Open source software won the hearts and minds of corporate tech strategists, but the first-generation of open-source software startups largely failed to gain commercial traction. A new generation is selling to the CIO in a different way.
A draft plan to better coordinate federal, state and local government efforts to recover from a major cyberattack has languished for more than six years, security officials say.
Recent lawsuits filed by users against Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google highlight the risks that companies face as they adopt the technology as an alternative to the password.
Rent-A-Center names Angela Yochem as its new CIO. The company said she will develop technology to support its "growth."
With Pizza Hut Asia, MasterCard announced Tuesday that it is has embedded its MasterPass mobile wallet into a robot, dubbed Pepper, that the pizza chain plans to test in an undetermined number of restaurants in Japan. Meanwhile Domino’s is testing an autonomous delivery vehicle in Australia
Increasingly, CIOs are focusing on revenue-generation rather than conventional operational priorities such as saving money, according to a new survey from Harvey Nash and KPMG.
The average outsourcing deal size is falling as automation becomes used more widely. The most recent outsourcing deal between BAE Systems and CSC is valued at $600 million, less than one-third the size of a similar deal struck in 2005.
Artificial intelligence can help companies tackle well-defined problems, but knowing which problems to address requires curiosity, imagination, and a business culture that encourages these conversations, says CIO Journal Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger.
TransUnion Corp. is testing visual analytics software that lets banks, lenders and other corporate customers analyze their business performance by drawing on data from about 200 million consumers. The new product comes after a technology overhaul that moved TransUnion to open source and Agile development, and cut tech spending as a percent of corporate revenue.
A widespread cyberattack designed to do physical damage could leave tens of millions of Americans without electricity for weeks or months said authorities on the electric grid who testified during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs.
Top chief information officers are removing friction between customers and the business and building connections among their corporate peers, panelists said Wednesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Conference. “The CIOs that can actually facilitate consensus, common purpose and mission are the ones that are really set to achieve great things,” said Craig Stephenson, managing director of the North American CIO practice at executive-search firm Korn/Ferry International
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has begun work with Fiat Chrysler on self-driving technology for testing in Pacifica minivans, and will open a research center in a Detroit suburb.
One of the last legal methods that companies have to store Europeans’ data on servers in the U.S. was thrust deeper into limbo when a privacy regulator said it would ask Europe’s top court to review its legality.
Microsoft will lay off 1,850 workers and take an impairment and restructuring charge of approximately $950 million as it takes further step in dismantling the mobile-phone operations it acquired from Nokia.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise plans to spin off most of its technology services operations and merge them with those of Computer Sciences, in an $8.5 billion transaction that marks HP Enterprise’s latest adjustment to a shifting landscape that is roiling the market for corporate technology.
The European Union proposed legal changes that could force Netflix and other online-video providers to help finance European-made films.
Volkswagen invested $300 million in Tel Aviv-based car-hailing startup Gett, which operates in 60 cities in Israel, Russia, the U.S. and the U.K. The companies also have signed a strategic partnership agreement.
A Delaware corporate law, which can compel locally incorporated firms to open their books to shareholders, is a potentially valuable tool for thousands of tech workers and other small investors questioning their shares’ worth.
Facebook told a U.S. senator that an internal investigation had found “no evidence of systematic political bias” against conservatives in its trending topics tool, but that it will revamp how the feature works to minimize the potential effects of individual biases.
Virtual-reality headset makers say 2016 will be the year of VR. Content-creators, however, tell a different story. VR isn’t ready for prime time.
Twitter Inc. is sticking with its signature 140-character limit, but the allotment will start to feel a bit longer soon.
Advances in microchips—particularly the graphics-processing units pioneered by Nvidia—are fueling growth in machine learning, a programming approach in which computers teach themselves without explicit instructions.
France’s competition authority on Monday opened an inquiry into possible antitrust issues in the online-advertising market, saying it will examine the market power of Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.
International Business Machines Corp. this week quietly laid off employees, continuing a wave of job cuts the company announced in April.
Uber will deploy a specially outfitted hybrid Ford Fusion on the streets of Pittsburgh in coming weeks, collecting mapping data and testing self-driving abilities.
Cybercriminals stole about $9 million last year from a bank in Ecuador in an attack similar to one that took $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank about a year later. The case suggests global bankers haven’t been sharing critical information to prevent such heists
Alphabet’s Google argued that France risks upsetting international law and emboldening totalitarian censors by trying to force the search firm to broaden its application of Europe’s “right to be forgotten.”
