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US President Donald Trump met with a sizable group of the tech industry's most prominent CEOs, including Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Apple's Tim Cook, IBM's Ginni Rometty and Or...
Dropbox turned heads when it announced last year it had migrated 90 percent of its storage off of Amazon Web Services and onto a homegrown, global network.
The company's explosi...
There are more than 700 cryptocurrencies available for trading online, and many are derivations of Bitcoin, which in turn is based on the blockchain distributed ledger technolo...
In a stunner of a move, Amazon will pay $13.7 billion to acquire upscale supermarket chain Whole Foods Market. It's a move that will significantly change Amazon as a company an...
While the technology isn't entirely new, Salesforce's just-launched Einstein Analytics marks the next path forward in its AI and advanced analytics strategy.
Previously brand...
Microsoft is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a gold member, in the latest instance of the company embracing open source under the leadership of CEO Sayta Nadella. The m...
The Apache Hadoop ecosystem received a bit of a shakeup this week, with IBM's decision to eventually phase out its own BigInsights service in favor of standardizing on Hortonwork...
Many acquisitions lead to product overlap, and Microsoft's $26.2 billion purchase of LinkedIn a year ago is no different. Redmond has announced that Docs.com, the filesharing s...
Hortonworks has introduced a new support subscription model for its Hadoop-based big data platform, in a bid to appeal more to customers with hybrid deployments as well as intent...
Hortonworks has announced the general availability of DataFlow 3.0, the newest version of its platform for streaming data analytics. The Hadoop distributor says the growth of IoT...
GE has expanded its Industrial IoT platform Predix deeper into the electric utilities space, with a new suite of applications aimed at not only optimizing power producers' oper...
Rimini Street is expanding its third-party software support portfolio significantly about a month after announcing it will soon become a publicly traded company. It will now of...
We've all heard the predictions of how the IoT (Internet of things) will connect tens of billions of devices in the near term. In many cases, those devices won't require a high-b...
Apple is set to take another turn toward the enterprise—and into competition with the likes of Facebook and Twitter—with an upcoming service called Business Chat. While Apple i...
Zuora has taken the wraps off Zuora Central, a cloud-based hub for coordinating order-to-cash operations across an enterprise's systems. It's the result of a top-secret project...
Google depends heavily on advertising for its revenue, so the thought of it installing an ad-blocker inside the Chrome web browser might seem counterintuitive at first. But what ...
Cisco has been trying to reorient its business around software for years, and may have just taken a step that will prove more important to that goal than any single acquisition...
It's been estimated that there will be 1.8 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs by 2022, even as the number of high-profile attacks and hacks continues to mount and billions of Io...
While biometrics are coming into serious vogue for device security, volunteer researchers at the Chaos Computer Club say they've already cracked into Samsung's red-hot Galaxy S8 ...
Microservices have become a favored means of building next-generation applications over the past couple of years, even though broad industry standards and consensus haven't yet...
The Hyperledger blockchain consortium is continuing to gain momentum, adding eight new members including Deloitte and Ernest Young. Hyperledger now has 142 members, up substanti...
It's not often that a single technical hire at a vendor merits news coverage, but when it involves a tech luminary of the likes of Java "father" James Gosling, proper a...
While Salesforce dipped back into the red in its first quarter, after posting modest profits in the previous few, the company remains on a serious growth tear with revenue up 2...
Google's I/O developer conference kicked off this week and as in past years, it generated a lot of news spanning both consumer and enterprise-oriented scenarios (and of course,...
In January, SAP moved to bundle its offerings for IoT under the brand name Leonardo. Jump forward just several months later to this week's Sapphire Now conference, and the visi...
SAP CEO Bill McDermott took the stage for the Sapphire Now conference's opening keynote this week, and after a few minutes of audience engagement and banter, launched into his ...
Independent enterprise software support provider Rimini Street will soon be a publicly traded company, but via a merger and not with a long-expected initial public offering. Th...
SAP is getting its app store act together, with the unveiling of a new App Center that brings together partner offerings for its entire catalog in the same place. The move gets w...
SAP is planning to make major additional investments in Business ByDesign, the cloud ERP suite it first launched in 2007, hoping to make the product finally reach the critical ...
Microsoft is beefing up its database options for Azure in a big way. During the first day of its Build developer conference, Redmond unveiled a new "planet-scale" dat...
