Category: News

Four-fifths of all business revenue growth is expected to come from digital offerings and operations over the next three years, making data absolutely critical to businesses worldwide. Already valued at US$190 billion2 in 2019, the data analytics industry is forecast to grow to a staggering USD274 billion by 20223 alone as marketers, advertisers, researchers and more scramble to better understand their customers’ needs, desires, and behaviours. It’s the continuation of a long-standing trend driven by a global shift towards digital space.

Globally, 136 million children have severe attention difficulties which in many cases presents as a diagnosis of ADHD. In Australia alone, ADHD costs the economy $20 billion a year.

Organisational cyber attacks are up by 450% this year. as hackers take advantage of vulnerabilities in a more complex, remote workforce.

“Asymmetric investing is intuitively simple; produce above average returns with below average drawdowns.  To do this, you need to find good investments, and don’t lose money along the way of realising those good investments” – Kenny Arnott

Australian data analytics firm Pureprofile (ASX:PPL) is ready for sizeable growth following a recapitalisation of the business.

The company has opened a Share Purchase Plan (SPP) seeking to raise $3.75 million to support Marenica’s ongoing exploration on the 730km2 Namibian tenement, as well as at several other key sites.

A series of internal changes has left market research and data analytics company Pureprofile (ASX:PPL) ready to benefit from the massive growth forecast for the sector. Industry revenue is expected to grow to US$274.3 billion ($386.6 billion in AUD) by 2022, up from only US$189.1 billion ($266.5 billion in AUD) in 2019, based on Statista data.Pureprofile is looking to tap into that rapid expansion under the direction of newly-appointed CEO Martin Filz.

The news headlines in March were dire. Forecasted peak unemployment was going to hit 20%, we were facing the impending doom of a ‘September cliff’ and major Banks were forecasting property prices to fall by 30%. These frightening headlines were coupled with images of Centrelink queues out the door and around the corner.

A few months ago, I made my case in a video interview with Livewire as to ‘Why the bulls are wrong’. Last week, Livewire reached out to me last week as part of a special series, to expand on my view of what is wrong about the bull case. You may have seen some of my summarised responses in the wire Why you should fear the big bad bear by Patrick Poke.

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With cyber attacks happening every 39 seconds, Ginni Rommerty, the Chairman of IBM, says cybercrime is the single greatest threat to any company. By 2021, cybercrime is estimated to cost the global economy an estimated $6 trillion annually.

As the world’s population becomes more urbanised and modernised, the demand for electricity is forecast to grow exponentially. At the same time, governments are moving to reduce emissions, particularly from coal-fired power stations.