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I'm getting increasingly concerned that Tesla will go under and set back the electric car industry a decade or more. At the beginning of the last century, electric, steam and gas all competed for the automotive industry, resulting in far more advancements in gas cars than electric over the decades. Thankfully, no one has brought back steam. The...

There's an emerging theme in sales and marketing that I expect will be important for a while and could influence some of the messaging associated with upcoming events like Salesforce's Dreamforce and Oracle's OpenWorld Each company will have lots to say about security, analytics, and machine learning, the Internet of Things, and blockchain, but wha...

AdTheorent, which offers a machine learning platform for advertisers, on Thursday announced AdTheorent Relationship Targeting This new product allows advertisers to harness the power of relationships with family members, cohabitants or friends to influence a consumer to take desired actions....

Shopping: It's not what it once was. Forget the long drive to the mall and countless hours of browsing. Customers now simply log in from the comfort of their own home to have the world at their fingertips. The massive uptake of e-commerce is an unprecedented shift in consumer behavior, expectations and purchases. The evidence is in the numbers: In...

There's a rumor in circulation that Amazon has been working on a DVR that would allow users to record live TV and then stream that content to a smartphone and other mobile devices Amazon aims to mount a direct challenge to DVR pioneer TiVo -- a company that was at the forefront of digital video recording 20 years ago -- according to a flurry of rep...

Braavo Capital on Tuesday announced it has raised US$6 million in Series A funding, led by E.ventures with participation from SWS Venture Capital and Bill Smith, CEO of Shipt. The company also converted $2 million in seed capital from investors including SV Angel and BoxGroup, bringing the total equity raised to date to nearly $8 million....

Facebook on Tuesday announced it has removed more than 650 Facebook and Instagram pages, groups, and accounts originating in Iran and Russia for "coordinated inauthentic behavior." The goal is to improve the trustworthiness of Facebook connections....

Quirky Linux is a classic example of what makes Linux such a varied and useful operating system....

Atlatl Software on Monday unveiled its bCommerce Visual Configurator, which gives manufacturers access to the company's 3D Visual Configurator via Web browsers B2B buyers can use the Visual Configurator on manufacturers' websites to make selections and pass them on to the manufacturers' sales reps in real time....

Microsoft on Monday said it has torpedoed a pair of websites designed to steal credentials from visitors to two Republican Party think tanks The malicious websites were among six the company took down last week. A group of hackers affiliated with the Russian military created the sites, according to Microsoft. The group apparently was the same group...

Telling an engaging and effective story is vitally important for the success of a business. A good story draws people in, fosters loyalty, and brings your brand alive "It's important for brands to tell their story because the story is what actually resonates with humans," said storytelling communication instructor Nathan Cody Young....

No one at Oracle will ever be nominated for sainthood, and that's probably OK with them. Over the years the company has developed a bad boy image that in some cases is richly deserved, while in others it has been embellished by events Much derives from the brash doings of founder and longtime CEO (now CTO) Larry Ellison who, from all appearances, m...

Arturo Bentin is senior vice president of strategic engagement at Optymyze Optymyze works with companies globally to provide sales performance management solutions, including the management of sales compensation, sales quotas, sales territories and sales objectives. Based on a subscription model, Optymyze offers cloud applications, setup services, ...

The healthcare cloud has been growing incredibly, becoming an ever-more-important element of health information technology, or HIT. There are many reasons why the HIT cloud has been becoming more prominent, such as research and development and collaboration. Since the cloud has been expanding so rapidly, this may be a good time to reconsider secur...

There's a lot of hype around artificial intelligence as the greatest thing since sliced bread, but will AI really help with cybersecurity? Criminals who run cybercriminal businesses also are capable of using the AI to commit crimes. It's logical that if one person is smart enough to develop cyberprotection technologies that utilize AI, then thoughtful, creative criminals can use AI to penetrate those AI-created protections...

When I read the book Ready Player One, I really got excited about the future of virtual reality, but the movie really didn't do the book justice. Some blockbusters have succeeded in interspersing computer graphics with real people and making it hard to tell the difference. Still, a totally rendered movie still looks like animation and you just don't get the film quality you get from, well, film. ...

The City of Sunrise Firefighters' Pension Fund recently filed a lawsuit alleging that Oracle executives lied about the company's successes in the cloud and engaged in coercion and threats to sell its cloud products, "creating an unsustainable model that fell apart." I don't understand everything about the new lawsuit, as I am not an attorney.

Google on Wednesday announced the availability of Google One as a storage upgrade option for people in the United States The option will become available in other countries within the next few weeks....

As a reporter, I cover a number of beats, including those related to advances in TV production and the technology that brings TV to our homes. In my lifetime, I've seen some of the most significant advances in television, and unlike many who take it for granted, I have a very deep respect for TV My actual birthday is in January, but Aug. 21 is a da...

Oracle on Wednesday announced that it has open-sourced GraphPipe to enhance machine learning applications The project's goal is to improve deployment results for machine learning models, noted Project Leader Vish Abrams. That process includes creating an open standard....