Misconceptions about banking versus consulting careers

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Misconceptions about banking versus consulting careers

Should you choose banking or consulting as a career? And if you're in banking already, should you quit for a career in consulting?

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Google Cloud teams up with Deloitte, KPMG

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Google Cloud teams up with Deloitte, KPMG

Google Cloud rolled out new tools and services to help providers and payers advance data interoperability in advance of upcoming federal deadlines.

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First Consulting and Valcon join forces to form 500-strong group

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First Consulting and Valcon join forces to form 500-strong group

Scandinavian Valcon and First Consulting (including First Technology) have decided to join forces as part of their journey to become a leading North-Western European consulting & technology company.

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Quantum computers will create better versions of Alexa and Siri

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Quantum computers will create better versions of Alexa and Siri

Alexa can tell you the weather, turn on your lights and even tell you a joke. But if you really want to have a meaningful conversation with a computer, it is probably going to have to be a quantum computer.

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Wipro Infrastructure Engineering to acquire industrial automation firm PARI

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Wipro Infrastructure Engineering to acquire industrial automation firm PARI

Wipro Infrastructure Engineering (WIN) said it would acquire Precision Automation and Robotics India (PARI).

WIN’s industrial automation business has signed a definitive agreement for this.

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Trinity Life Sciences Acquires BluePrint  Research Group

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Trinity Life Sciences Acquires BluePrint Research Group

Trinity Life Sciences, the leading commercial partner to the life sciences industry, announced the acquisition of New Jersey-based BluePrint Research Group.

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NortonLifeLock pays $360 million to acquire Avira

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NortonLifeLock pays $360 million to acquire Avira

NortonLifeLock, formerly known as Symantec, has agreed to buy German antivirus company Avira from the Bahrain-based Investcorp Technology Partners. The deal is reportedly worth about $360 million and will be all-cash.

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TCS expands presence in Texas

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TCS expands presence in Texas

Technology services firm Tata Consultancy Services has expanded its business operations in Austin, Texas with the construction of a new facility. It has doubled its presence to over 400 professionals in the city and added to its employee count of over 5,500 across the state

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McKinsey's guide to the best places to work in banking until 2024

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McKinsey's guide to the best places to work in banking until 2024

When strategy consulting firm McKinsey & Co. writes a 'Global Banking Review' it's usually to show off its expertise and to talk about things like building 'productivity engines.'

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Lessons In Cybersecurity From A Hotbed Of Digital Growth

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Lessons In Cybersecurity From A Hotbed Of Digital Growth

The Asia-Pacific region, home to two-thirds of the world’s population, is one of the fastest growing areas for digital technology and also a frequent target for cybercrime

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 Capco acquires Andrion AG

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Capco acquires Andrion AG

Capco continues to enhance its offerings to clients through the acquisition of the Swiss digital and technology-focused consultancy

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Governments And Artificial Intelligence, Policy And Investment

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Governments And Artificial Intelligence, Policy And Investment

Over the last couple of years, it has become increasingly clear that many democratic governments have been taking a closer look at artificial intelligence (AI), both from a policy standpoint and as something to help their economies of the future

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A German startup has bought a chunk of Uber

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A German startup has bought a chunk of Uber

Berlin-based startup Sennder has acquired Uber’s European freight business in an all-stock transaction that will see the freight forwarder extend its dominance in the European market.

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Why Jacobs Is Buying A Majority Stake In PA Consulting

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Why Jacobs Is Buying A Majority Stake In PA Consulting

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc and PA Consulting — a leading innovation and transformation consulting firm — announced recently that they will form a strategic partnership in which Jacobs will acquire a 65% stake in PA. This investment places an enterprise value of PA at £1.825 billion

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Guidehouse Lands DoD Financial Mgmt Support Contract

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Guidehouse Lands DoD Financial Mgmt Support Contract

The Department of Defense has awarded Guidehouse a five-year contract to help modernize DoD's financial management processes. Guidehouse said it will provide audit remediation, financial management improvement and data analysis to provide operations support to the deputy chief financial officer (DCFO).

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PA Consulting and Jacobs announce agreement

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PA Consulting and Jacobs announce agreement

PA Consulting (PA), the consultancy that's Bringing Ingenuity to Life, today announced that global technical and professional services leader, Jacobs (NYSE: J) has signed an agreement to invest in PA for a 65% shareholding in the company

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Emerging AI Will Drive The Next Wave Of Big Tech Monopolies

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Emerging AI Will Drive The Next Wave Of Big Tech Monopolies

In October 2020 the US House Antitrust Subcommittee, chaired by Congressman David Cicilline, published its report on competition in digital markets. It conducted a full review of the market from top to bottom, focusing on the dominance of the giants in the industry: Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google.

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IBM Acquires Instana To Advance Its Hybrid Cloud

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IBM Acquires Instana To Advance Its Hybrid Cloud

IBM is acquiring Instana, an applications performance management startup. The acquisition represents IBM's transitions from software and services to a company fully focussed on hybrid cloud management by focusing on hybrid cloud, big data, and AI capabilities.

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5G And AI: Complementary Technologies Now And Into The Future

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5G And AI: Complementary Technologies Now And Into The Future

There is a lot of buzz in the technology sector around AI and 5G and their transformative potential. What is interesting about both technologies is that they are universally applicable across many industries and are likely to change the way many of them operate.

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Teachable Machine From Google Makes It Easy To Train And Deploy ML Models

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Teachable Machine From Google Makes It Easy To Train And Deploy ML Models

Teachable Machine is an experiment from Google to bring a no-code and low-code approach to training AI models. Anyone with a modern browser and webcam can quickly train a model with no prior knowledge or experience with AI.

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