IT Technology Major Lawsuit Filed To Save Families From Trump H-1B Visa Ban Donald Trump arrives to speak about immigration reform in the Rose Garden of the White House on May … [+] 16, 2019. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Getty Images A new lawsuit hopes to save H-1B visa holders and their spouses and children who the Trump administration will not grant visas or allow to enter […] Written by imesocial July 15, 2020July 15, 2020
IT Technology Frozen Out Of Network Infrastructure Markets, Huawei Hijacks US Patent Regime Putting Huawei on the Entity List may have stopped it from licensing critical US technology, but Huawei is seeking to earn revenue in other ways. Huawei filed patent infringement claims against Verizon and also for products Verizon acquires from other US companies such as Cisco and Hewlett-Packard; and Huawei is demanding royalty payments for hundreds […] Written by imesocial July 14, 2020July 14, 2020
IT Technology Meet The Stanford AI Lab Alums That Raised $15 Million To Optimize Machine Learning Snorkel AI cofounders (L to R): Alex Ratner (CEO), Chris Ré (Board Member), Paroma Varma (Head of … [+] Solutions), Braden Hancock (Head of Technology), and Henry Ehrenberg (Head of Engineering) Snorkel AI In 2014, computer science PhD candidate Alex Ratner and a team of fellow Stanford PhDs, advised by associate professor and MacArthur Fellow […] Written by imesocial July 14, 2020July 14, 2020
IT Technology Corona, Other Crises And Their (Not So) Comparable Effects On Startups Haphazard stock markets. Expansive lay-offs. Impending corporate bankruptcies. Government bail-outs. Global economic downturn. Manifold are the characteristics that the current coronavirus crisis shares with its 2008 predecessor. Social distancing. Reduced mobility. Home-schooling. Remote work. Unprecedented government intervention in personal lives. Just as numerous are the features unique to the Covid-19 crisis, making it all the […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
IT Technology Romania-Founded UiPath Raises $225 Million To Reach A $10.2 Billion Valuation Daniel Dines, cofounder and CEO of UiPath UiPath Robotic Process Automation (RPA) company UiPath announced today that it closed a $225 million Series E round, reaching an 11-digit valuation for the first time in the company’s history (10.2 billion). Alkeon Capital led the round, with participating investors including Accel, Coatue, Dragoneer, IVP, Madrona Venture Group, […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
IT Technology An Unwitting Game Of Russian Roulette Data Management: An Unwitting Game of Russian Roulette Getty I noted in several recent blogs that the COVID-19 crisis increased the need for digital transformation because the crisis brings new value-creation opportunities to businesses, and I explained how to capture those business advantages even in a recession. It necessitates implementing the right infrastructure – not […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
Business IT Technology Is The Business World Ready For A Chief Data Ethics Officer? Getty Data ethics is the new strategic imperative for leading corporations. In NewVantage Partners 2019 Executive Survey, more than half of executives — 55.7% — pointed to data ethics as a top business priority. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Tom Davenport and I discussed the “seven key types of Chief Data Officer (CDO) jobs”, […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
IT Technology The 10 Best AI And Data Science Undergraduate Courses For 2021 Artificial Intelligence is the hottest topic in technology and commerce today, and the field of data science is fundamental to how it works. Courses in data science all now contain a strong AI presence, and a few institutions are already offering specialized undergraduate degrees in AI. The 10 Best AI And Data Science Undergraduate Courses […] Written by imesocial July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
IT Technology Why Security Needs To Be Integral To DevOps istock Bottom Line: DevOps and security teams need to leave one-time gating inspections in the past and pursue a more collaborative real-time framework to achieve their shared compliance, security and time-to-market goals. Shorter product lifecycles the need to out-innovate competitors and exceed customer expectations with each new release are a few of the many reasons […] Written by imesocial July 12, 2020July 12, 2020
IT Technology Using Patent Analytics To See Why Amazon Bought Zoox Aicha Evans who is the CEO of the self-driving technology development company Zoox, talks about … [+] autonomous cars during a keynote session at the Amazon Re:MARS conference on robotics and artificial intelligence at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 6, 2019. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP via Getty Images) AFP […] Written by imesocial July 12, 2020July 12, 2020
IT Technology 10 Reasons Why The Cloud Is The Future Of Industrial Monitoring istock Bottom Line: Monitoring remote locations in real-time at a low operating cost combined with advances in AI and machine learning to interpret data are why cloud platforms are defining the future of SCADA and industrial monitoring. Cloud platforms’ reliability, security, and scale are defining the future of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)-based real-time […] Written by imesocial July 11, 2020July 11, 2020
IT Technology Apple Updates Its Free Coding Courses For Educators & Students Apple announced a new set of tools to help educators teach coding to students from grade school to college. This will be mostly about Swift and Xcode that can encourage more students to learn app development. On July 13, Apple will begin offering free online training to educators that will be an introduction to its Develop in Swift […] Written by imesocial July 11, 2020July 11, 2020
IT Technology How A Tech Entrepreneur Broke Records With A $189M Valuation Pre-Launch On The Road To $1B Getty Images/iStockphoto Bottom Line: Traditional banks aren’t innovating fast enough to improve credit card fraud, endpoint cybersecurity, AI-powered end-to-end identity verification and more intuitive user experiences creating new opportunities for startups. Fintech is forecast to achieve a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25% through 2022, reaching a market value of $309B. The broader financial […] Written by imesocial July 11, 2020July 11, 2020
Business IT Technology Digital Is Great, But Where Are The New Business Models? The power of digital: well understood, but lagging. Photo: ISABEL INFANTES/AFP AFP via Getty Images Next-generation technologies such as artificial intelligence are working well as proofs of concept and small-scale, highly focused applications such as chatbots or predictive analytics. Now, it’s time to scale these technologies to the point where they can move the enterprise […] Written by imesocial July 10, 2020July 10, 2020
IT Technology Leadership In A Post-Pandemic World Requires More Than Supporting Remote Work What’s missing in your transformation strategy? Getty Given the turmoil of the past several months, it’s clear that we’re entering a new era in our history. Organizations have the opportunity to refresh their company’s mission, products and practices during this transition. What should we be doing and whom will we look to for leadership during […] Written by imesocial July 10, 2020July 10, 2020
IT Technology 8 Keys To Developing An Effective Foreign Investment Review Mechanism EU President of Council Charles Michel (2nd-R) and European Commission President Ursula von der … [+] Leyen (C) arrive to give a joint press conference after a G7 Leaders’ videoconference on COVID-19 at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 16, 2020. – Ursula von der Leyen on March 16 proposed that the EU close […] Written by imesocial July 10, 2020July 10, 2020
IT Technology Why Joe Biden’s National Innovation Agenda Needs More Innovation Presidential candidate Joe Biden recently announced “Innovate in America” as part of his larger economic plan. This is an important move in the right direction at a time when our national innovation agenda is suffering from neglect and worse. A nation’s ability to fulfill its destiny and to advance depends on its ability to innovate. This is why […] Written by imesocial July 10, 2020July 10, 2020
IT Technology Digital Transformation Isn’t About ERP Anymore, It’s About Automation With Machine Learning As long as ERP-based automation is confined to the automation of processes embedded in ERP applications, the ERP world will lag behind next generation digital transformation. Toy forklift hold wood letter block P to complete word ERP (Abbreviation of Enterprise Resource … [+] Planning) on white background Getty Pre-Covid-19 Digital Transformation Not so many years […] Written by imesocial July 9, 2020July 9, 2020
IT Technology Western Digital Data Center 16-20 TB HDDs Western Digital announced updates in their nearline data center hard disk drive (HDD) portfolio. The new sealed helium filled HDDs have capacities of 16 and 18 TB, implement a version of energy assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) and use three pivot points to place heads on the disk surfaces. These technologies are being used in WDC’s Ultrastar and […] Written by imesocial July 9, 2020July 9, 2020
IT Technology Working And Innovating Virtually With No Corporate Address? Been There, Done That Innovation doesn’t care where you sit. Getty Think about this: for decades now, some of the most innovative and game-changing organizations on the planet have operated completely remotely and virtually from day one, releasing product after product, without even paying their participants. We’re talking about open source software communities, which have delivered some of the […] Written by imesocial July 8, 2020July 8, 2020
How to IT Technology How To Use Intelligent Pricing To Create An Aftermarket Profit Center istock Bottom Line: Manufacturers need to turn spare parts businesses into profit centers using intelligent pricing, protecting margins and creating a reliable source of revenue in these challenging times. While this pandemic is impacting revenue across all manufacturers, it’s the automotive aftermarket manufacturers who paradoxically have among the best conditions to spin out a spare […] Written by imesocial July 8, 2020July 8, 2020
IT Technology The Pandemic Has Redefined Work, Now We Are Going To Have To Adapt The Workplace (Photo by Alexander Pohl) NurPhoto via Getty Images The Japanese technology multinational Fujitsu, which has a workforce of more than 80,000 in Japan, has announced “Work Life Shift”, a program that offers its workers in the country flexible hours and working from home as a first option whenever possible. In addition, it will halve its […] Written by imesocial July 8, 2020July 8, 2020
IT Technology Hallo Raises $1.4 Million To Create The Future Of Language Learning Learning a new language is difficult and time-consuming. Yet, once one does so, one’s ability to appreciate and experience a culture is fundamentally augmented. Whether someone heads to Ibiza for vacation or conducts business in Beijing, being able to speak the native language enhances one’s interactions. Benjamin Dent, 30, and Joon Beh, 29, are two […] Written by imesocial July 8, 2020July 8, 2020
IT Technology Cisco Partners With Brazilian Government To Digitize Brazil Cisco Newsroom Government of Brazil signs agreement to boost digitization Cisco Cisco Systems is a company that’s developed a reputation for having one of the most wide-reaching and successful CSR programs. The networking giant invests heavily in the global communities it operates in, through job creation, skills training, disaster response, non-profit partnerships, and much more. […] Written by imesocial July 8, 2020July 8, 2020
IT Technology What’s The Biggest Data Threat For Businesses? (It’s Not What You Think) The enormous amount of data being generated every day is changing our world, and has given rise to a term most of us are now familiar with: big data. The sheer volume of data available is just one of the many challenges in working with big data. But perhaps the biggest data threat is one […] Written by imesocial July 8, 2020July 8, 2020
CoronaVirus IT Technology An Inside Look At Cloudera’s Strategy For Helping Businesses Weather The Covid-19 Storm Cindy Maike, Cloudera VP of Industry Solutions Cloudera If you’ve been following my coverage the last several months, you know I’ve been spending a lot of time examining the tech industry’s response to the Covid-19 global pandemic which hit the country with force in March. After some time, I realized I was falling into using […] Written by imesocial July 7, 2020July 7, 2020
IT Technology This Machine Learning-Focused VC Firm Just Added A Third Woman Investment Partner Basis Set Ventures investment partners Chang Xu, Lan Xuezhao and Sheila Vashee are looking to run a … [+] different kind of venture capital firm. Basis Set Ventures Basis Set Ventures doesn’t want to be your typical venture capital firm. First, there’s the fledgling VC firm’s focus on a technical area that has seen some […] Written by imesocial July 7, 2020July 7, 2020
IT Technology House Proposes $600 Billion In Infrastructure Spending For Networks That Private Providers Would Otherwise Deliver Aerial shot above a variety of freight trucks, New Jersey, United States of America Getty Giveaways to industry in the name of the common good are common in election years, but it’s worth looking at the proposed $100 billion for wireline networks and $500 billion for highways. These House bills have a clear set of […] Written by imesocial July 7, 2020July 7, 2020
IT Technology Gartner’s Top 25 Enterprise Software Startups To Watch In 2020 istock Despite a down year for enterprise software spending, revenue from cloud-based enterprise apps will grow 6.8% this year according to Gartner. There are 15,761 startups who either compete in or rely on enterprise software technologies and solutions as a core part of their business models today 1,949 of which have received pre-seed or seed […] Written by imesocial July 7, 2020July 7, 2020
IT Technology Why Infusing AI Into IT Operations Is More About The Data Than About AI Itself Almost every CIO I talk to boldly claims their enterprise is a “data-driven enterprise.” However, a recent Global CEO outlook by KPMG survey tells a completely different story: 67% of the CEOs worldwide (that number jumps to 78% in the US) suggest that they ignored the data-driven analytic and predictive models provided by their CIO/IT teams because […] Written by imesocial July 6, 2020July 6, 2020