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One of the biggest companies in the world, Proctor & Gamble, thought that they could trademark common millennial internet lingoes such as LOL, WTF, and FML. Apparently, the brand thought this would help attract young customers and help the brand restore its lost market share. As bizarre as the marketing strategy sounds, it’s a debate for another day. However, this does raise an interesting question of whether brands can trademark commonly used phrases and words.

Does Apple ring a bell? The techno

Have you ever used Facebook to sign onto another site? Many of us do this pretty blindly simply because it is very convenient. But, this convenience could come at a cost.

You know the drill. You go to a website and it says “Log In With Facebook.” or Google. Usually, it just takes a couple of clicks and no logging in with other usernames or passwords. However, when you do this, Facebook essentially becomes your online identity. This means that anyone who knows these credentials have access to your

Those of you that know your maths know that an S-Curve can have an exponential portion to its curve but it can’t BE an exponential curve. However, I recently came across a diagram showing a series of S-curves overlaying an exponential curve which to me portrayed something very different to seeing either in isolation. It was in this post by Tim Urban The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence.

CHICAGO: After receiving an unprecedented number of nominations from across the insurance industry, the finalists of the Insurance Innovation Awards 2018 have been revealed, Insurance Nexus have announced.

As recent research conducted by Insurance Nexus demonstrates, insurance is undergoing dramatic and industry-wide transformation. 96% of the (over 500) senior executives interviewed agreed with the statement that “carriers must transform their operations significantly to meet the needs of custo

Fall from Grace

In case no one noticed, Stock markets in India have been painted red with the incessant bleeding of the Indian Rupee. Latest figures show the Rupee plummeting to new lows every hour with the latest being at Rs. 72.97 for 1 dollar, the Indian currency has been labeled the worst performing of all Asian countries. Gas prices have been skyrocketing with 82 Rs. for 1 liter of gasoline which has also contributed to the near 'crash ' that the currency is facing. We didn't even notice the

You have a mobile phone, you might think it’s pretty safe, but what you might not realize is that these devices can have spyware on them. Keep in mind, many of the “signs” listed below are everyday normal phone behaviors. But combined, might mean spyware. Here are some of the signs:

Unusual Background Noise

While common, humming, static, or other weird noises could be a sign that someone is tapping your line. Though all phones might have strange noises from time to time, you should check if there

In the times when the productivity is led by the technology, the finance has also benefited of the advances of the technology. At the present day, there is never-ending changes and improvements in financial technology, and there is a trend of many changes within a short time for the financial  structure. The Superior Cash is gradually becoming a reality from the imagination, which is overthrowing the ecology of traditional payment and leading the trend of capital flow in the world.

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With the auto insurance industry currently experiencing its most seismic shift since it began more than 100 years ago, we had the opportunity to speak with Aparajithan Rajendran, Solutions Architect for Next Generation Telematics at Honda to gain insights on the best methods for operationalizing data to increase tactical level solutions, establishing a UBI program, the future of car insurance, and much more.

Advice for Automotive Professionals: Estabilishing a UBI Program

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Nothing can beat Excel as a multi-purpose user interface medium. It is then only natural to want to analyze the performance of your stock portfolio in Excel, as that would enable you to devise and apply your own custom metrics.

But in order to monitor your portfolio metrics in real time, you would need to get the required market data in real time as well. You may think that getting true real time prices is only available to expensive broker applications. This is generally not true! Several exchan

There are data miners and then there is data mindset. The former are the people and/or their tools that do the digging through the numbers. The latter is about a whole lot more. 

Last week I blogged about how to help people believe the numbers. This week I am going a big step further talking about four different types of data mindsets and the implications for decision making in an organisation (see figure).   

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Where should you live in the world? What Game of Thrones family are you in? What is the food that best describes your personality? All of these answers are given and found by doing quizzes on Facebook. You have surely seen them if you use Facebook, and have may have taken these quizzes, but you definitely might want to consider stopping. If you have ever used one of these quizzes, you have probably given these third-party apps permission to access some of your personal data. Not only does this a

Of course, the Stock market’s high and down can be a frustrating moment for new investors but it does not mean that we should take it as a gambling. If we invest without proper knowledge and advice in Equity mutual funds or the stock market, it may sometimes convert into gambling where we will be in a fix what to do and what not to do. Logically, one must take advice from the expert fund Manager to tackle your funds in the stock market. They collect money from the investors and invest in stocks.

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Vendor risk assessment questionnaires are vital to the success of your Third-Party Risk Management program. They also can be tedious, time-consuming, and painful – for both your team and your vendors. It doesn’t have to be that way. The right mix of best practices and technology can reduce more risk while ultimately making life easier for you and your vendors.

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Decisions are all about emotion, however, numbers are so very important. At the end of the day if the bank balance is zero, no amount of emotion is going to change that. 
When it comes to numbers and decision making there are essentially three positions people take. 

Hosted by Silicon Valley Business Institute, co-hosted with DeepBrain Chain; Global Disruptive Innovation Summit (www.gdi-summit.com): Blockchain | Investment • AI • Developers glorious concluded in Silicon Valley, USA on October 1^st. 

This summit grasped the most cutting-edge trend of blockchain, deeply explored the blockchain investment, blockchain + AI, and the blockchain developer technologies. On the day of the event, it aggregated more than 3,000 investors, entrepreneurs, developers, and re

Biggest Market Players : Demonetization and GST:

The past 2 years of 2016 and 2017 have been nothing short of path-defining years for major changes introduced in the management of finances and taxes in India. The first significant and somewhat controversial of these changes was the note-ban put into action on the 9th of November 2018. Another one of the big changes to the system was the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Act on July 1, 2017.

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When is the last time you checked your credit report? If it has been more than a year, you can get a free one. The issue is, however, is how to really understand it. Here’s some information about obtaining and reading your credit report.

Obtaining Your Free Credit Report

Based on US law, everyone is entitled to look at their credit report from all three major credit reporting agencies. If you want to look at more than that, you can pay a fee. This law dates back to 2003, and all three major bureau

We’d like to congratulate the 25% of US-based companies that achieved GDPR compliance by the May 25^th deadline, and to share a little guidance on how to stay compliant over time.

As we all know, the GDPR is a huge deal. In addition to the scope of this new regulation, there’s also the consequences of non-compliance, i.e. up to €20 million or 4% of annual global revenue, whichever is higher.

Aside from incurring steep fines and lofty litigation, the risk of non-compliance also includes losing your

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Third-party relationships are an essential part of most successful businesses. Managing them can be tricky, and missteps costly. Yet, an alarming amount of organizations don't have a dedicated program to manage that risk.

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to learn best practices and benchmarks on how to effectively build a program that screens and monitors your third parties and reduces your risk of regulatory action. Industry expert Michael Volkov, former fed