Samsung Offers Financial Incentives to Stem Note 7 Bleeding

9 years ago0335 Samsung Electronics on Thursday offered refunds or financial incentives for U.S. and South Korea customers who exchange Note 7s for other products, as the tech giant scrambles to shore up its reputation after a damaging phone safety crisis. The world's largest phone maker is also expanding a U.S. recall of the fire-prone model to a...

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Microsoft Will Launch Its Price War With Salesforce on November 1

9 years ago0338 Microsoft on Tuesday showed off the next incarnation of a major software product called Dynamics 365, stuffed full of new features and artificial intelligence. Microsoft has been teasing Dynamics 365 for a while now, as is its custom. On Tuesday the company announced that Dynamics 365 will be will be available to customers worldwide...

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Facebook Rolls Out Business Software, Launches Pricing War

9 years ago0372 Facebook Inc (FB.O) launched a workplace version of its mobile app and website on Monday, marking the social networking company's first foray into the hotly competitive and crowded enterprise software arena. The product, called Workplace by Facebook, has been in testing for more than a year and is now available to all businesses. It...

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Sumo Logic Delivers Machine Data Analytics to Microsoft Azure Marketplace

9 years ago0338 Sumo Logic, a leading cloud-native, machine data analytics service, announced it has joined the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, providing real-time business operational and security insights into infrastructures and modern applications running on Microsoft Azure. In addition, Sumo Logic has released two new certified offerings for Azure...

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Security Experts Urge Clients to Stop Using Yahoo Mail After Spying Report

9 years ago0320 Civil and human rights groups issued denunciations and some cybersecurity experts urged their clients to stop using the popular Yahoo Mail service after a news agency reported Tuesday that the internet service provider had secretly scanned hundreds of millions of clients’ emails at the behest of U.S. intelligence agencies. The...

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IDC: Big Data, Business Analytics Revenues to Hit $203B In 2020

9 years ago0487 Dive Brief: Big Data and business analytics revenues worldwide will grow from $130.1 billion in 2016 to more than $203 billion in 2020, according to a new IDC report. The banking, discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, federal/central government and professional services industries are driving the majority of the growth,...

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Women Underrepresented In Information Security Workforce

9 years ago0303 Women represent only 11% of the global information security workforce, including in financial services, despite a shortage of cybersecurity skilled personnel overall. Credit unions have to be more security-minded as staff and members connect through many devices. However, in seeking help, credit unions must realize that the...

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Big Data News: The Top Insights From Strata + Hadoop World 2016 In New York

9 years ago0330 Just about every player in the Big Data and analytics game was in New York last week at the Strata + Hadoop World conference, to showcase their latest technologies. Over 7,000 people attended the event where keynote speakers, including White House chief data scientist DJ Patil, laid out their visions for where machine learning,...

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Apple Opening a $45 Million Research Hub In China to Develop Hardware, 'Advanced' Tech

9 years ago0368 Apple is opening a 300 million yuan ($45 million) research and development center in Beijing, its first ever in China, as the U.S. technology giant looks to reverse declining sales in the country. The announcement was made on social media by the Zhongguancun Science Park Administrative Committee, the landlords that run the site where...

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Banks Adopting Blockchain 'Dramatically Faster' Than Expected: IBM

9 years ago0441 Banks and other financial institutions are adopting blockchain technology "dramatically faster" than initially expected, with 15 percent of top global banks intending to roll out full-scale, commercial blockchain products in 2017, IBM said on Wednesday. The technology company said 65 percent of banks expected to have blockchain...

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California Suspends ‘Business Relationships’ With Wells Fargo

9 years ago0334 California, the nation’s largest issuer of municipal bonds, is barring Wells Fargo & Co. from underwriting state debt and handling its banking transactions after the company admitted to opening potentially millions of bogus customer accounts. The suspension, in effect immediately, will remain in place for 12 months. A "permanent...

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These Are the Most Tax-Friendly States for Business

9 years ago0449 South, West mostly low-tax areas; Northeast has highest levies Wyoming and other states in the West and South offer the most business-friendly tax climates while the Northeast continues to lag well behind, according to an annual survey. In its 2017 report, the nonprofit Tax Foundation said Wyoming had the most pro-business tax...

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