66% of organizations have plans to deploy 5G by 2020, according to a new 5G use case and adoption survey by Gartner.

With AI continuing to gain usage among marketing professionals, IBM announced a new report from IBM Watson Marketing identifying a new breed of marketers coming to the forefront.

Nearly 30% of business leaders believe that global economic growth will decline in the next 12 months, approximately six times the level of 5% last year, a record jump in pessimism.

Of the 29 technologies on Gartner’s new Hype Cycle, eight are entering the Slope of Enlightenment and climbing toward the Plateau of Productivity.

Eight in 10 corporate legal departments are unprepared to support their organizations’ digital initiatives, according to Gartner.

Shipments of wearable devices in EMEA grew 55% year over year to 6.6 million units in 2018Q3, according to IDC.

The global economy as a whole is expected to slow in 2019 as G7 countries return to long-run average growth rates, according to new projections from PwC in its latest Global Economy Watch.

A new report from Juniper Research has revealed that over 62 million vehicles will be capable of Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication by 2023, rising from just over 1.1 million in 2019.

More than 87 percent of organizations are classified as having low business intelligence and analytics maturity, according to a survey by Gartner.

Americans 55 and older are the fastest-growing group of electronic wearable users in the US, according to eMarketer’s forecast, largely due to the devices’ enhanced health features.

A majority of finance departments expect to deploy one of several top emerging technologies by 2020, according to a worldwide survey by Gartner.

New findings from Juniper Research forecast that AI-powered chatbots will soon become the first responders for citizens’ engagements with healthcare providers.

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.6 million units in the fourth quarter of 2018, a 4.3 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2017, according to preliminary results by Gartner.

Global shipments of wearable devices are forecast to reach 125.3 million units in 2018, up 8.5% from 2017, according to IDC.

According to the latest estimates from IDC, five large industry groups have spent a total of $37.5 billion on industry cloud solutions in 2018.

A new report from Juniper Research has found that there will be an estimated 417 million hearables in use by 2022.

Worldwide spending on AR/VR is forecast to be nearly $20.4 billion in 2019, an increase of 68.8% over the $12.1 billion IDC expects was spent in 2018.

The global market for technical consumer goods (TCG) exceeded the one-trillion mark for the first time in 2018 with sales of €1.01 trillion, according to GfK.

The global market for consumer electronics ended the year 2018 with a six percent increase in sales while total sales of around €138 billion were recorded, according to GfK.

Juniper’s latest research found that users who viewed games videos were more likely to subscribe to a greater number of SVOD services than the average user.

Concerns over transparency and brand safety are driving an increasing number of advertisers to seek more control when buying ads programmatically, according to eMarketer.

Unit shipments for the global personal computing devices market, comprised of traditional PCs and tablets, declined 3.9% in 2018, according to IDC.

As more organizations embrace digital business, infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders will need to evolve their strategies and skills to provide an agile infrastructure for their business, according to Gartner.

The combined AR/VR headset market grew 9.4% year over year in the third quarter of 2018 (3Q18), according to IDC.

A new study from Juniper Research has found that annual online payment fraud losses from eCommerce, airline ticketing, money transfer and banking services, will reach $48 billion by 2023; up from the $22 billion in losses projected for 2018.

Worldwide shipments of wearable devices will reach 225 million in 2019, an increase of 25.8 percent from 2018, according to Gartner.

The market value for ITS deployed in public transport operations in Europe was € 1.40 billion in 2017, according to new research published by Berg Insights.

Worldwide spending on robotics systems and drones will total $115.7 billion in 2019, an increase of 17.6% over 2018, according to IDC.

eMarketer’s latest forecast report shows that use of ad blockers in the UK is stabilizing, with growth slowing to single digits this year.

European spending on technologies and services that enable the digital transformation is forecast to reach $378.2 billion in 2022, according to IDC.