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Aug 28, 2017

Why young doctors will save the world? Our August 2017 HIT Market Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, Please click here for our August HIT Market Update. The famous computer scientist, Alan Kay, once said that technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born. For those of us born before the advent of the internet and mobile phone, they are still marvels of technology. But for our children they are ambient. For them, self-driving cars, drone deliveries or virtual buddies like Alexa will be novel and new. In healthcare, we haven’t always welcomed new technologies. The resistance towards the adaptation of electronic medical records is a good example. Many physicians kicked and…

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Aug 22, 2017

Is Big Data A Weapon That Has Changed Our World Forever? Our August 2017 Enterprise Data and Analytics Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, The report found here covers m&a trends, values and deals in the four segments of the Enterprise Data and Analytics sector that we follow and sometimes lead. Please click here for our August Enterprise Data and Analytics Update. We often talk about game-changing tools that confer a competitive advantage. Sometimes we use the term “weapon”. In the case of Big Data, the latter terminology may well be most apt. Not all weapons change the game; but some do. In the late 15th century, it was guns. Suddenly, those fighting with knives, swords, shields or even bows…

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Aug 18, 2017

B2B Fintech Is Alive and Well – And Growing: Our August 2017 Fintech Market Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, The market is up, the market is down, and it doesn’t seem to matter right now; interest in the Fintech sector keeps marching on. Our report found here highlights some of the m&a trends and transactions in the seven segments of the Fintech world that we follow, and sometimes lead, and so far, it’s all still pointing up. Please read more in our August Fintech Market Update, here. A recent report by KPMG indicated that in Q2 the global Fintech industry saw $8.4bn in transaction value as a result of around 290 deals – up from…

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Aug 7, 2017

AI Will Change Everything. Be Prepared. Our August M&A Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, Our report found here contains an update on the dozen+ segments of the information industry that we following and sometimes lead. Please click here for our August M&A Update. When I was about 16, I read Robert Heinlein’s book, “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”. Besides espousing some libertarian ideas that I thought were pretty interesting at the time, it also was my first exposure to what we now call “artificial intelligence”. In the book, a series of linked self-learning super computers becomes a single self-aware being – called Mike. A few years later we got HAL, the self-protective, self-aware…

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Jul 18, 2017

Lies, Statistics, Analytics, and Intuition – Our July 2017 Enterprise Data & Analytics Market Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, The report found here gives our sense of the current m&a trends, values and deals in the four segments of the Enterprise Data and Analytics sector that we follow and sometimes lead. We’re big fans of firms that provide Enterprise Data and Analytics. They help others to gather massive amounts of fast-moving structured and unstructured data from dozens of sources (marketing, sales, web interactions, transactions, social media, weather, news, etc.) and then clean, integrate, aggregate, optimize, and analyze that data in an effort to find correlation, causation and anomalies. The result is better insights, inspiration, and…

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