Quest Diagnostics’ Board-Level CIO Drives Data-Driven Services
Quest Diagnostics is a $7.5 billion provider of diagnostic testing information services. It collects vast amounts of data: twenty billion test results, one hundred fifty million medical test requisitions in 2014, and testing services that touch about one third of the adults in the US. It is up to Lidia Fonseca, Quest Diagnostics’ CIO to organize, tag, and structure the data so that the company can turn information into insights and insights into actions. By effectively categorizing and partitioning the data, the big data conundrum has turned into a massive opportunity for the company, and it has also made that data much more secure.
Thinking Big In Barcelona; The Corsican Founder About To Take App Builder Good Barber Open Source
Why build an app from scratch and spend a fortune on designers, coders and consultants if your core business is not UX / UI design? Much better to build from an out of the box template using a range of pre-coded add-ons and features. This, plus an emphasis on beautiful and unique designs, is the philosophy that underpins entrepreneur Domininque Siacci’s startup Good Barber – which provides easy to assemble app building software for iPhone, iPad and Android.
2016 Honda Civic Coupe: Another Winner In Honda’s Parade Of New Product
Honda is in the midst of an aggressive product launch, with five all-new models and two substantially revised vehicles hitting showrooms in less than 2 years. Many of these vehicles are also top sellers in their respective categories, suggesting the automaker’s efforts are working to grow Honda’s visibility and reach in today’s highly-competitive new-car market. And while Honda’s overall sales were up modestly (2.6 percent) in 2015, at Kelley Blue Book we tracked the brand’s transaction price growth at 2.7 percent. That’s higher than Chevrolet, Kia, Subaru or Toyota (and essentially tied with Mazda’s 2.8 percent price growth), suggesting the appeal of these new products is creating strong demand.
15 Top Paying IT Certifications In 2016: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Leads At $125K
Each of the five Amazon Web Services (AWS) certifications brings in an average salary of more than $100,000. There are more than 685,000 Project Management Professionals (PMPs) worldwide, and their average annual salary is $116,094. Four of the 15 are Cisco certifications, solidifying the value of these certifications in enterprise IT.
Three Factors For ‘Bimodal’ IT: Automation, Automation And Automation
The problem with the information technology industry is that we are fond of doing the same thing that we used to do, but giving an action a new name and telling everyone that a so-called paradigm shift has happened. Take DevOps, take big data analytics or even take cloud computing… we’ve kind of been here before with a lot of these concepts, processes and methodologies. So could ‘bimodal IT’ be genuinely new… and what makes it happen?
Meet The Entrepreneurs Aiming To Make Virtual Shopping The New (Augmented) Reality
Two business partners and entrepreneurs who have been friends for more than 25 years have developed an award-winning product that is beginning to make waves as the missing link that could finally solve the problem of how to unite “clicks” and “bricks”.
Volvo Plans To Be First Automaker To Go Fully ‘Keyless’
The Chinese-owned company aims to eschew physical keys and/or a remote key fob altogether, perhaps as early as 2017. In their place the company plans to offer new-vehicle owners access to their autos via a smartphone app and Bluetooth wireless technology.
Facebook Treads A Thin Line Between Ads And Spam On Messenger
More than 20 businesses are now figuring out how to talk to you on Messenger. When Facebook lets them start a chat in just few months, it risks putting some users off.
The Internet Of Things Goes Open Source With Linux Foundation’s Zephyr Project
By providing a secure and open source OS, the Zephyr Project could remove the constraints that hold back IoT from becoming mainstream.
New Breed Of Startups Aims To Transform Security
The security industry has started to go through a transformation. The transformation is part evolution and part maturity. Exploits and attack techniques advance rapidly and a quick look at the headlines on any given week demonstrates that traditional network and endpoint security solutions are proving inadequate. The companies that form the new breed of security are bringing unique and innovative approaches to the problem rather than just tweaking the same old broken security model.
Will Force Over Mass Change The Modus Operandi For Investing In UK Startups?
Last week I caught up with Martijn de Wever, CEO of Force Over Mass Capital and CMO Theo Osborne to talk about their new joint venture investment project which officially launches today. FOM represents a step change in how investors can help fund early stage technology companies – it gives angel investors access to a curated portfolio of 30 startups every year without taking away their right to manage and add to their investments over time. Investors enjoy this flexibility because of an open-ended investment solution which is clearly differentiated from traditional Venture Capital fund models, the duo told me.
Can Artificial Intelligence Answer Our Email?
Many of us harbor a love hate relationship with email. We hate its Sisyphean tedium, but we love to stay on top of our world and our work objectives. Ultimately, many of us end up becoming a slave to our own inboxes. The question now then is… given the increasing sophistication seen in machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), could intelligent automation answer our emails for us?
This Startup Is Building A Brain For Fleets Of Driverless Vehicles
City authorities could more than halve traffic on the roads if they controlled a driverless flotilla of cabs and busses.
How to Pitch, Value & Fund Your Digital Baby – Part 3 of a 6-Part Series for Digital Entrepreneurs
This is part 3 of a 6-part series where I present a set of contrarian start/build/exit best practices for digital entrepreneurs.
Sharebot Leverages Blockchain Technology For Competitive ‘Social’ Marketing
The launch of website Sharebits.io and its new ‘tip-bot’ facilities, which is another way to share and exchange value through cryptocurrency tokens, is being touted as facilitating and aiding businesses and entrepreneurs to reach the notoriously ‘hard-to-attract’ millennial demographic. And, the sales spiel behind this initiative leveraging blockchain technology pitches “a fun, flexible and accessible approach” to marketing.
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