March 2021

Loot boxes originated from loot systems in MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) in the Asian market, and from the monetisation of F2P mobile gaming. As players in Asian countries often did not have the funds to purchase full-cost titles, developers began to introduce loot boxes as a method to guarantee monetisation from a game that would otherwise not generate revenue from significant base sales.

The insurance industry will evolve dramatically because of the impact of insurtech. This is an industry with well-established traditional providers, who will have to acclimatise to quickly shifting familiar landscapes. The change is already in motion, as the emergence of successful, digitally native disruptive companies attests. 

It is estimated that in the next decade, the number of people living in urban areas will rise significantly. While this will have a myriad of consequences for the world, nowhere are these consequences more apparent than when it comes to vehicle usage, where a growth in urban population figures is reflected, not just through an increase in the number of urban vehicles, but also through the concurrent rises in congestion, lost productivity hours, and harmful carbon emissions.

Evina recently won a gold award in our Future Digital Awards programme.

We interviewed their team to find our more about their award-winning financial clearing solution, and how it can help combat the issues arising from fraud.

Cars are now becoming more than a form of transport, but items of technological convenience that users are familiar with at home or at work. They need to include all the technology to make them intuitive, entertaining, informative and safe. This means that cars have to interact with a wider transport infrastructure around them, other vehicles and road users, as well as value-added services around them. This requires not just co-ordination between technologies, but also legislature, insurance, media and information services.

Thales recently won a number of awards in our Future Digital Awards programme.

We interviewed their team to find our more about their award-winning cellular IoT solution, and how it can help operators secure their IoT connections.