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ArticleGartner: "Major" service failures likely for digital businesses
Gartner says outsourcing dilutes control over key parts of corporate ITÂ (Photo: Gartner)IT security teams are having trouble managing digital risk and, as a result, 60 percent of digital businesses will suffer major service failures by 2020, according to a new report.Market researchers Gartners say infrastructure and services outsourcing ...
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ArticleMicrosoft to acquire LinkedIn
Nadella (l) and Weiner explain the rationale behind the takeover (Photo: YouTube)Microsoft is buying LinkedIn for 26.2 billion dlrs in cash, as the US-based software and IT group continues to expand in new directions.Linkedin, the world's largest business network with more than 400 million members, will operate as a ...
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ArticleT-Systems promotes "zero outage" strategy
T-Systems says zero-outage should become an industry standard (Photo: Telekom)T-Systems wants to turn its "zero-outage" goal into an industry standard, citing the need to make sure IT can be relied upon to help in the digital transformation."All industries are getting ready for a digital future, but providing quality assurance ...
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ArticleGM appoints new global quality chief
Tony Francavilla (Photo: GM)General Motors named Tony Francavilla vice president, global quality, effective immediately.Francavilla, 58, succeeds Grace Lieblein, who retired at the end of last year. He reports directly to CEO Mary Barra.In his new role, Francavilla is tasked with assuring that GM vehicles meet the company's high quality ...
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ArticleContinental, Toshiba, Hyundai Mobis join open-source connected car project
Automotive suppliers Continental and Hyundai Mobis, electronics group Toshiba and several other companies have joined Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), a project that aims to develop an open-source, Linux-based platform for connected cars.Earlier this year, AGL announced a new set of codes designed specifically for the automotive industry. The new Linux ...
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ArticleTruck maker MAN makes investment in Silicon Valley start-up
As part of VW's digitization strategy, all  new MAN trucks will be online from 2017 (Photo: MAN)MAN is investing 8.5 million dlrs in a Silicon Valley start-up to improve cargo planning for trucking companies.The German truckmaker, which is part of the Volkswagen Group, said the move will give ...
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ArticleIn Michigan, a push to be the global mobility innovation leader
Michigan's Snyder (l) visits the Ford stand at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show (Photo: Ford)Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has launched a campaign to make  his state the global leader in mobility innovation,The campaign, called “Planet M,” is designed to attract fresh business investment to a state that has ...
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ArticleGM China shows V2X technology
GM will work with other organizations to speed up V2X implementation (Photo: GM)General Motors China is moving closer to bringing its latest connected-vehicle (V2X) technology to the world's biggest car market.The US carmaker said it had for the first time demonstrated V2X technologies such as intersection collision alert and ...
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ArticleStudy: German managers confident of digital skills
Study finds that German companies aren't yet ready for digital era (Photo: E&Y)Senior German managers are highly confident that they have the digital skills to adapt their companies to a new era of digitized business processes. But many of their staff have a different opinion.According to a poll conducted ...
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ArticleStudy: Strong growth for German IT consultants
Photo: AccentureGerman IT service providers, which posted strong growth in 2015, expect to see the upward trend in business continue in 2016 and beyond.An annual study on the state of the German market for IT consultancy and services found that the 95 biggest IT service providers in the country ...
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ArticleAt Porsche, a move into digital mobility
Porsche will develop products that go beyond the making of sports cars (Photo: Porsche)Porsche is broadening its business goals from merely building premium sports cars to becoming a "leading provider of digital mobility solutions in the premium automotive segment."The company said its supervisory board has approved the foundation of ...
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Feature"We're learning from the creativity of start-up founders"
Hofmann says a start-up's proposal can be approved in three weeks(Photo: Claus Dick)For big automotive players, cooperation with startups is becoming more important  than ever before. Large carmakers need the creative enterprise of young companies, if they want to develop new solutions and services in today’s fast-moving digital ...
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ArticleToyota and VW join ride-sharing trend
Toyota Motor and Volkswagen Group both announced ride-sharing moves, joining an auto-industry trend away from pure car-making toward broader mobility concepts.Toyota, the world’s biggest automaker, said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Uber that foresees ride-sharing trials in countries where this mode of transportation is expanding.As part of ...
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Feature"We know that we can’t always do everything on our own"
Daimler's Stark: Autonomous driving is a crucial component of digitization strategyIn a recent interview with automotiveIT, Wilko Andreas Stark, the head of Daimler Strategy and Product Strategy and Planning, Mercedes-Benz Cars, talked about the various levels of the digital transformation Daimler has embarked on. Stark also discussed new business ...
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ArticleAt HP, a new corporate venture unit
HP predicts 3D printing will become mainstream by 2022 (Photo: HP inc.)HP Inc. has launched a corporate venture unit that will support early-stage companies with promising new technologies.The California-based computer hardware group also announced it had developed a production-ready 3D printing system.HP Tech Ventures will make strategic investments in ...
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ArticleVW steps up R&D efforts in artificial intelligence
DFKI research covers a range of new technologies (Photo: DFKI)Volkswagen, acknowledging the growing automotive importance of machine learning, has acquired a stake in the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).“Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key technology for autonomous driving and therefore an investment in our future,” VW Group ...
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ArticleDaimler to invest in IT, appoint chief digital officer
Daimler is focusing more efforts on the digital changes in the car industry (Photo: Daimler)Daimler plans to invest 100 million euros in information technology in the next three years, as the premium car group steps up cross-company digitalization efforts.As part of the company's "100/100" project, Daimler will spend an ...
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ArticleAudi executive to head Tesla car production
At the automotiveIT Forum, Hochholdinger spoke about change in manufacturing (Photo: Jonas Wresch)Former Audi executive Peter Hochholdinger will take charge of manufacturing at electric-car maker Tesla.Hocholdinger, who has worked at Audi for 22 years, will be responsible for the production of Tesla's Model S sedan and Model X crossover ...
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ArticleResearch firm calls for standardized IoT deployments
Smart cities need open-source IoT technologies, according to a new report (Photo: Bosch)Without standardized Internet-of Things technologies, realizing tomorrow's smart cities will be more expensive than necessary.A report by Machina Research says that, using current non-standardized  technologies, it would cost 1.12 trillion dlrs to get smart cities up ...
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ArticleWith SAP deal, Apple makes another move into business
Apple's Tim Cook (l) and SAP's Bill McDermott see mutual benefits of their tie-up (Photo: Apple)Apple announced a partnership with SAP aimed at giving the California-based technology group a stronger position in the business market.Apple and SAP, the world’s biggest business software maker, announced this week that they will ...
