A new revolution has already been announced, even if you have been skeptical about the voice technology before, the figures are quite eloquent. Canalys reported 187% worldwide market growth in smart speaker shipments in the second quarter of 2018 and 137% growth is predicted for the 2019. So a new eon of voice-enabled devices can be regarded open, and the former trend of voice technology implementation can already be acknowledged as a major shift happened in the digital world recently.

2019 Eventbrite Pulse Survey, has found out that 65% of the questioned creators see reaching new attendees as one of the greatest challenges lately. The growing competition for attendees is admitted as the factor having the biggest impact on event sphere in 2019 by almost 40% of the respondents. So the growing competition increases the cost of a single customer gaining, making it much more difficult to involve him and retain. Since the attendees are those who pay the bills, driving them is the major concern of event creators.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) estimated that up to 40% of the food produced in the US is wasted, which results in a $218 billion annual loss. The experts consider that to a great extent it’s due to the problems within the supply chain. The specialists often lack adequate data for effective decision-making. Thus, approximately one-third of fresh food is spoiled prematurely, and it results in the increased costs for the farmers, shippers, retailers and, of course, consumers.

Modern logistics and supply chain processes are being continuously reshaped nowadays. Transformations taking place start from the very core and result in more refined and fast logistics procedures and the way they are managed.

The complexity of processes and constantly growing demand for logistics services determine the major factors influencing the approach to the supply chain issues. They are efficiency and speed, which are able to provide tremendous competitive and business advantages to the enterprises if properly organized. And it actually does not matter if it’s a manufacturing corporation, a logistics company or some kind of a startup related the supply chain issues.

Today one can say that the modern world runs on software, and will be quite right. Can you just imagine, the number of devices worldwide has already exceeded 9 trillion? In our time software and mobile app developers are in fact the architects shaping the future.

In the minds of a majority of people the term «business travel» evokes an attractive picture of business class flights, luxury hotels, and pleasant pastime at a corporate dinner with men in elegant business suits.

Digitizing has penetrated all the spheres of modern life and changed them once and forever.

According to the Bitkom investigation, the inspiration for 25% of travels comes from the internet today, comparison platforms, advertising, social networks, and travel blogs benefit much for this. 64% of tourists study trip reports of other travelers before making their final decision on the destination.

Hello dear colleagues and those who work with iOS. Most of you have definitely dealt with a net and parsed data from JSON. There are plenty of data parsing software, libraries and tools, which can be used for the purpose. Some of them are simple and some are complex. Frankly speaking, I have been parsing by hand for a long time, not entrusting the process to any side library or json parser. I should admit there were certain advantages in the process.

Digital presence, digital marketing, and digital sales are nowadays the core components of business success. In case you deal with events, their arrangement and ticket distribution, you cannot anymore do without the digitalized experience in this sphere. Tickets are actually the lifeblood of any event and to make it live and successful, you should find the best way to sell tickets online.

In 2018 e-commerce has demonstrated the record-breaking numbers of global sales. Around 8 billion US dollars were transacted in the USA just on a single Cyber Monday. The experts predict the fastest and constant online marketplace development in the next few years, making electronic commerce the main global retail channel. Actually, we have now come to the point when the cutting-edge technologies and the growing digitalization are fundamentally changing the way the ecommerce is conducted.