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. ...
While the notion of package delivery via civilian drones may remain a fanciful notion to some, the reality is that drones may become a mainstream method of transport sooner rather ...
Walmart has bequeathed what could be a valuable gift to enterprises by making its OneOps platform for cloud and application lifecycle management available as open source software u...
Google's Waze has made available an SDK (software development kit) that stands to not only vastly increase the crowdsourced navigation app's access to real-time data, but also butt...
Salesforce has quietly announced the general availability of Heroku Enterprise, in a move that gives companies invested in the company's software and Force.com platform new options...
In what could prove to be a landmark decision, earlier this month Germany's highest court ruled that Facebook's friend finder feature is unlawful because it violates advertising ha...
Microsoft has broadened open-source access to its Computational Network Toolkit, in a move that underscores the ongoing arms race around machine learning technology.CNTK had initi...
As impressive as recent advancements in areas of artificial intelligence such as facial recognition and autonomous devices, there remains much work to be done in the realm of "...
For sure, 2015 was a major year for advancements in artificial intelligence, marked by events such the first autonomously driven car. The state of AI today and moving forward provi...
SAP has released its preliminary fourth-quarter and full-year 2015 numbers, reporting a strong rise in cloud revenue and strong sales for the new S/4HANA suite, while setting high ...
IBM has made another acquisition in the streaming video realm, scooping up Ustream for a reported $130 million. The deal comes a bit over a month after IBM bought Clearleap for its...
The National Retail Federation's 2016 Big Show conference has wound down, and in its wake three major retail trends are clearly emerging, says Constellation VP and principal analys...
Oracle held an analyst summit in New York this week, where Oracle executives including CEO Mark Hurd and EVP of product development Thomas Kurian gave attendees a sweeping and in-d...
While Amazon Web Services is known for its robust security, Unisys believes some customers may desire an additional layer of protection. To that end, it has put up its Stealth secu...
Infor is hoping to differentiate its recently announced CloudSuite Retail offering through a strategic partnership with Predictix, which develops big data analytics technology focu...
Pitney Bowes has taken another step in a transition beyond its roots as a mailing and printing products provider with the acquisition of Seattle company Enroute, which makes a clou...
IBM has made its first acquisition of the new year, buying German vendor IRIS Analytics for its anti-payment fraud technology. Despite the heightened awareness of payment fraud in...
Salesforce has reached a significant company milestone, celebrating the 10th birthday of its AppExchange marketplace. To say the least, the AppExchange has been both successful and...
Oracle is planning to hire 1,400 new inside salespeople to push its cloud software portfolio in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Before we get into what this means, here are the...
It turns out "shadow IT" is a bigger phenomenon than many of us believed, at least according to Cisco. The company has determined that on average, large enterprises are u...
NICE Systems is expanding its portfolio of customer interaction analytics software with the purchase of Nexidia, in a move that expands its customer base and allows it to support m...
If you needed another indication the IoT (Internet of Things) era has arrived, look no further than this year's World Economic Forum annual meeting, which begins January 20 in Davo...
A provocative story in the Washington Post suggests that retailers are under increasing assault not just from their direct competitors, but companies and industries that offer expe...
Google has come out swinging against IaaS (infrastructure as a service) rival Amazon Web Services in the latest salvo of the laaS pricing war. In a blog post, Google claimed its co...
