Mobile Applications

Microsoft pitched its plan to move from selling packaged software with one-time license revenue to selling subscriptions to software for recurring revenue.

Renewed uncertainty about the timing of Fed rate increases means that CFOs with international exposure need to do some careful thinking about the timing of their currency hedges.

The company is embracing developers who once shunned the Windows platform in favor of competing platforms , and even predicts there will be 1 billion Windows 10 devices in use within three years.

Baidu’s efforts to adapt to the shift to mobile showed signs of paying off but the heavy spending on mobile products hurt the Chinese search giant’s profit in the first quarter.

After just 16 months and a fleeting stint as a popular app, the anonymous social-networking service Secret is shutting down.

Didier Bonnet, senior vice president and global practice leader at Capgemini Consulting, suggests CIOs give up 5% of their IT budget to chief digital officers to perform such digital transformation work. To pay for new things, “you have to stop doing [other] things,” he said.

Pilots at American Airlines are being told to delete and reload an app that provides navigational charts on their company-issued iPads after a software glitch led to flight delays.

Microsoft is reaching out to software developers who have ignored Windows in a sign that the company is pulling out all the stops to keep its flagship product relevant.

In the latest attempt to make it easier for investors to understand—and challenge—companies over their executive-pay practices, the SEC is set to propose rules that would force firms to disclose how pay for top brass tracks the firm’s financial results.