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IoT revenues up 15%; cloud computing a big driver

Donal Power / Connected Devices, Deals, Fintech, Health, Industrial, Smart Cities, Transport

A new report shows healthy revenues for 21 benchmarked Internet of Things (IoT) companies in the last quarter of 2015, with revenue growing by almost 15% to levels approaching $7 billion. Cloud computing and IT infrastructure are especially potent drivers of IoT revenues, as vendors help companies cope with ever increasing rivers of data. In […]

Enterprise outlook: partly cloudy with a chance of fear

David Curry / Connected Devices, Fintech, Health, Industrial, Smart Cities, Transport

The world of enterprise is still on the cautious side when it comes to new technologies, according to a survey conducted at the recent Oracle Collaborate 2016 conference in Las Vegas. Analyst Joe McKendrick wrote in ZDNet that while almost all businesses at the event knew about big data, cloud, IoT, and mobile and its […]

Smart cities market to double to $1.4 trillion by 2020

Amanda Razani / Smart Cities

According to a recently published report by Grand View Research, the global smart cities market will hit $1.4 trillion in 2020, nearly triple the global market size of $568 billion back in 2013. The main factors leading to this increase are the rapidly expanding population, speedy urbanization and industrialization. Smart cities are designed and built to cater to a […]

Will IIoT bolster industrial automation investments?

Donal Power / Deals, Industrial

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is proving to be a game-changer in many fields, none more structurally than in the automation industry. And a recent study by Morgan Stanley reinforces bullish sentiment for future automation investment thanks to the huge potential of IIoT. A new report co-authored by Automation World and Morgan Stanley predicts […]

Zapier Introduces Multi-Step Zaps

Cate Lawrence / Connected Devices, Fintech, Grow, Health, Industrial, Smart Cities, Transport

Easy automation for synching your apps

Android N To Use Oracle’s OpenJDK For Java APIs

Cate Lawrence / Code, Connected Devices, Fintech, Health, Industrial, Smart Cities, Transport

Google replaces JDK with Open JDK

Amazon’s Cloud Business Is Worth At Least $70 Billion

Matt Asay / Cloud

AWS is on a tear, and it’s ripping up legacy tech vendors.

Meritocracy, My Back End

tom hogan / Lead

An early Oracle employee says Silicon Valley still doesn’t play fair with women or minorities.

Supreme Court Refuses To Decide If APIs Are Copyrightable

david nield / Code

High court denies Google’s appeal in Oracle case.

How Open Source Succeeds In The Cloud—It Trades Freedom For Simplicity

Matt Asay / Cloud

As demonstrated by Amazon and Microsoft.

Applications Drive The Biggest Money In Big Data

Matt Asay / Work

We’re still fixating on all the wrong Big Data startups. Hortonworks, one of the primary companies behind Hadoop, recently went public to great fanfare and a $1.2 billion valuation. But Hortonworks and the rest of the so-called Big Data startups are actually some of the least interesting Big Data companies. In fact, of the current […]