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Skills the Irish Government CIO uses to advance digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

He met with resistance from politicians when plans for a public services card and a public sector data center seemed to intersect with politically sensitive issues, privacy rights, and the path to net zero. The next move in citizen engagement will be a digital wallet.

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Futurist conversations: Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard on Open vs Closed Systems

Trends in the Living Networks

Android within the platform is open – arguably too open – yet it competes with other mobile platforms it in fact so has boundaries. Google’s early move to expose APIs to many of its products provided the impetus for this to become standard practice across the net. *

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Funko getting into NFTs by combining physical and digital pop culture products and acquiring key app

GeekWire

based maker of toys and figurines announced Thursday that it is acquiring a majority stake in TokenWave, developer of TokenHead , a mobile app for showcasing and tracking non-fungible token (NFT) holdings. Net sales jumped 6% year over year to $226.5 The Everett, Wash.-based Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Funk Photo).

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ACCO Brands will pay $340M to acquire Seattle-area game controller company PowerA

GeekWire

PowerA, founded in 2009, produces third-party hardware and accessories for the console and mobile gaming market, such as chargers and screen protectors. It expects net sales of approximately $200 million in 2020, a 20% increase over 2019, and profit of $50 million.

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Verizon and T-Mobile want your business more than ever right now

The Verge

T-Mobile and Verizon are both offering to take your old, damaged phone off your hands and replace it with a shiny new 5G model. Meanwhile, T-Mobile wants to make the most of a relatively strong hand right now. T-Mobile gained a net of 773,000 postpaid phone customers, and AT&T added 595,000, its highest number in 10 years.

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Uber continues to hemorrhage cash during the pandemic despite growth in delivery

The Verge

billion over the last three months, with its adjusted net revenues down 29 percent compared to Q2 of 2019. It wasn’t as grim a quarter as the first three months, in which Uber’s net loss was $2.9 Mobility recovery is clearly dependent on the public health situation in any given area,” Khosrowshahi said.

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RealNetworks releases its first hardware product, a kiosk that checks for proper facemask usage

GeekWire

million in the second quarter, with a net loss of $1.4 RealNetworks’ established lines of business are consumer media licenses and subscriptions, including video codec technologies and its RealPlayer software; services and technologies for mobile carriers; and casual video games for mobile devices and computers.

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