Articles by BDO

Picture this: It's Black Friday 2027, and retail’s biggest "customer" isn't a soccer mom hunting for deals or a Gen-Z trendsetter. It's an AI agent representing 50,000 households, armed with aggregated purchasing power that would rival the largest enterprise procurement teams This agent is not looking at retailers’ brand stories, influencer pa...

The U.S. is entering a new era of trade relations, one characterized by the recalibration of trade policy, escalating duty rates, and the use of tariffs and trade policy as a negotiation tool These shifts in trade relations have pushed many retailers into reactive mode, often with limited options to change where and who they purchase goods from....

As retailers continue to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can improve their business, agentic AI represents a seismic shift. Agentic AI is autonomous intelligence that can learn and act independently Think of agentic AI as a digital employee that doesn’t have to wait for instructions. It learns, adapts, and acts on its own, presenting an ...

Without a doubt, the growth of social networking has exploded in recent years and has added value to the Internet by providing yet another exciting way for citizens all over the world to connect and interact. In fact, social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn and many smaller sites have become the preferred way many people communicate today as well as a growing business development tool.

As a growing number of enterprises transition to cloud computing, the use of the term "cloud" becomes more appropriate by the day. Just as natural clouds foreshadow weather events ranging from calm to stormy, cloud computing presents enterprise security professionals with a host of difficult challenges. However, no matter how many challenges arise, cloud computing is here to stay as part of the information-driven world environment that all enterprises work within today. ...

TO: Board of Directors of Apple, Inc. Mr. Tim Cook, Mr. Steve Jobs, Mr. William Campbell, Mr. Millard Drexler, Vice President Al Gore, Ms. Andrea Jung, Mr. Arthur Levinson, Mr. Eric Schmidt, Mr. Jerome York Board of Directors of AT&T, Inc. Mr. Randall Stephenson, Mr. William Aldinger, Mr. Gilbert Amelio, Mr. Reuben Anderson, Mr. James Blanchard, M...