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In Asia and the Pacific government and private companies are using digital platforms to address the pandemic. They should also use them to speed their economies into recovery.  Digital platforms – such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba and Tencent – are transforming...

Startup growth can be challenging at the best of times—in 2020, the odds against building a new organization are huge. Here are three of the best outreach practices new startups can adopt in 2020 to grow their business. Landing Pages to...

The line between business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) may seem fuzzy, but there are important differences between the two. Here's what you should know. Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) are often used in coordination with one another, or even interchangeably as...

King Kong's founder, Sabri Suby provides insights and advice for those working on the strategy and campaign for the launch of a product or service during the COVID-19 pandemic. 30-second summary: In order to have the guts to push out...

5G has been a source of debate during the pandemic – much of it based on misguided and misinformed comments. For a small, vocal minority, 5G has been the target of frustration and anger as a result of ongoing misunderstandings about what it actually is, how it...

Just as redeploying a fleet of small British fishing boats helped during the Battle of Dunkirk, marshalling the research equipment and expertise of the many agtech labs around the world could help combat pandemics, say the authors of a just-published article in Nature Biotechnology. Sophisticated...

Tucked into a suburban shopping center about two miles from a Civil War battlefield, this Tractor Supply Co. outlet has become a rare hot spot in an economy that has gone ice cold. Since the first days of the coronavirus pandemic, the retailer for farmers, ranchers and suburbanites...

Balancing investment and saving is a core issue during any recession yet the COVID crisis looks like, a) increasing investment in technologies that ultimately save money, such as automation and b) also creating new space for products tied to the search for vaccines that could then impact...

Remittances across the world could decline by $108.6 billion this year as job losses mount and employers’ trim payrolls amid a Covid-19 pandemic that has devastated economies, according to a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Money sent to Asia, where about a third of migrant...

Companies now face a double threat. On one hand, a fast-changing, sometimes chaotic environment increases risks to business – and on the other, it creates more opportunities for cyber-criminals. With this in mind, WIRED and Accenture convened a round table to look at the rapidly evolving threat...