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Healthcare information is both massive and highly complex. According to management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, patients will generate an estimated gigabyte of health data every day by 2020, from MRI scans to clinical trials. This flood of information represents both a challenge and an opportunity for healthcare companies that have the big data skills.

Privacy legislation for online activities is long overdue. Most consumers welcome it because they hope it will help protect their data. However, from a corporate perspective, privacy legislation opens the door for more compliance lawsuits brought on by shareholders, especially for technology companies.

Thanks to advances in blockchain technologies, raising capital may soon get much easier. When combined with asset tokenization, blockchain technology provides a new way to raise capital that can speed up the dealmaking process, provide private companies with liquidity, and tap into new investor opportunities.

The mobile revolution hasn’t just changed our personal lives—it’s also improving the way that people work and do business. According to a 2016 survey, managers and executives report that smartphone use in the workplace has made their employees more productive by an average of 34 percent.

For aspiring entrepreneurs and startup companies, knowing how and when to raise capital for their businesses can be a challenging endeavor. This challenge only becomes compounded when you consider the dynamic digital landscape that all companies are required to navigate. Now more than ever, there is a growing need for companies to be able to provide secure and easily accessible information to their potential investors while minimizing lead-times through seamless virtual data exchanges.

Public works departments oversee many services critical to local communities. Additionally, inadequate planning and organization could lead to disruptions in the delivery of water, sewage, or electrical services. Given the importance of these public services, there are many rules and regulations in place to ensure proper compliance.

Although cloud computing got its start in the 1960's, it's only been in the past ten years that the corporate world began to truly engage with its capacities and gain from its values. Further, cloud-based document management software (DMS) processing is expected to drive an even bigger cloud expansion, generating over US$ 11 Billion by 2028. The growth is because the opportunities offered by DMS to safely and securely manage M&A, IPO and fundraising materials make it the rising star in the corporate development sector.

There has been a great deal of merger and acquisition activity within the healthcare industry this year. These deals include mergers between hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, biomedical firms, and an array of other healthcare-oriented technology companies.

Summer may be almost over, but there’s still time to get in a beach read or two. If you have the bandwidth to pick up a book during the last few weeks of August, why not optimize your reading time by combining business with pleasure?