes to AI research and innovation, however. -based IBM has 8,902 AI patents, the biggest such collection in the world.

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EDI Challenges Reference Data’s Big Four

Tech and Finance

A relative newcomer to the reference data business, Exchange Data International, is challenging the incumbents for what it terms anti-competitive practices. Burton-Taylor International Consulting, the leading authority on the market data business, estimates the global market for reference data is $2 billion to $3 billion.

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