Investments in technology are on the rise; adoption of new technologies in the mid-market gains speed

The Change Management Institute (CMI) 2015 Conference will investigate emerging trends in organisational change. The conference has assembled a program of international thought leaders in change to explore new concepts and challenge conventional thinking in a shared learning forum - spanning the globe.

Pure Strategies, a leading sustainability consulting firm with expertise in helping businesses build and enhance sustainability initiatives, is pleased to announce the release of its 2015 product sustainability research report, Advancing on the Path to Product Sustainability. This second Pure Strategies report on product sustainability programs is based on surveys with more than 150 companies across the globe.

Honeywell Survey Shows Consumer Appetite for Aerosols Grows As Outdated Notions Fade

Key enabling technologies such as gesture recognition, image recognition and natural language processing help boost customer experience

By Merrick Kingston, Principal Analyst, IHS Technology

Key points:

• By 2019, the number of media-enabled devices will be equivalent to 5 for every household on the planet.
• With Smart TVs we are finally seeing the beginnings of market consolidation, and in particular, consolidation around software ecosystems that have existed for years.
• Apple's hegemony in the DMA space looks more uncertain that ever.
• Device ubiquity is allowing the online media industry to establish an ever-larger footprint across the landscape of connected hardware.
• In the US, across its own subscription base, Netflix now oversees an addressable market of nearly 300m devices, which accounts for 31% of the country's total connected installed base. This is an astoundingly large footprint, and as Netflix's addressable base pushes toward 500m devices by 2019

Annual Zebra Technologies Global Shopper Study finds one-third of shoppers believe they are better connected to real-time information than in-store associates

Kaspersky Lab study reveals three-quarters of consumers feel unable to protect themselves from cyber-threats today

The specter of Netflix has pay TV operators spending more on content as traditional viewing methods decrease

As smart mobile devices take their hold on the general population and make shopping easier through apps, mobile commerce is on track to grow 300% faster than traditional eCommerce by 2016.
Coupofy.com, a leading database of online coupon codes has observed mCommerce's growth firsthand. In 2014 there were 560 million mobile coupon users who redeemed 16 billion coupons, this is expected to rise to 1.05 billion users and 31 billion coupons by 2019!

64% of British Internet Users Think The "Right to Be Forgotten" Should Be a Human Right, Yet more than 4 in 10 Believe it Allows for Censorship

Multi-Country Ask.fm Study Reveals Evolving Teen and Parent Attitudes and Usage When it Comes to Social Networks