Only 20% of Americans work three or more days a week: IBM's CEO

Major American businesses were shocked to see that fewer staff than they anticipated wanted to return to their offices as they started to welcome back employees in the spring. Ford stated that the initial numbers were "lower than we expected" back in April, and more recent remarks from ...

Terry Sweeney has joined EY's healthcare digital consulting division

Terry Sweeney has joined EY as a partner in Adelaide after stepping down as the CEO of the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre in March.

The Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre, founded in 2018, is a $200 million national organisation that fast-tracks technology and digita...

MIZUHO BANK EXECUTIVES TO TAKE PAY CUTS OVER ATM SYSTEM FAILURE

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• Mizuho Bank executives to take pay cuts over ATM system failure.
• Mizuho Group’s President and Group CEO Tatsufumi Sakai and 10 other executives will take pay cuts.
• Mizuho Bank will recruit executives from IBM Japan ...

MIZHUO BANK ATM FAILURE DUE TO POOR OPERATION & MANAGEMENT

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• Mizhuo Bank ATM failure due to poor operation & management.
• A third-party panel concluded the same on Tuesday.
• The panel consisted of lawyers and system management experts.
• On Feb. 28, its systems were over...

IBM AND UK GOVERNMENT TOGETHER TO BUILD AI & QUANTUM COMPUTING CENTRE IN DARESBURY

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• Government of UK and IBM together to build an AI and quantum computing centre in Daresbury, Cheshire
• UK government will invest 172 million pounds and IBM will invest 38 million pounds in the centre

The government of the U...

IBM JAPAN LTD. TO INSTALL THE COUNTRY’S FIRST LEADING-EDGE QUANTUM COMPUTER

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• IBM Japan Ltd. to install the country’s first leading-edge quantum computer.
• The quantum computer will be in place in few months, and will be operation by end of year.
• The first machine will be a "gate-model qu...

IBM PLANNING TO CUT ABOUT 10,000 JOBS IN EUROPE

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• The company IBM is planning to cut around 10,000 jobs in the continent of Europe
• The company is taking this step in an attempt for reducing the costs at its slow-growth services unit

The International Business Machines Co...

JAPAN’S IBM CORP. UNIT DVELOP AN AI SUITCASE TO ASSIT BLIND PEOPLE

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• Japan’s IBM Corp. unit develop an AI suitcase to assist blind people.
• A pilot test of a prototype was conducted at an airport in Japan earlier this month.
• The AI suitcase successfully navigated itself to an All Nipp...

MACROMOLECULE POLYMERS DEVELOPED BY IBM MIGHT BE THE HOPE FOR TREATING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

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• Antibiotic resistance is a condition that has been a medical worry
• A breakthrough is hoped for with the development of the MACROMOLECULE POLYMERS

Antibiotic resistance has been a medical worry for a long time. In a layman’s la...

IBM CEO INTERACTS WITH PM MODI: CONFIDENT ABOUT THE AATMANIRBHAR BHARAT VISION

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• The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi reiterated that this is a great time to invest in India

• In the last week during his interaction with PM Modi, Google Chief Sundar Pichai had announced the company’s plans to invest Rs 75,000 crore in Ind...

UNEMPLOYMENT: THE NEXT BIG CRISIS IN INDIA’S IT SECTOR

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• According to the sources, IBM Corp will be sacking 2,000 employees from India

• The decline in demand and non-performance are the reasons cited by the Indian IT companies

• Cognizant Technology Solutions had previously fired thousands of i...

Cisco and IBM provide a private cloud service which is operated

Cisco and IBM also carried out a range of controlled private-cloud services targeted at users wanting the utility of a public cloud offered on site.

Cisco and IBM Services have collaborated to provide a Managed Private Cloud-as - a-service that is operated by Cisco's Unified Computi...

Industrial device systems in 2024, invested US$ 27 biillion

LONDON, Jan. 16, 2020/PRNewswire/— Factories are working on data today. Producers turn to software applications such as Electronic Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Inventory Managem...

Higher Mortality Rates by 2024

In the forecast period, the global Telecoms Blockchain is expected to grow in CAGR at 77.9% to reach revenues of $1.37 billion by 2024, according to the MGA Research report. Traditional telecom companies focus on using blockchain technologies to expose new opportunities to increase overall revenu...

Oil and Gas being transformed by the very advanced Artificial Intelligence

There is a time of unprecedented change in the oil and gas industries. The International Energy Agency expects that petrochemical demand will continue to grow in the next five years, particularly Asia, but a destabilizing factor is potential overloads, together with geopolitical tensions and cons...

Is Cloud Banking Being Threatened?

Regulators are looking at cloud banking apps, especially around resilience, recovery, and concentration of providers. Stephen Brobst, chief technology officer at Teradata, said EU regulators are concerned that the main cloud providers are all American firms — AWS, Microsoft, Google, and per...

Corporate trends of the Travel industry are changing

ITB Asia 2019 has attracted unprecedented exhibition demand from a total of 58 National Tourism Organisations (NTOs) and Regional Tourism Organisations (RTOs), representing a year-on-year growth of 23.8 per cent and 25 per cent respective in the securing of exhibition space as compared to 2018 an...