Work from home boosted Slack's quarter but revenue remains steady

During Q1, Slack onboarded an additional 12,000 new paying customers.

By Samantha Schwartz • June 5, 2020

Offices may reopen, but workers want to delay a return

Workers say they're not comfortable with a short-term return to the office. It's a window of opportunity for vendors to improve access and quality of remote work tools.

By Roberto Torres • May 15, 2020

Oracle lands Zoom as cloud customer amid skyrocketing video demand

Zoom exceeded 300 million daily meeting participants this month. In December, the platform was only hosting 10 million daily participants. 

By Samantha Schwartz • April 28, 2020

Who will save the startups?

The runway, or dead space, between VC financing could determine a startup's ability to weather a recession — that, or an offering industry can't resist buying.

By Samantha Schwartz • April 28, 2020

How Microsoft is handling cloud capacity constraints

Driven by a surge in remote work from the coronavirus pandemic, Microsoft's service demand skyrocketed and availability waffled. 

By Samantha Schwartz • April 27, 2020

What BlueJeans has to do with 5G

The company expects BlueJeans' addition to its portfolio to round out growth in telemedicine, distance learning and field service work. 

By Samantha Schwartz • April 17, 2020

A 10-year, $10B cloud contract is at stake — was the process fair?

The Department of Defense's watchdog began investigating the JEDI cloud contract award process in June, and falls outside the ongoing legal battle over the award between Microsoft and AWS. 

By Naomi Eide • April 16, 2020

IBM draws former Bank of America CTO to lead cloud

Under new CEO Arvind Krishna, IBM is outlining "strategic battles" focused on hybrid cloud and AI.

By Naomi Eide • April 7, 2020

Is coronavirus putting privacy on hold?

The pandemic creates a gray area between helping the greater good and loosening data privacy expectations.

By Samantha Schwartz • April 1, 2020

The tech industry is offering support during coronavirus. Is it good for business?

The cost of good faith in the tech industry is twofold: What's morally commendable now could cost a lot more in the future.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 31, 2020

Slack's surge tempered by circumstance

"It's hard to say an otherwise normal CEO thing like 'the macroenvironment is creating significant tailwinds for the business,'" said CEO Stewart Butterfield.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 27, 2020

Google v. Oracle: What the companies will argue before the Supreme Court

The decade-long legal battle questions the role of copyright and fair use in foundational coding language. The ruling could change software forever.

By Samantha Schwartz • March 23, 2020

Amid coronavirus outbreak, business technology's corporate responsibility and opportunity blend

Cisco said traffic connecting China-based Webex users has increased 22 times over. The sign-up rates for the free version in impacted countries is seven times higher than pre-outbreak signups. 

By Naomi Eide • March 4, 2020

Businesses lean on remote work, digital collaboration as coronavirus impact felt worldwide

Google Cloud, Adobe and Salesforce are among companies rethinking in-person gatherings, favoring digital collaboration. 

By Naomi Eide • March 3, 2020

Coronavirus: Tech industry impact just beginning

Beyond technology, the outbreak promises a direct impact on business operations. CIO Dive and its sister publications put together COVID-19 coverage on topics that impact daily business decisions.

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 28, 2020

Dell Technologies sells RSA Security for $2.1B

Dell Technologies is finding its way. In a five-year period, the company went public to private and then back to public.​

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 18, 2020

Verizon, IBM, AT&T Cybersecurity pull out of RSA Conference amid coronavirus concern

The companies are among 14 organizations withdrawing from the conference.

By Naomi Eide • Updated Feb. 24, 2020

As FTC query looms, a look at big tech's largest AI acquisitions

Google, Facebook and Apple have the most AI acquisitions with undisclosed financial terms.

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 18, 2020

FTC targets big tech, demanding 10 years of acquisition data

The agency wants information on all non-reportable acquisitions by Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft from Jan. 1, 2010 through Dec. 31, 2019.

By Samantha Schwartz • Updated Feb. 12, 2020

Microsoft created the office suite status quo. Can Google grow?

While customers don't emphasize a single application of a suite, vendors are betting on collaboration.

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 11, 2020

An expired Microsoft security certificate took down Teams

To restore service after a certificate expires, companies have to find where the credentials are stored, update all of them and reset applications if necessary. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Feb. 4, 2020

Women are missing out on business technology's entrepreneurship potential

Reaching gender parity in enterprise entrepreneurship is a $5 trillion market opportunity. 

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 4, 2020

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty steps down, paving way for cloud-focused future

Rometty ushered the company into the modern era of cloud computing and set sights on the future of technology.

By Naomi Eide • Jan. 30, 2020

Misconfigured Microsoft database exposes 250M customers' information

While personally identifiable information was largely redacted, tech support scams could befall impacted customers. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 23, 2020

What the global IT spending forecast says about corporate technology preferences

The Gartner spending forecast boils down to an increase in "soft" and a decrease in "hard" technology spending, with companies opting for service-based delivery models. 

By Naomi Eide • Jan. 16, 2020