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Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. A new assessment service from cybersecurity ratings provider Black Kite will provide enterprise defenders with information about which of their third-party partners and vendors may be vulnerable to a ransomware attack. Ransomware was the scourge of information security in 2020, as

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) – U.S. businesses have been spending more on technology than on bricks and mortar for more than a decade now, but the trend has accelerated during the pandemic, one more sign that working from home is here to stay. As

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — Apple said on Monday it has hired former distinguished Google scientist Samy Bengio, who left the search giant amid turmoil in its artificial intelligence research department. Bengio is expected to lead a new AI research unit at Apple under John Giannandrea,

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Okta has announced that its $6.5 billion Auth0 acquisition is now complete. As companies continue to up their cloud IT spend as part of their digital transformation efforts, this generates even greater need for businesses to invest in their security —

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Robotic process automation (RPA) — technology that automates monotonous, repetitive chores traditionally performed by human workers — is big business. Forrester estimates that RPA and other AI subfields created jobs for 40% of companies in 2019 and that a tenth of startups

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. News broke this week that Woven Planet, a Toyota subsidiary, will acquire Level 5, Lyft’s self-driving unit, for $550 million. The transaction, which is expected to close in Q3 2021, includes $200 million paid upfront and $350 million over a five-year period.

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Google parent Alphabet’s “moonshot” X lab announced last week at the White House Leaders Summit on Climate that it’s working on a project for the electric grid. Over the past three years, the lab says it has been investigating “new computational

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Location tracking, e-commerce history, online buying behavior, and biometric information — there has been a slow but consistent erosion of consumer privacy. Consumers used to be very comfortable sharing personal data with brands in order to see more personalized content, but

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. The pandemic greatly accelerated businesses’ digital transformation efforts. This is particularly true in the marketing domain, where enterprises began to embrace automation and enablement technologies. When McKinsey surveyed 1,500 executives across industries and regions in 2018, 66% said addressing skills gaps

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — Darktrace, a cybersecurity company advised by former MI5 and CIA spymasters, leapt more than 40% on its market debut on Friday, delivering a boost to the London market after the spectacular flop of Deliveroo last month. The company was

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — Intel wants 8 billion euros ($9.7 billion) in public subsidies towards building a semiconductor factory in Europe, its CEO was cited as saying on Friday, as the region seeks to reduce its reliance on imports amid a shortage of

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Resolution of the COVID-19 crisis has come down to how quickly governments can vaccinate individuals before more contagious variants of the virus evolve and spread. One platform playing a critical role in helping health care organizations win that race is a

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. CEOs are questioning the value of digital and social media marketing, with 77% of CEOs saying they don’t see digital advertising as a reliable source of new customers or sales, according to the Board to Death research by marketing tech company

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — India’s giant IT firms in Bengaluru and other cities have set up COVID-19 “war-rooms” as they scramble to source oxygen, medicine and hospital beds for infected workers and maintain backroom operations for the world’s biggest financial firms. Banks including

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. In April 2020, Microsoft launched the Open Data Campaign, an effort to furnish countries and companies with data and make it easier to use, share, and collaborate with that data. Today, the company shared the progress it’s made toward those goals,

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. TravelPerk, a business travel booking and management platform that gives companies data and insights into all their spend, has raised $160 million in a series D round of funding led by Greyhound Capital. The raise comes shortly after rival TripActions raised

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. The “data” part of the terms “data lake,” “data warehouse,” and “database” is easy enough to understand. Data are everywhere, and the bits need to be kept somewhere. But should they be stored in a data warehouse, a data lake, or

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Cloud transformation is moving quickly, according to a report released today by cloud visibility management platform CloudCheckr. In a survey of over 300 IT professionals and business stakeholders at companies with more than 500 employees, 57% reported that more than half

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) raised its annual revenue forecast on Tuesday, betting on strong demand for its chips used in data centers and personal computers as its chief executive said she was confident the company could source the chips

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — Microsoft on Tuesday met analysts’ quarterly sales expectations and beat profit estimates, but its shares fell slightly as investors hoped for an even stronger performance after a year-long rally to a massive market valuation. The Redmond, Washington company has

The promise of open clouds: Faster innovation, faster delivery Learn how open clouds reduce latencies to client device, improve customer and device (IoT) interactions and speed up innovations from the edge to the data center. Register Now Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. In November 2018, Amazon

The promise of open clouds: Faster innovation, faster delivery Learn how open clouds reduce latencies to client device, improve customer and device (IoT) interactions and speed up innovations from the edge to the data center. Register Now Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. A private code-signing key

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — Apple on Monday will begin rolling out an update of its iOS operating system with new privacy controls designed to limit digital advertisers from tracking iPhone users. For Apple’s more than 1 billion iPhone users, the change will mean

The promise of open clouds: Faster innovation, faster delivery Learn how open clouds reduce latencies to client device, improve customer and device (IoT) interactions and speed up innovations from the edge to the data center. Register Now Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Private equity firm Thoma

The promise of open clouds: Faster innovation, faster delivery Learn how open clouds reduce latencies to client device, improve customer and device (IoT) interactions and speed up innovations from the edge to the data center. Register Now Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. The potential for low-code/no-code

The promise of open clouds: Faster innovation, faster delivery Learn how open clouds reduce latencies to client device, improve customer and device (IoT) interactions and speed up innovations from the edge to the data center. Register Now Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Attackers targeted both the

The promise of open clouds: Faster innovation, faster delivery Learn how open clouds reduce latencies to client device, improve customer and device (IoT) interactions and speed up innovations from the edge to the data center. Register Now Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. This week, the European

The promise of open clouds: Faster innovation, faster delivery Learn how open clouds reduce latencies to client device, improve customer and device (IoT) interactions and speed up innovations from the edge to the data center. Register Now Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) — Facial recognition

The promise of open clouds: Faster innovation, faster delivery Learn how open clouds reduce latencies to client device, improve customer and device (IoT) interactions and speed up innovations from the edge to the data center. Register Now Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. GoodData this week unfurled

The promise of open clouds: Faster innovation, faster delivery Learn how open clouds reduce latencies to client device, improve customer and device (IoT) interactions and speed up innovations from the edge to the data center. Register Now Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car