8 years ago046Yahoo’s announcement that state-sponsored hackers have stolen the details of at least 500 million accounts shocks both through scale—it’s the largest data breach ever—and the potential security implications for users.
That’s because Yahoo, unlike MySpace, LinkedIn and other online services that suffered large breaches in...
8 years ago051Yahoo confirmed Thursday information on at least 500 million users has been stolen in a massive cyber breach.
The breach, first reported by Re/Code, was later confirmed by Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer Bob Lord.
We have confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company's network in...
8 years ago053Larry Ellison continued his assault on Amazon during his second keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld on Tuesday.
"Amazon Web Services are simply not optimized for the Oracle Database. I'll go further than that: Amazon Web Services aren't optimized for their own databases either, as you will see," he said, while displaying a set of...
8 years ago067The Yoox Net-A-Porter group has appointed Deborah Lee as its new chief people officer.
Starting her new role in January 2017, Lee will be responsible for defining the HR vision of the company – which owns online retailers Net-A-Porter, Yoox and Mr Porter – through culture, leadership and management strategies.
She will also...
8 years ago061New analytics capability makes Salesforce the 'smartest CRM in the world'
Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) is one company that knows how to stay in the news. Hot on the heels of Oracle’s (NYSE:ORCL) OpenWorld conference, Salesforce launched Einstein, its artificial intelligence platform, two hours before Oracle’s big event kicked...
8 years ago057As part of its push to be a major provider of cloud computing services, Oracle plans cloud applications that adapt and learn from the data that they process.
Oracle kicked off its Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Sept. 19 with news of a major artificial intelligence initiative that enables enterprise cloud applications to...
8 years ago055Oracle will acquire LogFire, a provider of cloud-based warehouse management applications, with the aim of boosting the features of its supply chain management cloud offering.
The Redwood Shores, Calif. software and cloud giant expects that adding the LogFire applications will complement the logistics functionality of its Oracle Supply...
8 years ago051Oracle has a lot of catching up to do in the cloud.
If Barnes & Noble said it was going to undercut Amazon on book sales, would you believe them?
The same may go for Oracle and cloud services. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Sept. 20 that his company’s new database-as-a-service is faster and cheaper than Amazon Web Services,...
8 years ago051Google Fiber is reportedly well short of goal to get 5 million subscribers.
Google Fiber has reportedly fallen "well short" of its goal of signing up 5 million subscribers and may be on the verge of making significant staff cuts.
"Last month, Alphabet CEO Larry Page ordered Google Fiber’s chief, Craig Barratt, to halve the size...
8 years ago049When Business Insider asked experts what they thought would change the financial industry in the next decade, nearly all said automation. But while some saw humans being replaced, others thought the tech will make humans better.
We surveyed chief technology officers, chief innovation officers, startup founders, and venture capitalists...
8 years ago048Never mind — at least, for now.
That’s what the Social Security Administration told those with online “mySocialSecurity” accounts, two weeks after announcing that they would be required to have cellphones to receive security code texts in order to log on to the accounts.
Social Security recipients can use the online...
8 years ago043Kerio Technologies, the leading provider of communications and security solutions, announced the launch of a new Kerio Cloud infrastructure to support channel partners selling to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).
Kerio Cloud combines Kerio’s award-winning messaging and collaboration capabilities with an automated provisioning,...