India’s crypto ban would limit the use of cryptocurrency, but the government still reportedly wants to support alternative blockchain innovations. Digital currencies made up around one-third of global companies’ current use cases for blockchain, according to a 2020 Deloitte Insights survey.

Innovation around speech data and voice synthesis is transforming the way voice assistants and chatbots behave, as seen in Nvidia’s recent developments for Riva Custom Voice. Launched in November, the toolkit can create custom human-like voices from 30 minutes of recording data. In November, Google launched the Bot-in-a-Box tool that makes it easier for companies to implement conversational AI.

The future of retail will be forged by digital innovation from leading retailers and brands. The technologies and experiences created by Amazon, Walmart, Starbucks, Nike, and Lululemon today point to where the entire landscape is headed tomorrow. eMarketer was founded on the idea that multiple sources and a variety of perspectives will lead to better analysis.

Apple’s limits on mobile ad tracking will spur innovation. Apple and Google dictate what’s possible on mobile devices, and the former’s enforcement of its new AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) framework yields limited profits from ad targeting and measurement.

Regulators eased the process by which certain DTx products could come to market; innovation and investment into evidence-based digital therapies followed. More clinical validation will be table stakes, regardless of which healthcare stakeholder is investing in DTx. Most digital health tools and apps are not proven to actually work.

Medical Device Innovation Consortium. Medical Economics. Medivis. Morning Consult. National Health Service (NHS). Nokia. Osso VR. Park Associates. Perkins Coie. Politico. PwC. Qualcomm. Sage Growth Partners. Samsung. SecurityScorecard. SK Telecom. STL Partners. Sykes. T-Mobile Business. The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition. Verizon Business. Virti. Vodafone.

Payments Ecosystem: Acquirers and processors, networks, and issuers each play distinct roles in the payments purchasing chain. But those roles are shifting amid commoditization, new competitive dynamics, and technological innovation.

The combination of 5G, cloud, and edge computing will bring a new generation of more sophisticated IoT. “5G is a much better connectivity play than anything we've seen before,” said Jim Brisimitzis, founder and general partner of 5G Open Innovation Lab.

Biometric payment cards are set to continue gaining momentum thanks to the growing demand for cashless transactions and innovations that are helping drive down issuer costs.

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Payment provider innovation across remittances, B2B payments, and retail card and noncard payments is setting a long-term growth runway. In the short term, providers must navigate a host of obstacles to enable more crypto users to become crypto payers—and so far they’re succeeding.

Earlier this month, more than 175,000 tech enthusiasts gathered at CES 2020 in Las Vegas for a preview of the world’s most exciting new products. As usual, the exhibit space was chock-full of futuristic, eye-popping innovations, including flying Hyundai Ubers, bionic robot sharks, smart pajamas and zero-gravity bathtubs. But beneath the shiny veneers and seemingly endless hype, tech companies are working quietly to address a growing problem: As AI, the internet of things (IoT) and next-generation connectivity relentlessly creep into everyday life, “tech angst” is at an all-time high.

And they’re seeing substantive innovation, as direct debit and real-time payments (RTP) become increasingly prominent. Though their acceptance in retail, for example, is far lower than cards’, these factors could make them more of a threat in the years to come as innovation speeds up and they hit the mainstream for more use cases. Payment Gateways.

As cars start to generate data and host additional media, several factors will drive innovation and affect the adoption of connected cars, including the entrance of new players, concerns over privacy and security, and the need for new types of infrastructure. Innovative Players. Auto manufacturers, Big Tech companies, and new entrants are driving innovation in the connected car space.

The company’s July 2020 video ad, titled “Libre de ser quien soy” (or “Free to Be Who I Am” in English), reflected on how its diverse employees are empowered to bring their whole selves to work to drive innovation at the company.

Europe (including the UK) is home to some big B2B embedded finance names, but it doesn’t yet boast a comprehensive embedded finance ecosystem like Asia and the US.

Creators have long been at the forefront of social video innovation. They set and spread trends that their audiences (and brands) follow. Over the past several years, it’s been creators from one platform—TikTok—who have shaped the biggest social video trends. In 2022, marketers will begin to catch up. Here’s what will happen this year:.

Key Insight: A relatively developed set of features with low customer demand calls for innovation and education. Viewing monthly credit card spending by purchase category in their credit card app can help improve budgeting transparency for customers. Seven issuers offer this feature, responding to relatively strong demand.

Any duplicate, fake, or business accounts on social networks are not counted toward user estimates. eMarketer’s methodology incorporates ongoing qualitative trends and changes in major company initiatives, partnerships, and innovations to deliver an estimate of how social network adoption is expected to develop. All our estimates take into account the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

Other giants could follow suit, creating a new class of players that would put pressure on legacy providers to improve simplicity and innovation. Existing Players Will Add to Their Product Portfolios and Create Bundles.

Facebook’s pace of innovation in developing capabilities that facilitate in-app shopping and checkout will accelerate, and its incentives to drive retailer adoption will get more aggressive in the year ahead. UK. Draft UK Legislation Is Set to Supercharge Scrutiny on Facebook.

Asia-Pacific has by far the largest population of social network users, estimated at 1.89 billion in 2020, or 84.2% of internet users in the region. China is the leading market globally—and a unique social media landscape. By the end of 2020, the country will account for 889.5 million social users.

It’s still too early to see the long-term impact of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and Web3 innovations. Numerous apps are exploring selling NFTs or virtual property. There are also several “crypto games” that let gamers earn blockchain-based currencies. “We haven't seen that take off on mobile,” Sydow said.