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Thematic Analysis
NewGlobal M&A Deals in Q1 2024 – Top Themes by Sector – Thematic intelligence
The global M&A market in Q1 2024 witnessed deals worth $613 billion, a rise of 38% compared to Q1 2024. In terms of deal volume, there was a 13% fall from 8,468 deals in Q1 2023 to 7,248 M&A deals in Q1 2024. The TMT sector led the M&A deal activity, with 2,163 deals worth $186 billion recorded in Q1 2024. Most sectors saw a year-on-year increase in deal activity in Q1 2024. Mega-deals (defined as any deal valued at...
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Thematic Analysis
NewCybersecurity – Thematic Intelligence
Cybersecurity Thematic Intelligence Report Overview The prospect of offensive attacks using artificial intelligence (AI) is prompting an increase in cybersecurity budgets as organizations try to understand the impact of generative AI on their security. Both start-ups and maturing cyber companies will be on the radar of larger cybersecurity companies looking for products and talent. Moreover, cybersecurity M&A will be a strong focus during 2024 as a small group of private equity players are buying up numerous cybersecurity companies. Buy the...
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Thematic Analysis
NewAutonomous Vehicles in Insurance – Thematic Intelligence
The primary challenges to the insurance industry relating to autonomous vehicles are largely technological and regulatory. More specifically, insurers need to understand the impact of in-car technology on collisions to accurately quantify the risk of a vehicle. They also need to understand the cost of this technology and how it is likely to change over time so that they can manage these costs. To fully understand the potential of autonomous vehicles on road safety (and ultimately insurance premiums), insurers are...
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Thematic Analysis
NewArtificial Intelligence – Executive Briefing (Third Edition) – Thematic Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Thematic Report Overview The AI market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of more than 38% between 2023 and 2030. The recent success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has influenced most of the tech giants to realign their AI priorities. While some of them have been already working on the underlying technology i.e., generative AI (GenAI), they are now rushing for an edge in the new AI era with a flurry of initiatives. The competitive landscape is evolving...
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Thematic Analysis
NewApplication Software Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Companies scoring well in the artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and cloud computing-related themes lead the thematic screen of GlobalData’s application software sector scorecard. This screen is dominated by the large US cloud vendors (Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet), but also includes leading enterprise software companies such as IBM, SAP, and Infor, as well as Apple. There have been minor score changes for companies such as Broadcom, OpenText, and Software AG due to their divestitures following recent acquisitions.
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NewAdvertising Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Advertising has been caught up in the artificial intelligence (AI) frenzy and will be one of the industries most disrupted by AI. Generative AI is reshaping advertisers’ practices through tailored, effective ads and dynamic campaigns that evolve according to consumer response. As a result, the relationship between technology, artists, and brands paying for campaigns will profoundly change over the coming years. There is a real concern that advertisers will divert their money into AI-generated art rather than paying artists and...
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NewComponent Makers Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
The component makers sector continues to struggle in the face of some significant challenges. Demand is anemic in two major areas for components: smartphones and electric vehicles (EVs). Both areas require customer investment that is not forthcoming in the face of a credit crunch caused by interest rate rises. Marginal upgrades for mobile phones and EVs that are too expensive for most means limited demand. There is light at the end of the tunnel in the industrial sector, where demand...
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Thematic Analysis
NewEnterprise Security Software Sector Scorecard, Q1 2024 Update – Thematic Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a double-edged sword in cybersecurity. It can help organizations improve their threat detection, hunting, and incident response capabilities, but adversaries can and will use AI in cyberattacks. There is every likelihood that AI will spur new merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in cybersecurity, especially of companies judged to be AI specialists. In the thematic screen of GlobalData’s enterprise security software sector scorecard, AI has a weighting of 20%, higher than any other theme.