March 2018 – teknospire

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March 2018
Open Source Software

Open Source Software – Adoption, Initiatives, Value Proposition, Risks, Impact

Have you read the book written by Eric S. Raymond “The Cathedral and the Bazaar abbreviated as CatB” on software engineering methods?It’s an interesting piece where the author is differentiating between the two kinds of software development. One is the building a cathedral referred to the closed-source development that has central governance, software releases available only...
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Blockchain could bring in financial inclusion

Could Blockchain Bring in Financial Inclusion?

Living in an Urban city I never had issues in spending money be it cash or electronically. But when India was under the spell of Demonetization, despite having sufficient funds in my account I was not able spend them for one simple reason that – the vendors, vegetable sellers or rickshaw pullers didn’t have the...
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Why Fintech B2C and B2B solutions are more in vogue in Asia?

Preamble The global Fintech trends show an investment of £25.6bn in 2015 rising to £27bn by 2016. The global Fintech investments doubled in the period ending Q2 ’17 and reached $8.4billion. Similarly, in the period ending Q4 ’17, the figure was $8.7billion across 307 deals with annual global Fintech investment touching $31billion in 2017. FINTECH...
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