Articles by Richard Adhikari

Worldwide spending on the Internet of Things will total nearly US$773 billion this year, IDC has predicted. The IoT will sustain a compound annual growth rate of 14.4 percent, and spending will hit $1.1 trillion by 2021, according to the firm's forecast late last year....

Apple plans to equip iOS 12 with USB Restricted Mode, a feature that requires users to unlock their iPhone with their passcode before USB accessories can connect if the phone last was unlocked more than an hour earlier The company included this feature in the developer versions of iOS 11.4.1 and iOS 12....

Salesforce on Wednesday announced integrations between its Marketing Cloud and Google Analytics 360 that equip marketers with a broad range of new capabilities, including the following: View consumer insights from both Marketing Cloud and Analytics 360 in a single journey analytics dashboard to better analyze cross-channel engagement. For example, ...

A group of data, technology, digital services and other organizations on Tuesday launched the AI Global Marketplace The marketplace is, in essence, an artificial intelligence app store. It will host more than 2,000 high-value AI assets focused on customer engagement and process intelligence problems for the banking, insurance, healthcare and digita...

The gap between business-to-business buyers and sellers has been growing, according to CSO Insights, the research division of Miller Heiman Group. Its survey of 500 B2B buyers at mid-to-large companies around the world delivered the following findings:...

No-fee mobile bank Chime recently announced a US$70 million Series C funding round led by Menlo Ventures. Existing investors Forerunner Ventures, Aspect Ventures, Cathay Innovation, Northwestern Mutual, Crosslink Capital and Omidyar Network also participated Chime has valued its business at $500 million. With the Series C funding, the company has r...

A significant percentage of IT systems are cloud-based, according to a CompTIA survey of 502 U.S companies. The cloud is a key enabler for emerging technology, suggests the poll, which was conducted last month....

The United States Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have opened a joint criminal investigation into price manipulation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to a Bloomberg report The illicit tactics reportedly being investigated include spoofing and wash trading....

Okta on Wednesday announced the Okta API Products One App, which lets engineering teams and developers implement multifactor authentication, or MFA, for any single website or application Developers can use API Products for One App free if they display "Identity by Okta" on the login page of their app....

Cloud Health Services, Part 1: Benefits and Complications In response to the migration of health services to the cloud, vendors have been partnering with various organizations to gain a foothold in the market and to test out their solutions....

The cloud offers a host of potential uses, according to the healthcare industry and academic medical center representatives who participated in a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Societysurvey last year. Application hosting was the top use, identified by 90 percent of the 64 respondents....

Microsoft plans to release a line of Surface tablets priced in the US$400 range later this year, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources The tablets will have 10-inch screens and rounded edges, and USB-C connectivity -- a first in Microsoft tablets. They will be about 20 percent lighter than the Surface Pros. Their battery life will be...

NICE on Tuesday debuted its NICE Employee Virtual Attendant, or NEVA, a process automation bot powered by the company's desktop automation technology With chatbot capabilities, NEVA "is designed for both front- and back-office employees," said NICE VP Oded Karev, head of advanced process automation.

Spotify on Thursday announced a new policy governing hate content and hateful conduct. The service identified as hate content anything that expressly and principally promotes, advocates or incites hatred or violence against a group or individual, based on characteristics including race, religion, gender identity, sex, ethnicity, nationality, sexu...

BorderX Lab, which was founded in 2014 by three former Google computer scientists, on Tuesday announced it has raised US$20 million in a Series B financing round led by Kleiner Perkins BorderX Lab is the U.S. subsidiary of China-based Ipinyou. The company's annual revenue is $19 million, based on Owler's estimates. ...

HubSpot this week rolled out platform integrations with Shopify and Workplace by Facebook, which are designed to support the marketing and sales efforts of small and mid-sized businesses The Shopify integration, which is now live and available free of charge to shared customers in all versions of HubSpot, lets e-commerce marketers take the followin...

Consensus, which offers a Software as a Service platform for intelligent video demo automation, this week released Consensus Snap, a Chrome plug-in for business-to-business sales teams Snap enables sales reps to record, send and track personalized screenshot video demos on the fly....

Fitbit and Google on Monday announced a new partnership on healthcare. Fitbit will develop consumer and enterprise health solutions that will use Google's new Cloud Healthcare application programming interface Fitbit also will move to the Google Cloud Platform to innovate and advance its products and services....

Mozilla earlier this week launched the first full edition of its Internet Health Report The report is "an open source effort to explore the state of human life on the Internet," wrote Mozilla Executive Director Mark Surman in an online post....

Worldwide customer relationship management software revenues totaled US$39.5 billion in 2017, eclipsing database management systems, the former market leader DBMS had worldwide revenues of $36.8 billion last year, and it "has been the biggest software segment for years, noted Julian Poulter, research director at Gartner....