Jobs are increasingly hard to come by on Wall Street. But locales like Baton Rouge and Cheyenne are posting "Help Wanted" signs for investment professionals. The prospective employers? Public pension funds, many of which continue to hire to fill current positions or in some cases new...
Salesforce.com reaches record quarterly revenues of $290 million despite the recession, and marks more than $1 billion in revenue for the entire year, according to financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended Jan. 31. The cloud computing CRM specialist posted net profits of $13.75...
It’s clear that CIOs won’t be on a spending spree this year, but they still have a number of big budgeting priorities. CIO Insight’s 2009 IT Spending study sheds light on where IT leaders are directing dollars for application software and systems. See slideshow here...
In the face of a challenging economy, IT organizations are under unprecedented pressure to cut costs. At the same time, they are tasked with the smooth operation of the data center, which is becoming more complex all the time as a result of continual consolidation,...
After the election, I wrote enthusastically about the potential for the Obama Administration to deploy Government 2.0 by using the same tech-niques that drove the campaign. But as the Washington Post reports, the idea is running hard aground the reality of White House technology and protocol. Obama,...
Boer says Milwaukee's stable image an advantage for law firm In the world of international law, it's almost "sexy" to be from Wisconsin. It's even a competitive advantage. That might sound laughable if it wasn't coming from Ralf-Reinhard Boer, chairman of Foley & Lardner LLP, the biggest...
Manufacturers and retailers lead the way in using up-to-the-minute point-of-sale data to avoid stock-outs and overproduction. In the perfume business, it's new products, like last year's U.S. launch of Kate, a fragrance Coty branded for supermodel Kate Moss, that can make or break a company's year....
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama announced Monday he has tapped Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius for Department of Health and Human Services secretary and Nancy Ann DeParle as Director of the White House Office for Health Reform. If Sebelius is confirmed by the Senate, she would help...
Health care information professionals say the success of the economic stimulus package's $19 billion investment in electronic health records rides on the development of technology standards. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act gives that job to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST will...
Skin cells transformed without worrisome use of viruses Scientists have developed what appears to be a safer way to create a promising alternative to embryonic stem cells, boosting hopes that such cells could sidestep the moral and political quagmire that has hindered the development of a...