At its World of Watson event, IBM highlighted the expansion of its Watson cognitive computing platform. The company said that it has more than 270 new commercial partners and that
With competition for talent remaining fierce, many companies are offering unusual perks in an attempt to get developers to work for them. InfoWorld put together a roundup of some of
During this week’s EMC World 2015 event, Pivotal, a joint venture of EMC and VMware, announced some new additions to its Big Data Suite. The suite now includes a faster
App Annie has announced its purchase of Mobidia, a competing mobile analytics service headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Mobidia’s offices will become App Annie Canada, and all 30 Mobidia employees will
Fiksu’s iOS SDK. Fiksu has launched a new analytics service that will allow mobile development teams to monitor usage of their Apple Watch apps. Specifically, it can track launches, registrations,
In a new survey conducted by Robert Half Technology, 81 percent of 2,400 CIOs say that they expect their companies’ employees to be utilizing wearable devices for their jobs in
In addition to the Azure Data Lake, Microsoft announced a number of other cloud computing services at its Build 2015 event. They include the Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure SQL
At Build 2015, Microsoft announced a new cloud-based big data service called Azure Data Lake. The new cloud computing service gives developers a centralized location to store all of their
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that Apache Parquet has graduated from incubator status to become a top-level project. Parquet is a columnar Hadoop storage format used in many