Technology

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 acquire Emeryville, Calif.-based media data specialist Gracenote from Tribune Media, Variety has learned from multiple sources. Gracenote started ou... More

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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