In the largest tech deal in history by far, Dell and partners MSD Partners and Silver Lake agreed to buy EMC today for $67 billion or $33.15 a share. This is way over the price of $27 and change that was being rumored last week,...
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...
Shipments of personal computers fell nearly 11 percent last quarter, to the shock of almost no one. Sales have been declining for so long — 14 consecutive quarters — that it is becoming harder to remember a time when PCs ruled the tech world. The prolonged...
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....
Analysts Explore Next Phases of Digital Business at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2015, October 4-8 in OrlandoGartner's Maverick Research Sparks New, Unconventional Insights Gartner, Inc. claims to define the "programmable economy". The programmable economy represents a massive technology-enabled transformation of traditional concepts of value exchange, empowering individuals and...
Worldwide IT spending to surpass $3.6 trillion in 2016, a 1.5 percent increase from 2015 Worldwide IT spending is forecast to surpass $3.6 trillion in 2016, a 1.5 percent increase from 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. The IT industry is being driven by digital business, and...
Gartner says by 2017 the typical IT organization will spend up to 30% of its budget on risk, security and compliance On some level it may seem incongruous to many IT organizations but as security challenges mount, enterprises should take a look at their protection systems...
Amid technology upheaval in almost every industry, there is one trend that appears clear: IT departments are fighting more external and internal competition than ever before, and colleagues that are IT’s customers today could end up coming after their budget and jobs tomorrow....
More than half of the physicians who bill Medicare in the U.S. are currently being penalized 1 percent of their 2015 payments as a result of the meaningful use program, according to Steven J. Stack, MD, president of the American Medical Association. "Imagine, in a world...