Technology
IBM Building Blockchain Ecosystem (InfoWorld)
IBM believes blockchain technology, with its capability to create an essentially immutable ledger of digital events, will alter the way whole industries conduct transactions. To ma... More
Nielsen is in Advanced Talks to Buy Gracenote (Variety)
Nielsen is in advanced talks to acquire Emeryville, Calif.-based media data specialist Gracenote from Tribune Media, Variety has learned from multiple sources. Gracenote started ou... More
Pokemon & AI with a Starbucks Frappucino to Go (CBR)
Your daily cup of coffee is going to get a lot more high-tech in 2017 if Starbucks follows through with its plans. The coffee giant revealed at its Biennial Investor Conference som... More
How Blockchain Can Help Fight Cyberattacks (TechCrunch)
One of the main characteristics of the blockchain is its immutability. The use of sequential hashing and cryptography, combined with the decentralized structure, make it virtually ... More
AWS Launches Blox, a Collection of Open Source Tools for the EC2 Container Service (TechCrunch)
With its EC2 Container Service (ECS), Amazon has long offered support for software containers on its AWS cloud computing platform. Today, at its re:Invent developer conference, the... More
Accenture Expands Partnership with AWS (CMS Wire)
Accenture is expanding its business group that helps companies migrate to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Accenture made the announcement at AWS re:Invent, the annual AWS cust... More
Netflix Launches Video Previews for TV Screens so You Can Watch Snippets Before Clicking (VentureBeat)
Netflix is introducing a new interface for its TV app today, ushering in video previews that display a specially created snippet of the program or movie to watch before you commit.... More
Amazon Moves to Cut Checkout Line, Promoting a Grab-and-Go Experience (New York Times)
There is almost no aspect of retail that Amazon has not upended with online shopping. Now, the company is trying to computerize the experience of buying sandwiches and soda from th... More
Challenge for the Next Administration: Evolving Tech Policy for the Digital, Data Revolution (The Hill)
The world is undergoing an unstoppable digital transformation, affecting every aspect of people’s day-to-day lives. In almost every respect, these changes are positive – expan... More
China Gets Tougher on Piracy with NexGuard’s Forensic Watermarking Technology (Global Times)
The Test Institute of Film Technical Quality (TIFTQ) under China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) signed an agreement on Monday in... More
SAS Puts Intelligence Into its New Channel Direction (CDN)
After 40 years of predominantly direct selling, SAS Institute is starting to get really serious about channel sales. The analytics software vendor, based in Cary, N.C. with a Canad... More
Alexa, Tell Me Where You’re Going Next (Backchannel)
Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s VP of Alexa: "The hands-free ability is key. That’s the killer application for speech. If you think about Alexa and Echo in particular, there was no cop-... More
How AI is Changing the Retail Experience for Consumers (Forbes)
Michelle Peluso, IBM: A key challenge for retailers is managing their inventory levels. Ideally, you have just the right amount of stock on hand to meet consumer needs. If you are ... More
AI Songsmith Cranks Out Surprisingly Catchy Tunes (MIT)
The tune was, in fact, dreamed up by a musical AI program developed at Google. And the program’s latest compositions show how combining a powerful machine-learning approach with ... More
How Voice Search May Threaten Google’s Advertising Business (VentureBeat)
When the world shifted from desktop to smartphones, one thing didn’t change: the existence of a screen on both devices. The screen shrank, but it remained the medium through whic... More
How IoT and Blockchain Will Reinvent the Global Supply Chain (VentureBeat)
IBM is working with businesses across industries to implement IoT Blockchain solutions that bring an entire new level of trust, traceability, and accountability to global supply ch... More
Okta CEO Todd McKinnon and the Importance of Digital Identity (Diginomica)
Okta is quickly establishing itself as the go-to cloud service for identity management. And whilst identity may sound like a fringe purchase to some, when you consider that it sits... More
How Predictive AI Will Change Shopping (HBR)
Imagine you’re about to leave the house to pick up your kids. As you grab your keys, you hear a voice from the device on your coffee table: “It looks like you’ll use the last... More
Tech Titan Jim Goodnight Positions SAS for the Future (Forbes)
SAS, the Cary, North Carolina-based, 40-year-old software company, has not only survived the tumultuous changes in the technology arena over the past four decades, it has thrived, ... More
VR is the New Reality for China’s Online Shopping Portals (Jing Daily)
Virtual reality is currently big news in China. While the high costs involved relative to perceived returns continue to deter many brands in the West from wholeheartedly embracing ... More