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Innovation Ranking
Innovation Ranking – Meta Platforms, Inc.
Meta Platforms Inc (Meta), formerly Facebook Inc, is a provider of social networking, advertising, and business insight solutions. Through its major products Facebook, Instagram, Oculus, Messenger, and WhatsApp, the company connects people with their friends, and families, and co-workers across the world, and helps them discover new products and services from local and global businesses. It enables people to share their opinions, ideas, photos and videos, and other activities through mobile devices and personal computers with audiences ranging from their...
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Thematic Analysis
NewArtificial Intelligence – Executive Briefing (Third Edition) – Thematic Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Thematic Report Overview The AI market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of more than 38% between 2023 and 2030. The recent success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has influenced most of the tech giants to realign their AI priorities. While some of them have been already working on the underlying technology i.e., generative AI (GenAI), they are now rushing for an edge in the new AI era with a flurry of initiatives. The competitive landscape is evolving...
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Thematic Analysis
NewMusic, Film, and TV Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Amazon retains its lead on the thematic screen of GlobalData’s music, film, and TV sector scorecard. Since the last quarter, Tencent has fallen from second position to fifth as Netflix, Disney, and Apple climbed to second, third, and fourth places, respectively.
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Thematic Analysis
NewEcommerce Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Consumers expect a seamless digital experience when shopping online, and central to this is a safe and secure payment process. Digital payments is an important theme for ecommerce companies, with all of the top five companies in the thematic screen of GlobalData’s ecommerce sector scorecard scoring at least 4 out of 5 in this theme. Additionally, the top three ranked companies (Visa, Mastercard, and Klarna) all provide consumer payment services, highlighting the importance of this aspect of ecommerce.
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Thematic Analysis
NewPublishing Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
AI continues to disrupt the publishing industry, and thus, the theme appears to be where the most progress is happening. To cope with the winds of change, publishers are holding AI-related conferences, building AI teams, and enhancing their offerings with AI, including launching new AI features like chatbots to improve user experiences.
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Thematic Analysis
NewAdvertising Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Advertising has been caught up in the artificial intelligence (AI) frenzy and will be one of the industries most disrupted by AI. Generative AI is reshaping advertisers’ practices through tailored, effective ads and dynamic campaigns that evolve according to consumer response. As a result, the relationship between technology, artists, and brands paying for campaigns will profoundly change over the coming years. There is a real concern that advertisers will divert their money into AI-generated art rather than paying artists and...
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Thematic Analysis
NewGaming Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Tencent remains on top of the thematic screen of GlobalData’s gaming sector scorecard. It scores 5 out of 5 across six of the 10 themes that matter most in this market, including mobile gaming, social media, ecommerce, esports, game development, and China impact. It scores 4 out of 5 for the artificial intelligence (AI), metaverse, and cloud gaming themes. The only theme in which Tencent does not score well is regulation, but it is far from alone. All gaming companies...
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Thematic Analysis
NewSocial Media Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Gen Z favorite TikTok has grown very quickly over the last few years, reaching more than a billion users. However, there are signs that TikTok's growth has begun to plateau for the first time since its launch in 2016. It has also been caught in the US-China geopolitical tensions, with US lawmakers introducing legislation that would ban app stores from distributing TikTok unless ByteDance, its Chinese owner, divests control of the popular video-sharing platform. In the meantime, Instagram's push into...
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Thematic Analysis
NewApplication Software Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Companies scoring well in the artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and cloud computing-related themes lead the thematic screen of GlobalData’s application software sector scorecard. This screen is dominated by the large US cloud vendors (Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet), but also includes leading enterprise software companies such as IBM, SAP, and Infor, as well as Apple. There have been minor score changes for companies such as Broadcom, OpenText, and Software AG due to their divestitures following recent acquisitions.