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Manage Email SubscriptionsGoogle is giving owners of Android smartphones the power to open and search through apps using voice commands.
Three years after it made a splash with its novel approach to news delivery, the mobile news app Circa said it is putting itself up for sale.
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.
Anheuser-Busch has ceased making a Bud Light label that said, “The perfect beer for removing ‘no’ from your vocabulary for the night,” after it provoked Internet ire for being rather tone-deaf about rape and sexual assault.
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.
The San Francisco-based startup had raised $35 million from investors including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Google Ventures.
The database software that serves flight information to the iPad app had created a duplicate chart for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, forcing the iPad app to shut down, delaying some flights on Tuesday.
Companies are recognizing competitive advantages in reducing application deployment times.“There is no appetite anywhere… in the world to survive in a methodology that says ‘Hang on, I’ll get that to you in 24 months,” said Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CIO Brook Colangelo.
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.
The emergence in the mainstream of software development methodologies long used in Silicon Valley comes as companies struggle to develop a mobile, digital business. They need to get closer to their customers and constantly update their products.
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.
Humana knows that its financial health is tied to the well-being of its members. It wanted to develop mobile apps that would influence their behavior. First, it had to make some changes of its own.