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Mobile apps optimum pricing across countries using AI
How Country-Level Price Optimization Increased Revenue by 1.7x and Conversions by 3x What is the right global price for a mobile app? At first, the answer may seem simple. If the product, functionality, and brand are the same, why not use the same pricing logic across countries? That was exactly the challenge in this case. Several mobile applications were sold internationally, but pricing was largely standardized across markets. The company wanted to understand whether a more
Jul 24, 20253 min read


AI & Geopolitics
George Boretos, Founder & CEO of FutureUP, gave an interview to the Geopolitica Journal, one of the top geopolitics journals in the...
Nov 1, 20231 min read


Predicting the Growth of the Global Market using AI
Predicting the growth of the Global market for 17 years with more than 97.5%👍accuracy ➡️ AI-based Forecasting of the Global Market📈 ➡️ High forecasting accuracy for 17 years!🔥 ➡️ AI model proved resilient to the many crises of the past two decades Download the case presentation: A published forecast was able to predict the evolution of the Global Market from 2006-2022, with high accuracy, exceeding 97.5%. This is an even bigger accomplishment if you consider the many chall
Sep 4, 20231 min read


Predicting a Global Crisis using AI
Successfully giving an early warning for the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the subsequent Global Recession of 2009. Following the 2008 credit crunch, the global economy entered a serious recession, marking negative growth rates in 2009 for the first time in 60 years. The initial efforts of the G20 to reinitiate the economy through the deployment of extensive stimulus packages, although successful in the beginning, resulted in a significant rise in public debts challengi
Sep 1, 20232 min read


The new home of the Forecasting Net
Hi, I am George Boretos, owner of the Forecasting Net Blog and Founder of FutureUP! Starting from August 2023, the Forecasting Net...
Aug 24, 20231 min read


The Forecasting Net
The Forecasting Net is an affiliate think tank of more than 1600 professionals, futurists, and simple enthusiasts interested in AI,...
Apr 14, 20231 min read


Predicting the growth of the Global Market
Successfully predicting the global market for many years using a specialized econometric model, allowing for proactive, long-term...
Apr 7, 20231 min read


The future of Europe - key challenges and some thoughts
The past few years have been more than challenging for the whole world and especially for Europe. The COVID-19 pandemic, followed by...
Apr 5, 20231 min read


What makes the economy tick series
Understanding our economic future through history Ever wondered how we got ourselves out from the ruins of the Middle Ages to the...
Apr 4, 20231 min read


The Rise and Fall of modern empires series
From the United States to China: a journey of global economic dominance from 1950 to 2010. Observe the shift of power from Western to...
Apr 3, 20231 min read


S-curves and their Applications in Marketing, Business, and the Economy
In this article, published in Marketing Research Association’s Alert! magazine, Roger’s Diffusion of Innovations Model, based on a simple...
Apr 2, 20231 min read


Impact of culture on the development of countries
The quantitative impact of cultural traits on economic growth on a country level. In order to measure culture, in the sense of standard...
Apr 1, 20231 min read


IS model: A general model of forecasting and its applications in science and the economy
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, Feb 2011 In this paper, a general model of Interaction Systems (IS) is introduced...
Mar 31, 20231 min read


Scientific facts behind Dan Brown's book "Inferno" (warning to readers: spoilers)
I am a great fan of Dan Brown. I have read all of his books and enjoyed every single one of them! Great fiction and storytelling. Most of...
Aug 20, 20154 min read


The Forecasting Tool
What is the Forecasting tool? The Forecasting Tool is an Excel* based application that can generate valuable forecasts, in just 4 easy...
Jan 15, 20152 min read


Selected Forecasts
Resources and downloads, including reports, whitepapers, software, or anything else of importance to the Forecasting Net community....
Jan 1, 20151 min read


Greek GDP forecast: a lost decade?
As the Second Economic Adjustment Program for Greece is soon coming to an end, there is a growing debate about the impact of the agreed...
Nov 19, 20145 min read


Ebola Outbreak 2014 forecast
As the number of reported cases of the recent Ebola virus outbreak is continuously rising, so is the concern of the people and public...
Oct 9, 20145 min read


The future of the global economy: 2013 - 2030
It’s been four years since the still raging global economic crisis began in 2008. Although our understanding of the crisis is getting...
Jan 30, 20131 min read


The future of Europe (Original version)
Contrary to popular belief that increased lending, first in the financial and corporate sector and then on a country level, is the key...
Nov 25, 20122 min read
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