On the back end of an earnings season that by many accounts could have been worse, tech investors appeared to be in the mood to celebrate on Friday, sending shares of IT companies higher as key stock-market indexes hit milestone highs. ...
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Many U.S. tech companies are pushing hard this year for an increase in the number of high-skill immigrants allowed into the country, but many veteran IT workers question their motives for wanting to increase the number of visas under the ...
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AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company has recently established a new Life Operations headquarters at 8501 IBM Drive in Innovation Park, Charolette, US. Besides reaffirming the company's long-term commitment to support its employees, ...
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Apple's record-setting $17 billion bond offer this week stood in stark contrast to the company's darkest days, when in 1996 its millions in notes were rated as junk because investors wondered if the company would survive a thrashing by ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a global certification programme to allow developers, operational staff and solutions architects to demonstrate their skills by taking examinations in a range of cloud-related subjects. This is ...
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Salesforce.com will next month begin shipping its Communities application, designed to let companies build external-facing social sites for interacting with their customers and partners. Communities uses the technology in ...
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Preparing its customers to join the emerging‘Internet of things’, IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of machine-to-machine small data messages Using the MQTT (the Message Queuing ...
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Hewlett-Packard on Monday said it has created a business unit that will deal in purpose-built systems based on specific applications and usage models, and also announced the reorganisation of its server unit. The HP Converged Systems ...
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Global CRM (customer relationship management) revenue grew 12.5 percent last year to US$18 billion, a rate three times that of all enterprise software segments on average, as companies look to acquire more business and serve existing ...
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Alexander Duesener, v-p of worldwide field operations in EMEA for Cadence Design Systems believes chip designers have a crucial role in maintaining Europe’s strengths in wireless and automotive systems. The biggest challenge in ...
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Dell has pulled together products it gained from recent acquisitions into a series of BYOD offerings, though it faces the challenge of selling them at a time when the company's ownership hangs in the balance. The offerings are aimed at ...
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Researchers have announced a collaboration to develop an affordable photovoltaic (PV) system capable of concentrating solar radiation 2000 times and converting 80% of the incoming radiation into useful energy. The system can also provide ...
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Salesforce.com is taking steps to combine its acquisitions in social media monitoring and social advertising with its core CRM (customer relationship management) software through a new product called Social.com. The new product, which was ...
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Seguros El Norte has selected IBM’s PureSystems to improve its IT infrastructure and accelerate the deployment of new customer facing applications. The company will deploy the PureSystems service to its existing servers, intended to ...
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Why it is that we are only now starting to appreciate the value of big data and where all this data comes from, asks Matthew Caffrey, general manager at Chesterfield-based embedded systems supplier, DSP Design. With the advent of the ...
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