‘It’s really becoming a big data game,’ says Crane Worldwide Logistics CIO Brannon Kuykendall, as pummeled businesses look to manage their inventory by closely tracking freight.
A key on your phone, voice-activated digital assistants that can dim the lights and order fresh towels, electrostatic sprayers—hotels are piling on tech workarounds to keep guests safe from Covid-19.
Digital companies making inroads in China could face heat should Beijing respond in kind to U.S. tactics.
Spending on cloud services is surging, as companies shift more business applications online to cope with extended Covid-19 lockdowns, social distancing and other restrictions.
Enterprise information-technology firms are rolling out software designed to help employers deal with a range of workplace issues arising from Covid-19.
Congressional lawmakers peppered the chief executives of Alphabet Inc., Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. with questions about their respective companies’ footprints and allegations of anticompetitive behavior.
The online health-care company has now raised $376 million.
The project will be funded by a portion of the $1.275 billion budget allocated as part of President Trump’s National Quantum Initiative, an effort to accelerate research and development in quantum information science.
Venture-capital funding for U.S. startups declined in the first half of the year, threatening a key source of information-technology innovation for larger companies.
Too much data but no reliable filter, a group says, promising actionable information on contact-tracing, the economic havoc caused by the virus, and more.
Risk-management and security startups are in the spotlight among venture capitalists in the wake of increased remote work and a rise in high-profile cyberattacks. And while current lockdowns and economic conditions may interfere with traditional deal making, a recent report tracking New York City-area startups reveals a surge of new funding through June.
Merger deals are rarely simple. But Satya Nadella now is attempting to ink a takeover agreement that satisfies not only both the companies and their shareholders, but two governments in bitter competition for technological clout.
The National Security Agency issued new guidance for military and intelligence-community personnel, warning about the risks of cellphone location tracking through apps, wireless networks and Bluetooth technology.
The chief executives of Amazon.com, Facebook, Apple and Google faced relentless criticism at a congressional hearing Wednesday, with Democrats and Republicans alike challenging their business practices.
The pandemic has made business more dependent on cloud-computing than ever—and companies are now racing to rein in the soaring costs.
The tech giant will keep its employees home until at least next July, making the search-engine giant the first major U.S. corporation to formalize such an extended timetable.
Thousands of companies will face restrictions on storing information about European Union residents on U.S. servers, after the bloc’s top court ruled that such transfers exposed Europeans to American government surveillance without “actionable rights” to challenge it.
Apple was also apparently hacked. It was latest in a series of security failures on the social-media platform.
The British government said it would bar telecom companies from purchasing new equipment made by China’s Huawei and gave them until 2027 to remove its technology from their 5G wireless networks, a sharp about-face that marks a significant victory for the U.S.
An audit commissioned by Facebook urged it to improve artificial intelligence-based tools it uses to help identify problematic content such as hate speech, showcasing the limits of technology in policing the world’s largest social media platform.
The social-media giant has been too reactive and slow in addressing hate speech, voter suppression and other problematic content on its platform, according to a report from lawyers hired by the company.
ByteDance is considering changing the corporate structure of its popular short-video app TikTok, as it comes under increasing scrutiny in its biggest markets over its Chinese ties.
The pandemic is speeding meatpackers’ shift from human meat cutters to automated ones, but machines can’t yet match people’s ability. While meat processing overall has grown safer in recent years, it remains one of the more hazardous jobs in the U.S. economy.
We asked corporate cybersecurity executives what their greatest concerns are right now. Here’s what they said.
Instacart has exploded in popularity during the pandemic. But the contract gig workers the grocery-delivery company relies on say they aren’t sharing in its success.
Palantir Technologies said it has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public, ending an extended wait that made the data analytics company one of Silicon Valley’s oldest private startups.
Google, Facebook and Twitter are among tech companies that have suspended processing requests for user data from Hong Kong law-enforcement agencies following China’s imposition of a national-security law on the city.
The Chinese maker of TikTok, the popular short-video platform, said it would pull its app out of Hong Kong amid concerns about a new national-security law, its second market exit in as many weeks.
The deal combines Uber Eats and Postmates and is the latest in a flurry of consolidation moves in the food-delivery sector.
Leaders of civil rights groups are meeting with Facebook executives after calling for an ad boycott of the platform for the month of July. Facebook, which has been under growing pressure to change and update some of its content and brand-safety policies, this week requested a new meeting with civil rights leaders.
Semiconductor Manufacturing International is preparing a $6.55 billion stock offering on Shanghai’s high-tech STAR market, as China moves to shore up its semiconductor capabilities amid heightened tensions with the U.S.
Google, Amazon and Facebook face proposed European rules aimed at curbing their alleged anticompetitive behavior, making them pay more taxes and compelling them to shoulder more responsibility for illegal content.
Startup Circadia Technologies has received FDA approval for a bedside device that remotely monitors breathing using artificial intelligence and that has been shown to help detect Covid-19 symptoms such as breathlessness.
Augmented reality, or AR, has transitioned during the pandemic from intriguing experiment to everyday tool, widening the industrial adoption of a technology that many in the tech industry argue hasn’t measured up to its promise in the consumer market.
The tech giant sees Teams, its group conferencing and collaboration software, as critical to its future. Some rivals say Microsoft has deployed sharp-elbowed business tactics to get in front.
