IBM launches cloud video unit
IBM has acquired Ustream as it sets out its stall to take on both Amazon and Netflix for cloud video market. The acquisition will be merged with three other IBM acquisitions,...
Will B2B online payments work?
The World Economic forum in Davos is the ideal event to launch a new B2B payments solution. SAP and First Data have done just that, announcing the roll out of AribaPay...
Infor finds ally with Kurt Salmon in Retail
At InforumEU last year Stephan Scholl spoke about the need for the Infor Channel to become change managers for customers in their move to supporting the digital economy. This is a...
Good causes get $1bn cloud from Microsoft
Microsoft Philanthropies has announced that it will donate up to $1 billion in cloud computing resources in the next 3 years to 70,000 non-profits and NGOs worldwide. The announcement was made both...
FreeBee, an innovation in Mobile marketing?
Verizon has launched the the beta trial of FreeBee Data service. The new service might just enables companies to reach sections of the US population with marketing information that it may...
Password choices not getting better
SplashData has trawled through 2 million hacked passwords that were subsequently released publicly to find the top 25 bad passwords of 2015. There are no surprises in the list which really...
Infor grabs hold of Predictix
In a move that may lead to the possible acquisition of Predictix, Infor has placed a significant investment in the born-in-the-cloud predictive retail analytics company. The $25 million stake purchases a minority...
CyrusOne hooks into Megaport
CyrusOne has announced a deal with Megaport to deliver Software Defined Networking (SDN) services across all CyrusOne data centres in the US. The deal furthers Megaport's expansion plans inside the US...
12-step action plan for GDPR
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is causing concern for companies as they struggle to plan for its implementation according to the latest survey to be published (registration required). The...
Google gets tighter to Level 3
In a brief announcement Level 3 Communications revealed that it has reached a multi-year interconnection agreement with Google. The agreement is settlement free and is centred around the concept of a...
