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Dell's second annual Global Technology Adoption Index shows companies investing in big data, cloud, mobility, and security are enjoying about 50% faster revenue growth than their competitors that didn't invest. Companies that invest in big data are growing at a 50% faster rate than their competitors,...

Dell will buy the storage provider EMC in a deal worth about $67 billion, the companies said on Monday. It will be one of the largest takeovers in the history of the technology industry. Andas Nick Wingfield noted last week, the deal is the most...

Hospitals, health systems and other provider organizations are increasingly taking on more responsibility for the quality of care they provide, and they are being held accountable for that care over a longer period of time. Changes in how hospitals care for patients on an ongoing...

Aurora Health Care today announced the hiring of Preston Simons as the health care system's new Chief Information Officer. Simons, a veteran information technology executive, will lead Aurora's efforts using technology and innovative IT platforms and services to help it continue to deliver a high-quality,...

Every startup is built on a number of assumptions and undoubtedly some of them will be incorrect. At Dreamit, I’m always stressing the importance of accurately identifying those assumptions and de-risking them as early in the process as possible. A simple example I like to use...

The natively “smart" economic system has the potential to disrupt virtually every facet of the global economy. Gartner has raised the alert to prepare for the “programmable economy”, which it says has the potential to disrupt virtually every facet of the global economy. The “programmable economy” is...

Let’s face it: If we knew precisely why stock markets surge up, down and sideways at the drop of a hat, we would all be a lot richer. Such is the inexact science of trying to make sense of why the stock of Exact Sciences, a...

As technology giants accelerate humanity towards a driverless car future, where we are conditioned to keep our eyeballs on our devices while algorithms take the wheel and navigate the vagaries of the open road, safety questions crash headlong into ethical and philosophical considerations....