How Pinterest transformed digital strategy from cloud to containers, ML and open source

Pinterest has used an array of advanced digital tools to grow its global footprint to 200 million active users. 

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 8, 2017

#Gains: Planet Fitness wants to beef up with AI

Using data, Chief Digital and Information Officer Craig Miller wants to create a personalized fitness experience, or an "adaptive coach," to better engage customers and promote gym loyalty.

By Naomi Eide • Dec. 8, 2017

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Top 5 stories from CIO Dive

Shifts in compute infrastructure, ongoing AI adoption plans and talent challenges ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.

By CIO Dive staff

'Whole cloud' revenues projected to hit $554B in 2021

The "whole cloud" market includes public, private and hybrid cloud offerings as well as cloud-based services, software and infrastructure-related hardware.

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 7, 2017

React and AWS lead the searches for potential hires and employers

Job seekers' searches for AWS increased 98% — nearly double the 50% growth for Azure searches.

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 7, 2017

Get 'em while they're hot: Google's AI serves up the perfect chocolate chip cookie

After about two months and 59 batches, the AI-based experiment, learn and repeat process helped produce the chocolate chip and cardamom cookie recipe.   

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 6, 2017

AI is biased: Who's to blame?

AI collects data and produces answers without explanation, so resolving the bias problem could take years, according to researchers. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 5, 2017

Yawn, study, cuddle: IBM, MIT roll out video data set for AI model training

An AI lab has created a massive database classifying short clips of basic actions to help AI models learn to identify videos as accurately as they can identify still images.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 4, 2017

A 'polite raccoon' keeps Slack employees on track

The idea of the raccoon blossomed after Slack's leadership wanted a friendly way to maintain company culture without stalling productivity.

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 4, 2017

Up-and-Coming Tech of the Year: Democratized AI

AI may have moved from fantasy to reality, but for most companies this reality is still not accessible. Democratized AI tools are beginning to hit the enterprise and change this.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 4, 2017

Hottest Market of the Year: Communication platforms

Communication platforms welcome personality and voice to the workforce, and major tech companies are competing to be the megaphone employees want.

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 4, 2017

Company of the Year: Microsoft

It may be the No. 3 most valuable company internationally, but right now Microsoft is No. 1 in the enterprise thanks to its turn from personal computing to enterprise and cloud services.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 4, 2017

The CIO Dive Awards for 2017

The awards recognize the technology industry's top disruptors and innovators. These executives, companies and trends are transforming the industry and shaping the future.

By Naomi Eide , Samantha Schwartz , Alex Hickey • Dec. 4, 2017

Apple shares facial recognition data with apps, sparking privacy worries

While Apple designed Face ID to have certain privacy protections, the company still faces challenges in making sure that app developers aren't abusing the facial data.

By Robert Williams • Dec. 1, 2017

Is your business ready for Alexa?

The implication of moving Alexa to the enterprise means enlarging the scale in which it adds and stores data.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 30, 2017

Robots at the ready: Up to 375M workers in peril by 2030

Fear losing jobs to automation? The answer is setting workers up for career change before displacement occurs. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 30, 2017

UPDATE: Home in time for the holidays? American Airlines works to fix pilot scheduling glitch

The airline is facing a crew scheduling flaw that will potentially impact 15,000 flights scheduled between Dec. 17 and Dec. 31.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 29, 2017

Microsoft, Cisco, Huawei team up on blockchain data marketplace

The partnership with IOTA, an open-source blockchain company, will create a secure data marketplace for companies to share and profit from IoT data. 

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 29, 2017

6 months to GDPR: What's next?

With May 2018 looming on the horizon, the vast majority of companies still have a long journey ahead of them in becoming compliant to the new data privacy regulations. A costly, confusing and long process is ahead for many.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 28, 2017

Munich says 'auf wiedersehen' to Linux, 'willkommen' to Windows

After more than a decade of championing open-source software, the city council has decided to return to a single operating system through Windows — a move that will cost $60 million.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 27, 2017

Salesforce sets sights on $20B revenue goal

The sales giant will reach "$20 billion faster than any enterprise software company in history," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 27, 2017

Vulnerabilities found on Intel chips dating back to 2015

The flaw is present on its newest 8th generation Core Processor series as well as older chip models released in 2015. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 22, 2017

Talking turkey: Cargill uses blockchain for farm-to-table Thanksgiving transparency

Through the house-built blockchain platform, customers can use the code on a turkey's package to access information and photos about the farm where the bird was raised.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 21, 2017

How AR, ML and IoT will reshape the future of society

The Internet of Things has the potential to make professionals more efficient and productive through the use of enhanced machine learning, augmented reality and connected devices.

By Joe Conway • Nov. 21, 2017

Virgin Atlantic flies to Workplace, another win for the social network

The social draw that Workplace by Facebook was founded on provides an appeal that other communication platforms lack.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 17, 2017

Half of Android devices run outdated software, creating security headache

The most recent Android operating system currently accounts for less than 1% of the market share.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 15, 2017