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Post Event Analysis - Ryder Cup 2025
An analysis of the recent 2025 Ryder Cup, including a look at its sponsorship portfolio, broadcasters, attendance and ticketing. In the UK, 5 million viewers in total watched the three-day event on Sky Sports. Key broadcasters for the 2025 Ryder Cup included Sky, BBC Sport, and NBC. NBC have retained broadcast rights of the Ryder Cup in the US since 1991. The tournament showed contrasting TV viewership on either side of the Atlantic; In the US, the final round bought...
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Global Liability Insurance Market Outlook: Regulatory Trends, Regional Overview and Competitive Landscape
GlobalData’s 2025 Global Liability Insurance Market report delivers comprehensive insights, analysis, and forecasts for the global and regional liability insurance industry. The report examines market dynamics, trends, and drivers, providing a detailed outlook for insurers, brokers, and investors. The report covers key performance indicators such as written premiums and claims for the review period (2020-2024) and provides forecast data through 2029. It also highlights emerging trends, technological developments, regulatory frameworks, and competitive landscapes shaping the liability insurance sector worldwide. How...
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Industrial Robots: Trends and Innovations
Industrial Robots move from automation to autonomy Industrial robotics is entering a new phase of transformation as intelligent, mobile, and humanoid systems reshape automation across sectors. Evolving beyond traditional caged robots, next-generation platforms integrate AI, computer vision, digital twins, and advanced actuation to enable adaptive, flexible, and connected operations. Automotive, electronics, and aerospace remain core adopters, while healthcare, construction, and logistics are emerging growth frontiers. Companies such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Tesla are piloting humanoids for assembly and logistics, ABB,...
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Oil and Gas Sector Strategies in Renewable Fuels
The oil and gas sector currently faces numerous challenges, but the pressure to decarbonize and diversify its products is among the largest. Low-carbon fuels, such as renewable diesel, SAFs, and synthetic fuels, offer a route to decarbonization that enables the industry to continue providing products and services to its existing consumer industries while diversifying its assets and reducing the risk of stranded assets. Despite mounting pressures, many oil and gas companies have rolled back investments in renewables, shifting their corporate...
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Bancassurance Market Trends and Analysis by Region, Competitive Landscape and Forecast to 2029
GlobalData’s '2025 Global Bancassurance Market Report’ insight analysis report provides in-depth market analysis, information, and insights into the global and regional bancassurance market. This provides a detailed outlook of the Global bancassurance market. It provides values for key performance indicators such as written premiums and claims during the review period (2020–24) and forecast period (2025–29). The report gives a comprehensive overview of the global and regional bancassurance space, key lines of business, key trends, drivers, challenges, regulatory overview, and developments...
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Next-Generation Fuels: Market Outlook, Trends and Opportunities
This report examines the transition from waste oils to next-generation fuels, assessing the scaling of renewable diesel, SAF, ethanol, and biodiesel alongside the emergence of synthetic fuels, ammonia, and methanol, and highlighting the feedstock shift toward residues and algae as the sector looks beyond 2030. Global transport is under pressure to decarbonize, with heavy-duty vehicles, aviation, and shipping proving difficult to electrify. This report explores how alternative fuels are scaling, from today’s reliance on renewable diesel, SAF, ethanol, and FAME...
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Cloud-Based Enterprise AI Platforms: Competitive Landscape Assessment
Cloud-based enterprise AI platforms are becoming a central foundation for how organizations deploy artificial intelligence across applications and business processes. As enterprises look to operationalize predictive AI, generative AI, and AI agents at scale, demand is rising for platforms that simplify development while supporting governance, security, and enterprise-grade deployment. These platforms bring together tools that enable AI experts, data scientists, and citizen developers to build, train, deploy, and manage machine learning models and AI agents in cloud environments. Increasingly, they...
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Autonomous Drones: Market Trends and Innovations
Autonomous drones are moving from risk reduction to driving operational efficiency, with industries adopting them as critical infrastructure rather than pilot projects. Mining operators are deploying drone-in-a-box ODAS platforms for safety and monitoring, energy firms are using AI-guided drones for real-time emissions detection, and retailers such as Walmart are scaling delivery fleets under supportive frameworks like the FAA’s BVLOS sandbox and China’s real-name drone registration policy. Momentum is reinforced by investment and innovation. Anduril’s funding expands defense autonomy, while Skydio’s...
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Managed Hybrid Cloud Services: Competitive Landscape Assessment
Evaluation of leading managed hybrid cloud providers (BT, DXC, IBM, Lumen, Orange, Rackspace, Telefonica, T-Systems) and others, with focus on FinOps, AI, security, and sovereign cloud【120†source】 As demand for cloud services soared, providers of traditional hosted services expanded their catalogs to meet market requirements for migration and management support. This product class focuses on a mix of enterprise-focused companies that run the gamut from telco-based providers and cloud specialists to system integrators (SIs). The managed hybrid cloud service providers' value...