Tag: software
LONDON (Reuters) – These days the average researcher at Philips is more likely to be a software developer than an product engineer, reflecting a transformation at the former Dutch conglomerate that its chief executive says will gather pace. “It’s a huge shift,” Frans van Houten told Reuters, noting that around 60 percent of the healthcare […]
(Reuters) – Communications software provider Twilio Inc is expected to price its $140 million U.S. initial public offering on Wednesday, a rare technology stock market debut, one day before Britain holds a referendum on its European Union membership. Twilio’s software is used by large companies such as car-hailing service Uber to allow drivers to speak […]
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Software produced by a little-known Australian developer has helped journalists piece together news leads from the mountains of data found in the contents of the Panama Papers, one of the biggest document leaks in history. Sydney-based Nuix Pty Ltd donated its document analysis program to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) […]
(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Monday it bears “some responsibility” after one of its self-driving cars struck a municipal bus in a minor crash earlier this month. The crash may be the first case of one of its autonomous cars hitting another vehicle and the fault of the self-driving car. The Mountain View, […]
(Reuters) – FireEye Inc forecast a bigger-than-expected loss for the first quarter and said it expected growth in cyber security spending to slow this year. Shares of FireEye, which reported smaller-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue, fell 3.4 percent in after-hours trading on Thursday. FireEye Chief Executive Dave DeWalt said sales across the industry were boosted by “emergency […]
BERLIN (Reuters) – A new software platform that helps major fashion brands offload excess stock to booming discount outlets like those run by TJX promises to improve margins for a business that many like to keep quiet for fear of undermining full-price sales. “Especially for upscale brands, it is not something they want to publicize, […]
Have you ever wondered why most of the vulnerabilities in computing and mobile devices are found by hackers and security companies? I guess that’s pretty logical when you consider the hacker’s sole aim in life is to hack into systems, presumably to show how clever they are, and security firms depend on sales of their […]
PARIS (Reuters) – A tiny piece of data needed to run the West’s largest turboprop engines is at the centre of a complex chain of events under scrutiny following an Airbus A400M military plane crash last month, several people familiar with the matter said. The troop and cargo carrier crashed outside Seville, Spain, on May […]
PARIS/HELSINKI/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Nokia’s acquisition of smaller rival Alcatel-Lucent may avoid the pitfalls that befell earlier telecom network equipment marriages, thanks to a revolution over the past decade in how products are launched and developed. The brains and brawn of telecom networks today lie in software, which is programmable and flexible, and not in customised […]
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