How Wendy’s Innovated the Digital Journey To Improve the Customer Experience

“Speed and convenience and really driving consistency of operations are core themes,” says Wendy’s CEO Todd Penegor. “You think about how you can continue to drive speed. The digital journey is a big one. How do we drive folks into mobile ordering? How do we drive awareness on...
Posted On 09 Nov 2019
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CynergisTek Acquires Backbone Enterprises to Consolidate Its Position As a Leader In Cybersecurity

CynergisTek, Inc. has announced its acquisition of Backbone Enterprises, Inc. (DBA Backbone Consultants), a leading provider of IT risk advisory services. CynergisTek is a cybersecurity company specializing in the healthcare industry. Since 2004, the company has helped hundreds...
Posted On 08 Nov 2019
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SAP and Verizon Partnering to Develop Next-Gen IoT Analytics Solution

SAP and Verizon have announced a collaboration to help applications process data where it is generated, thanks to Verizon’s network and SAP’s edge computing platform. Edge computing allows companies to reduce data processing time by processing the data collected by Internet of...
Posted On 25 Oct 2019
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Microsoft Looking For Help From Linux Developers to Port Edge to Linux

Microsoft’s Edge web browser has received generally positive reviews, and has proven to be a worthy successor to Internet Explorer and a solid contender among modern browsers. In December 2018, Microsoft announced its intention to abandon EdgeHTML as the browser’s rendering...
Posted On 05 Oct 2019
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Google Chrome Revealed As Cause of Mass Mac Pro Failure

Earlier this week, studios and video shops in Hollywood and around the country went into collective panic mode when their Mac Pro workstations refused to reboot. News started hitting Twitter September 24 as Mac Pros started slowly crashing and refusing to boot up again. Almost...
Posted On 26 Sep 2019
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Compass Launches Consumer Site With AI-Driven Recommendations, Says CEO

“We just launched a new consumer site that lets our agents collaborate with their clients,” says Compass founder and CEO Robert Reffkin. “It has features such as AI-driven recommendations exactly for the buyer. Based on everything that they’re searching it makes recommendations....
Posted On 17 Sep 2019
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YouTube settlement with FTC includes $170M fine, changes to how it monetizes children’s content

The company said it will stop serving up personalized ads on kid videos. YouTube has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and New York attorney general for allegedly violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), according to CNBC. The agreement...
Posted On 17 Sep 2019
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Imagine If IT Had One Tool To Fix Anything

“Imagine if IT had one tool to fix anything,” says the Chief Creatologist at Dell Technologies Joe Batista. “That’s nirvana. That’s not reality, because I have tool fatigue. I need to get to that simplicity. That’s public enemy number one for us. Now, today, with the influx of...
Posted On 26 Aug 2019
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50 Years Of Datacenter Shifting To Cloud, Says Dynatrace CEO

“You have 50 years of datacenter that is shifting to the cloud in the next ten,” says Dynatrace CEO John Van Siclen. “We are early days. There’s a lot of room to go and I’m sure a lot of changes in front of us. The movement to the cloud and this whole move to software is a global...
Posted On 02 Aug 2019
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It Doesn’t Really Matter What Microsoft Does, Says Slack CEO

“Whatever Microsoft does we’re still going to do the same thing that we would do for customers,” says Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield. “If the performance of our applications, like the number of milliseconds it takes to startup, is an important thing for customers, we will do that....
Posted On 17 Jul 2019
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