How To Cut Your App Development Costs By 50%
Gone are the days of traditional software development where the barrier to entry was prohibitively high due to proprietary technologies with high license costs, high infrastructure costs and a small…
Does Competition Drive Us to Innovate?
The question of what drives or motivates us to innovate is one that hasn’t really ever received a satisfactory answer, although having an enemy or rival is one that…
Think Like Nature to Innovate
Nature stores many business success lessons for those smart enough to see them. Companies that prove able to interpret and transfer creation’s learnings to its own culture prosper on…
IoT Market Could Top $3 Trillion By 2025, Report Finds
IT departments take note: The internet of things market is picking up speed, with new technologies like LPWA paving the way for broader adoption. Even though a new study shows…
Intel Buys Deep Learning Startup Nervana To Bolster AI Business
The chipmaker says it will use Nervana Systems’ expertise in accelerating deep learning algorithms to expand Intel’s capabilities in the field of artificial intelligence. (Click image for larger view and…
C3 IoT: Is Tom Siebel’s Startup An Emerging Powerhouse?
C3 IoT is Tom Siebel’s latest venture. The young Redwood City, Calif-based company is off to a fast start with industrial IoT applications, and now it’s bringing a cross-industry platform…
Global IT Security Spending Will Top $81 Billion In 2016
Gartner predicts worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach $81.6 billion in 2016 — an increase of 7.9% from last year. (Click image for larger view and…
Federal Source Code Policy Requires Agencies To Share Code
The objective behind the White House’s Federal Source Code policy is to ensure all agencies make custom-developed source code available for re-use across government. The aim is to make the…
Big Data, Cloud Demand Drive IT Job Growth
IT job numbers grew in July, but not as fast as they did during the rest of 2016. Yet big data and cloud trends will continue to drive job growth…
Google Buys SaaS-Based Cloud Commerce Platform Orbitera
The acquisition, which reportedly cost more than $100 million, will allow Google to help companies sell cloud software to other businesses more efficiently. (Click image for larger view and slideshow.)…
10 Ways Bots Can Improve Your Business Processes
Businesses use bots to engage with customers, online and via social media, because they’re a cost-effective way to respond instantly to simple queries. As bot technology improves, they’re finding…
Encourage Your Employees to Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset
It might seem counter-intuitive to encourage your employees to take on side projects. After all, business owners want their staff to be 100% invested in the job they’re being paid…
Cord-cutting, showrooming and other specious techno “facts”
From time to time, I think it’s useful to try to get rid of some of the persistent, tech-flavored factoids that are becoming more prevalent in our media-saturated, overly exposed,…
5 Ways to Dramatically Improve Your Communication
“It’s not what you say, but how you say it.” Yes, it’s a cliché, but the expression is right on target, especially when it comes to communicating face to face…
5 Reasons Uber Gave Up to Didi and Won in China
Scan the top Uber headlines this week and you might be convinced the $35 billion Uber China-Didi Chuxing merger was a surrender. But don’t be fooled: Uber hasn’t given up…
3 Ways to Overcome the Fear of Speaking Out at Work
Did you ever really think about what Charles Darwin meant when he talked about survival of the fittest? Truth is, it was Herbert Spencer who drew parallels between his own economic…
Is Your Business in Growth Mode?
Why do we like The Grower so much? Plain and simple, it’s because of options–there’s no shortage of potential paths to greater success. These entrepreneurs manage businesses that are doing…
Why BYOD Programs Face Limitations
A process that allows employees to move their possess inclination (smartphones, laptops and tablets) to their workplace and use those inclination to entrance association information and applications is not…
Don’t Neglect Innovation
It’s easy for companies to be distracted and take the eye off innovation. In many cases, it does indeed amount to neglect. One of the first things to suffer…
Power Shifts to the People in Job Hunt
We live in an age of long business cycles. The current U.S. expansion, now in its 86th month, started in July 2009. The two expansions before that lasted 73 months…