(FS.8.02) Future Of Trades

Mobile operators are investing about $160 billion annually to upgrade their networks to 5G, a technology that is expected to add a value of 2.2 million dollars to the world economy in the next 15 years.
The United States warned China on Saturday against threatening its neighbours' sovereignty and said Washington was investing in new military technology in the next five years to keep Asia stable.
The Autonomous Technology Group will implement Daimler Trucks' effort to put highly automated trucks onto the roads within a decade, investing more than EUR500 million.
Utilities in some states are investing in new technology specifically to decrease the cost of damage caused by storms, earlier this year Avangrid announced it will invest $500 million into smart meters throughout its service territories.
China is investing $145 million to become a world leader in superconductor-based computing, a technology that could make semiconductor-powered supercomputers and datacenter servers obsolete.
Disruptive CDMOs like Wuxi Biologics and Samsung Biologics are investing in single-use technologies whereas technology companies like Dassault Systemes and GE are providing IIoT solutions for key manufacturing processes.
The technology landscape for AI is complex and will remain so through 2023, with many IT vendors investing heavily in AI, variants of AI coexisting, and new AI-based tolls and services emerging.
The European Union has launched a Flagship on Quantum Technologies to promote research into and development of quantum technology throughout Europe: The EU will be investing a total of EUR1 billion over the next ten years.
Although the technology used within this software will grow, improve and become more rapid over the next few years, businesses from all over the globe are already investing in making RPA their primary form of handling repetitive workloads.
Investing in a railway fit for the twenty-first century will help the UK become a world leader in rail technology, boosting exports and skills.
Investing in new and improved information technology and robotic process automation (RPA), talent shortages, and trade protectionism are predicted to be the top trends in service delivery for 2018 and the next several years.
Technology spending in China will reach $234 billion in 2018 as the Chinese government and enterprises further drive necessary reforms by investing in technologies for digital innovation and ecosystem expansion.
Ceres makes the case that the opportunities for investing in early-stage clean energy technology companies have changed significantly and favorably in recent years to offer the potential for greater risk-adjusted returns in the sector than ever before.
Any G20 country that is still investing in coal and nuclear power plants is wasting their money on technology that will not be competitive in coming years.
India is expected to present ERP suppliers an important marketplace as manufacturing companies are significantly investing in technology solutions to improve their manufacturing operations.
Cities investing in smart technology will waste $341 billion by 2025 if deployment is carried out in a fragmented manner.
Most (80%) airports will be investing in sensor technology over the next three years and 79% will invest in cloud services.
According to a report by Gartner, an information technology research company, consumers will lead the way by increasingly investing in smart-home solutions.
A commitment to support global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the introduction of emissions trading will give the private sector an incentive to invest in clean technology.
In the US, fee-free digital trading app Robinhood is taking the market by storm: Established players have been forced to rewrite their business models by abolishing commissions, as the app - currently serving 10 million users - is viewed as a company which could potentially go public in 2020.
The crowdfunding market as a whole will hit $90 billion in volume by 2020.

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Last updated: 28 May 2020