Technology Digest 2018
Technology industry leaders call for decisive action to attract, engage and retain the brightest and best staff to combat its current employment crisis.
That’s the key message from a senior-level roundtable hosted by enterprise feedback management specialists. Experts and leaders from across the industry discussed in depth these key challenges, outlining seven critical actions needed to attract and retain talent and adapt to the changing world. These include improving the industry’s image, widening diversity and increasing the opportunities for staff, particularly millennials, to give and receive feedback.
GovTech: Mid-Tier Government Contractors Claim 26.8% of the Market Share in Fiscal Year 2017
Industrial Manufacturers Turning to AI to “Turbocharge” Products and Services
European Venture Ecosystem on Track to Match 2017 Total VC Deal Activity
Robots Create Jobs
Biofuel Accessible to Everyone: Biocoal alternative fuel for power production and heating
CE Week 2018: Conference Program Looks at the Digitalization of Everything
The Startup Competition for Deep Tech Scaleups: The EIT Digital Challenge 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Thrive in Logistics
Next Generation Open RAN Architecture
Global IT Spending to Grow 6.2 Percent in 2018, State of the IT Market
Seegrid’s self-driving vehicles have reached 1 million production miles at customer sites without a single personnel safety incident
IEEE Approves Standards Project for Quantum Computing Definitions
U.S. IT Sector Adds 9,000 Jobs in March
Ultra HD Forum Releases UHD Phase B Guidelines at NAB 2018
Technology Companies Complete HDR10+ Ecosystem in Hollywood
GSA Selects ICF for IT Modernization Contracts
Customers Flocking to AWS for Machine Learning Services
InsurTech: Cape Analytics Launches AI-Driven, Property Intelligence Solution for Insurers Nationwide
Technology Digest, March 2018
Siemens Expanding Investments in U.S. Digital Capabilities Including $175 Million R&D Ramp Up
Apple today announced a new 9.7-inch iPad for education market
HUAWEI P20 and HUAWEI P20 Pro, Breakthroughs in Technology and Art to Redefine Intelligent Photography
Kinetica Now Available on NVIDIA GPU Cloud
Salesforce to Acquire MuleSoft for $6.5 Billion
Facial animation technology company promises a new paradigm of real-time digitization that is causing video game companies to radically alter how they produce content
Samsung Enables Premium Multimedia Features in High-End Smartphones With Exynos 7 Series 9610: The Exynos 9610 supports deep learning-based visual processing and 480 fps slow-motion recording
Galaxy S9+ Materials Cost $43 More Than Previous Versions: Better camera and higher DRAM memory prices increase overall bill of materials costs
Investment in Insurtech Industry Surged in 2017, with Europe Emerging as Key Insurtech Hub
Wolves Summit, an international conference for startups, 9-11th April, 2018, Warsaw, Poland
IBM’s new, industry-specific, machine-readable data sets designed to expedite AI training workflows; first kits will serve travel, transportation and food Industries
Xilinx Technology Enables 5G for Hyper-Connected Urban Society at University of Bristol Smart Internet Lab
European Patent Office Annual Report 2017: Patent Applications From the UK Keep Growing
IBC Calls for the Best in Innovation: Call for Entries now open for the media, entertainment and technology industry’s most influential awards
IoT Solutions World Congress 2018 seeks the 10 best projects of the year for its testbeds area
Analyst Briefing: Government Blockchains at MWC18
Industry Leaders Launch ORAN Alliance
SK Telecom to Invest in ID Quantique, the Global Leader in Quantum-Safe Crypto Solutions
Federal IT Modernization: Potential for APIs, DevOps, Microservices, and Open Source Software to Overcome Legacy Lockup
Coty Launches Digital Accelerator Startup Program
Yield Lab Targets AgTech Startups With €800,000 Investment Opportunity
Silicon STEM Academy Launches New Spring Break Camps to Help Students Find Their Passion in Technology
China Quickly Gaining on the Rest of the World in Innovation
2017 Recorded Strong Venture Capital Exit Activity Across North America and Europe
Emerging IoT Standards for New Energy Applications
The European venture capital (VC) industry finished strong in 2017 with €16.9 billion invested across 3,306 deals
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit 2018, March 14 2018, Tel Aviv
GovTech Trends 2018
CyberTech 2018: Israeli Cybersecurity Technology is Becoming a Global Force to Reckon With
#Wireless Networks Are Not as Fast, Secure, Reliable, The U.S. Should Invest in Hard-Wired #Telecom Infrastructure to Support Economic Growth, Says New Report
Canon and Nikon Fail to Deliver Full Frame Mirrorless
More birth defects seen in parts of U.S. with local Zika spread
Arundo #Analytics Raises $25M Series A Funding
Platform Matching #Brands with #SocialMedia Users Greenfly Secures $8.5 Million Series B Financing Round
Snowflake, the #datawarehouse built for the #cloud, raises $263 Million
Artificial Intelligence (#AI) could boost revenues by 38%, employment by 10% by 2022
US #Government Report Strengthens Consensus on #Biodiesel Benefits
#Blockchain Technology Market to Triple by 2022
US #VideoGame Industry Revenue Reaches $36 Billion in 2017, up 18 percent from 2016
Cumulative Global IT Spending to Reach $15.8 Trillion in 2019-2022 growing at CAGR 5.2%
Monthly #VC Financing Digest, January 2017
Global IT Spending to Reach $3.7 Trillion in 2018, an increase of 4.5% from 2017, according to Gartner
Maersk and IBM to Form Joint Venture Applying #Blockchain to Improve Global Trade and Digitize Supply Chains
Media Giants Agree on Common HDR Platform
At #CES2018 #Android Laptop And Phone Hybrid is Most Awarded Razer Concept
CES 2018 officially wrapped today
European #DeepTech Ventures to Watch out for in 2018
The 4th Annual Video Showcase will address the theme: “Transforming the #STEM Education Landscape”, May 14-21 2018
Zika Virus vaccine shows significantly higher immune response with Needle-free delivery
2018 #Tech Industry Revenue to Reach Record $351 Billion
#CES 2018: Artificial Intelligence (#AI), Sports #Tech, Smart Cities, Design & Source, High Tech Retailing and Digital Money
Good fences make good neighbors but it’s more about border security technology
11th annual Border Security Conference, 21-22 February 2018, Rome
2017 Record Year for London and UK #Tech Investment
Augmented reality (#AR) and virtual reality (#VR) technologies are positioned for record growth in 2018
#AI and #IoT Use Cases Will Drive Demand for Next-Gen Databases in 2018
Scientists Map the Genetic Code of Peanut
BIRD – Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial R&D Foundation to Invest $7.75 Million in 9 New Projects
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) in the New Report From The Economist
#Agritech: Speed breeding is a new technology to accelerate crops
#Semiconductor Fab Equipment Spending on Rise
#NoSQL: Workshop on how to use RavenDB 4.0
#OpenSource & #Linux Events in 2018
New #Technology Adoption Creating Potential #Employment Crisis in Europe
Sales Development as a Service Platform OutboundWorks Inc. Raises $2.25 Million
NodeSource Secures $17.5 Million in Series B Funding
#InsurTech: The 2nd Annual Connected Claims USA Summit, May 21st – 22nd, 2018, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Chinese Model gains traction in the global #manufacturing industry
General Fusion achieves first plasma in new machine
Apache Software Foundation (#ASF) Announces #Apache #Hadoop v3.0.0
Top 10 #Technology #Trends for 2018
IBM Announces Industry-Wide Collaboration to Accelerate #QuantumComputing
Vayyar Imaging Raises $45 Million Series C Financing Round
Conversational #AI Platform Kasisto Raises $17 Million in Series B #VentureCapital Round
#Startup Accelerator FounderTrac Announces its 2018 Cohort
Worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will increase 35.6 percent to US$55.9 billion in 2017
2018 Hot Consumer #Trends: #Technology Turns Human
The Linius Video Virtualization Engine™ (VVE) is now available on Amazon, IBM and Microsoft Azure
CEVT joins the startup accelerator MobilityXlab
Credible Raises $50 Million in Australian IPO
GE Power to Cut 12,000 Jobs Globally
