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Job Seekers are Far More Interested in the Blockchain than in Bitcoin Roles (Quartz)

As bitcoin’s price cools, so has interest in gigs related to the original crypto asset. However, job seekers’ attraction to blockchain—the distributed, digital ledger that tr... More

IBM Watson with Blockchain Boost Adds Visibility to Supply Chain Disruptions (Silicon Angle)

IBM has made big bets on Watson, its artificial intelligence platform, and the revolutionary ledger system blockchain. So, it only makes sense that the company would ultimately com... More

NAB Show: MESA Members Highlight Program on Application of Machine Intelligence in Production, Post (HITS)

NAB Show will present a new half-day program within the Next-Generation Media Technologies Conference titled “Get Ready for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.” The p... More

SAS CEO Jim Goodnight on the Importance of Education, STEM, Ending the Skills Gap (IT World Canada)

Jim Goodnight on SAS’ social responsibility to help educate the future workforce: "Well, it certainly is as far as using some of the best software – which we provide – so we ... More

IBM Sees Quantum Computing Going Mainstream Within Five Years (CNBC)

Quantum computing going mainstream. It may sound impossible, but IBM thinks it might be the future in the next five years. That is one of the five technological innovations that IB... More

A Different Take on Voice Interfaces, IBM Launches Watson Assistant (InformationWeek)

Watson Assistant will be delivered via IBM partner devices such as electronics embedded in cars and apps branded by hotel companies. Beyond customer engagement and service, the rea... More

Why Human Ingenuity Needs to Tango with Technology (Forbes)

In every new generation of technology, machines with processing power can do significantly more than what they did previously. Each advance in processing power has generated entire... More

HBO Chooses Wazee Digital for Archiving Endangered Formats (SSN)

Wazee Digital today announced that HBO® has begun using Wazee Digital Core to digitize and archive sports content currently stored in endangered videotape formats. In doing so, HB... More

NAB Show: Prime Focus Technologies, Microsoft Partner to Lead the Media, Entertainment Industry to the Cloud (MESA)

Prime Focus Technologies has partnered with Microsoft to further strengthen its flagship CLEARTM Hybrid Cloud-enabled Media ERP Suite. CLEAR handles 1.5 M hours of content, and its... More

Tata Communications Helps Surbana Jurong Take Lift Security in the Internet of Things to the Next Level (HITS)

Tata Communications, a leading digital infrastructure provider, is working with Surbana Jurong, one of Asia’s largest urban, industrial and infrastructure consulting firms, to eq... More

The University of Luxembourg Opens a Cisco Networking Academy (HITS)

The University of Luxembourg and Cisco announced the opening of a Cisco Networking Academy on the University campus, the first Networking Academy in a higher education institution ... More

How Microsoft is Positioning Itself as a Leader in Enterprise Blockchain Adoption (TechRepublic)

In these early stages of its practical development, the discussion of blockchain technology, and its potential for business enterprises, often revolves around cryptocurrency like B... More

Macs Now Account for 10% of Active Personal Computers (CW)

Macs accounted for approximately one in every 10 personal computers used to reach the web over the last two months, according to recent data from an analytics vendor. The rise o... More

3 Emerging Technologies CFOs Should Learn to Love (Forbes)

Most financial teams would like to keep up—and experiment with—emerging finance technologies, from artificial intelligence to blockchain to chatbots. The reality is they can’... More

Trump’s Message in Blocking Broadcom Deal: U.S. Tech Not for Sale (Bloomberg)

With his swift rejection of Broadcom Ltd.’s hostile takeover of Qualcomm Inc., President Donald Trump sent a clear signal to overseas investors: Any deal that could give China an... More

Why Technology is the Bright Future for Business Schools (Forbes)

The five most valuable companies in the U.S. are all tech firms. At the end of February 2018, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook have a combined market capitalization of... More

Salesforce Touts IBM Partnership, International Growth Opportunity at Investor Conference (HITS)

Salesforce’s expanded partnership with IBM stands to provide customers with more valuable data than ever before, according to David Havlek, Salesforce deputy CFO. One of the g... More

Wipro Expands Live Workspace Suite of Offerings to Support Apple Devices (HITS)

Wipro announced the expansion of it’s Live Workspace suite of offerings, providing enterprises with an anywhere, anytime, any device digital workplace. This will allow enterprise... More

Five Data Trends That Will Transform Cloud, AI in 2018 (Forbes)

Building an operating system for data is the foundation needed for any industry today. These could range from a health care organization crafting a strategy to comply with General ... More

Why Companies and Countries are Battling for Ascendancy in 5G (New York Times)

Being at the forefront of a new technology often provides a strategic advantage. That helps explain why there is so much scrapping now by companies and countries over a next wave o... More

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