Concept: Australian technology startup 365mesh has introduced an IoT Platform as a Service (PaaS) that operates as a multi-tenant IoT platform created to scale globally, ingesting data from multiple sources such as cameras, sensors, and vehicles. It leverages AI and ML capabilities and processes data via an analytics engine to improve accuracy in customer insight delivery. Nature of Disruption: 365mesh’s IoT PaaS secures the whole IoT stack, including sensors, networks, data ingestion engines, and user apps. The platform supports all the following connectivity options such as 3G, 4G, 5G, Narro ..read more

The beauty sector is a hotbed for innovation, with new online channels giving niche and start-up brands a platform to promote revolutionary concepts. From personalised skincare with a scientific base to celebrity-owned brands promoting inclusivity and social causes, the personal care market is more creative yet competitive than ever before. Focusing on the use of diverse ingredients, which are unusual and natural and provide better results on the skin, is key to winning across beauty categories. Makeup Sensory trends have resurfaced in the makeup category following the pandemic. With the ease ..read more

Verdict has been conducting the poll to study the trends in business optimism during COVID-19 as reflected by the views of companies on their future growth prospects amid the pandemic. Analysis of the poll responses recorded in September shows that optimism regarding future growth prospects increased by four percentage points to 63% from 59% in August. The respondents who were optimistic remained unchanged at 23% in September, while those very optimistic increased by four percentage points to 40%. The respondents who were pessimistic decreased by one percentage point to 9%, whereas those who w ..read more

Verdict has been conducting the poll to study the trends in business optimism during COVID-19 as reflected by the views of companies on their future growth prospects amid the pandemic. Analysis of the poll responses recorded in September shows that optimism regarding future growth prospects increased by four percentage points to 63% from 59% in August. The respondents who were optimistic remained unchanged at 23% in September, while those very optimistic increased by four percentage points to 40%. The respondents who were pessimistic decreased by one percentage point to 9%, whereas those who w ..read more

Verdict has been conducting the poll to study the trends in business optimism during COVID-19 as reflected by the views of companies on their future growth prospects amid the pandemic. Analysis of the poll responses recorded in September shows that optimism regarding future growth prospects increased by four percentage points to 63% from 59% in August. The respondents who were optimistic remained unchanged at 23% in September, while those very optimistic increased by four percentage points to 40%. The respondents who were pessimistic decreased by one percentage point to 9%, whereas those who w ..read more

Verdict has been conducting a poll to study the trends in business optimism during COVID-19 as reflected by the views of companies on their future growth prospects amid the pandemic. Analysis of the poll responses recorded in August shows that optimism regarding future growth prospects decreased by three percentage points to 59% from 61% in July, reversing the improvement made in the preceding two months. The rise in cases related to the Delta variant and inflation concerns negatively impacted optimism during the month. The respondents who were optimistic decreased by two percentage points to ..read more

Verdict has been conducting a poll to study the trends in business optimism during COVID-19 as reflected by the views of companies on their future growth prospects amid the pandemic. Analysis of the poll responses recorded in July shows that optimism regarding future growth prospects increased to 61% from 60% in June marking the second straight month of improvement in business optimism. Easing of COVID restrictions and increase in the rate of vaccination had led to improvement in business optimism in June. The respondents who were optimistic increased by two percentage points to 25% in July, w ..read more

Verdict has been conducting a poll to study the trends in business optimism during COVID-19 as reflected by the views of companies on their future growth prospects amid the pandemic. Analysis of the poll responses recorded in June shows that optimism regarding future growth prospects improved to 60% from 59% in May. The respondents who were optimistic increased by two percentage points to 23% in June, while those very optimistic decreased by one percentage point to 37%. The respondents who were pessimistic remained unchanged at 10% in June, while those who were very pessimistic decreased to 15 ..read more

Verdict has been conducting a poll to study the trends in business optimism during COVID-19 as reflected by the views of companies on their future growth prospects amid the pandemic. Analysis of the poll responses recorded in May shows that optimism regarding future growth prospects dipped marginally to 59% from 60% in April. While the percentage of respondents who were optimistic decreased by two percentage points to 21% in May, the very optimistic percentage increased by one percentage point to 38%. The respondents who were pessimistic remained unchanged at 10% in May, while those who were v ..read more

The pace of automation and technology deployment is only expected to increase over the next few years as businesses aim to digitalise their operations. Verdict has conducted a poll to assess people’s views on what percentage of their jobs could be done by technology today. Analysis of the poll results shows a mixed response, with 41% of the respondents believing that technology could perform more than 60% of their job. While 24% opined that technology could perform 81%-100% of their job, 17% believe that it could perform 61% to 80% of their job. A lesser 15% opined that 41%-60% of their job co ..read more