The online education market is seriously big business. Forbes valued it at $165 billion in 2016 and predicted that it’d be worth as much as $240 billion by 2023. The recruitment industry is even bigger, bringing in $150 billion in 2016 in the USA alone. However, both sectors are also riddled with inefficiencies and are ripe for disruption by the correct technology, properly applied. The Open Source University believes that it can transform two industries in dire need of overhaul. The need for a better system is obvious to anyone who has applied for a job, taken a cour ...

With the World Cup just around the corner everyone’s thoughts are turning to football. For many, those thoughts are also turning to gambling. Something to make the less exciting games just a little more interesting. Online gambling is a huge global industry. The market was already worth $30 billion by 2013, and this figure looks set to double by 2020. By being able to use computers, and particularly phones, the idea of placing a bet has become normalised for many people who may not feel comfortable going to a casino or bookkeeper. The big trends in the industry are a ...

No business exists in isolation. Each has customers, and suppliers. Each collaborates with other businesses on new opportunities. These networks, these relationships, need to have trusted pathways to share the right data, while ensuring that other data are protected. Under the current models billions of dollars are lost each year from data leakage, limited access to the correct data and disputes over contracts. ZDNet has estimated that data leaks alone will cost the global economy $2 trillion USD by 2019. There is a golden opportunity here for the implementation of n ...

Every day more people are entering the cryptocurrency world. At time of writing the total market cap for crypto assets is around $330 billion. According to some estimates that may grow to be as large as $40 trillion by 2030. Alongside this growth comes an exploding demand for crypto financial services, and today’s banking institutions are ill-suited to cope. The Baanx ICO plans to meet this need by creating a platform for crypto-banking and fintech innovation. Baanx Chief Operating Officer Sean Salloux says that our current financial institutions are “slow, they’re ...