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title: Technology news around the world - Week 04, 2019
description: Here are the latest technology stories on Digital Commerce, Cloud, Big Data, Enterprise Collaboration and Office 365.
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# [Technology news around the world - Week 04, 2019](https://blog.e-zest.com/technology-news-around-the-world-week-04-2019)

 Written by [Corporate](https://blog.e-zest.com/author/corporate) | Jan 25, 2019, 10:28:19 AM

**Global e-commerce sales grow 18% in 2018**

Global e-commerce grew at a faster clip last year - 18.0% - than online sales in the more saturated US market, which Internet Retailer expects to increase 15.3% from 2017. Consumers worldwide purchased $2.86 trillion on the web in 2018, up from $2.43 trillion the previous year, according to our early projections.

Read more: [https://hubs.ly/H0gkh6F0](https://hubs.ly/H0gkh6F0)

**AWS launches Neo-AI, an open-source tool for tuning ML models**

Amazon’s cloud computing unit today announced the launch of Neo-AI, a new open-source project. The new tool takes some of the technologies that the company developed and used for its SageMaker Neo machine learning service and brings them to the open-source ecosystem.

Read more: [https://hubs.ly/H0gkh710](https://hubs.ly/H0gkh710)

**Common missteps on the path to enterprise mobility**

In virtually every industry, mobility is helping organizations achieve key strategic goals. Yet, even as more organizations embrace and priorities a mobility strategy, many are falling short of their desired outcomes and goals. Learn about common missteps to avoid them.

Read more: [https://hubs.ly/H0gkfzQ0](https://hubs.ly/H0gkfzQ0)

**How Data Analytics backed by AI and ML is transforming the BFSI sector?**

The financial industry is a highly regulated and data-intensive industry. The banks are exploring, experimenting and investing in the data analytics use cases backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ ML).

Read more: [https://hubs.ly/H0gkh7x0](https://hubs.ly/H0gkh7x0) 

**2019 is the year to make the shift to a modern desktop**

At the outset of 2019, we all have personal goals, but most of us also have professional goals for the year ahead. For those of us in IT, this is a time to think about how you deliver the modern, empowering workplace for your business in a cloud-connected world.

Read more: [https://hubs.ly/H0gkfBl0](https://hubs.ly/H0gkfBl0)

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