Deloitte has scooped up the 110-employee creative agency Heat, in a move that underscores how chief marketing officers are becoming a bigger part of the IT spending conversation gi...
Facial recognition technology is being used in more and more ways these days, from urban surveillance cameras to payments processing. Where some of the most interesting advances li...
If 2015 was the year when the hype cycle around the Internet of Things came to a crescendo, signs point to 2016 being a time when more businesses gain a better understanding of its...
Microsoft has acquired mobile app-development platform provider Xamarin in a move that makes plenty of sense, and which has been a long time coming.Xamarin's CTO Miguel de Icaza, w...
Salesforce posted Q4 and full-year results that met analyst expectations while continuing the cloud vendor's torrid run of growth.While still small revenue-wise compared to the lik...
Much has been written and said about the challenges traditional brick-and-mortar retailers have had as more business moves online. Just take a look at Nordstrom. As the Wall Street...
Google has quickly moved its Cloud Dataproc service from beta into general availability, setting up a fresh option in 2016 for companies interested in making more effective use of ...
Oracle has acquired a virtualization startup named Ravello Systems in a bid to strengthen its public IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and differentiate against the likes of Amazo...
While 2015 was a big year for artificial intelligence and machine learning, 2016 is shaping up to be an even busier one as vendors break out the pocketbooks in search of both techn...
IBM is teaming up with longtime partner VMWare on a deal that will see the latter's widely used virtualization software deployed across Big Blue's global network of data centers. H...
The legal battle between the U.S. government and Apple over the contents of an accused terrorist's iPhone is being called the most important privacy case in years, and Apple CEO Ti...
IBM has made a sizable new investment in its Watson Health strategy, with the $2.6 billion acquisition of Truven Health Analytics. Here are the key details from IBM's announcement:...
While privacy laws vary greatly by geography, it's always instructive to pay attention to significant legal proceedings related to them, no matter the location. Such is the fact wi...
SAP has quietly purchased Roambi, a suite of mobile BI and data-visualization tools, with plans to bring "mobile access to analytics to everyone." Terms of the deal, whic...
Whole Foods is hoping to gain efficiencies and added value from its IT systems through a partnership with Infor, under which the companies are working together to create a next-gen...
One of the more important big data and data science conferences of early 2016, Spark Summit East, is underway this week in New York. The event is devoted to Spark, the open source ...
Netflix has completed moving its streaming-video operations onto Amazon Web Services after a seven-plus year journey, and the massive project holds valuable lessons for any enterpr...
Wipro is making a major new move into the US market with the $460 million purchase of HealthPlan Services, a Florida BPaaS (business process as a service) provider focused on healt...
Newspapers have been undergoing a painful transition to digital publishing for going on two decades now. One of the industry's biggest chains, Gannett, is reportedly eyeing a way t...
Microsoft researchers have just published a paper that describes a major breakthrough in speed for homomorphic encryption systems, which make it possible to analyze and make change...
The cloud platform wars aren't just about costs: They're also about features, particularly ones that support new types of applications and deliver increased productivity and flexib...
The Internet of Things cuts across so many technology areas that no single vendor can provide every piece of the puzzle. Therefore, IoT partnerships will rule the day for the fores...
While anyone can spot a big story, it's not as easy to pinpoint ones that make smaller ripples, indicating something larger going on under the surface. A case in point: Texas manag...
If the head of Germany's competition watchdog group has his way, the massive stores of consumer data held by Internet companies would involved in the due diligence authorities make...
Employee performance management has a less-than-stellar track record, despite being a pervasive practice in enterprises around the world. One of the biggest problems—as anyone who'...
Amazon's reported plans to open as many as 400 additional brick-and-mortar bookstores got a good deal of attention this week. But if true—Amazon has declined to comment on the repo...
Cisco is buying red-hot IoT (Internet of things) startup Jasper for $1.4 billion, in a move that embodies the type of unions that will help define the IoT market moving forward. He...
MuleSoft has crossed an important symbolic milestone, topping $100 million in revenue during its fiscal 2015, marking a growth rate of 92 percent. Valued at $1.5 billion, the start...
The parade of acquisitions related to AI (artificial intelligence) keeps coming, with the latest being Microsoft's purchase of SwiftKey, maker of a highly popular software keyboard...
Salesforce has set its product strategy table for 2016, outlining a slew of new and upcoming products and revealing a new pricing structure for its Sales and Service cloud suites. ...
