Girl Scouts are mum on tech underpinning of Digital Cookie push
Details are slim but Accenture, Hybris are implementation partners on the Girl Scouts’ new Digital Cookie e-commerce effort.
Cloud Foundry Foundation nets 8 new members
Accenture, BNY Mellon, Capgemini, Ericsson, GE, Intel, NTT and Verizon officially joined the foundation pushing Cloud Foundry platform for big data applications.
Obama administration is dumping contractor over Healthcare.gov debacle
In a move that won’t come as a huge surprise to anyone, it looks like the government is firing CGI Federal over shoddy performance of the Healthcare.gov website.
GE teams up with AT&T and Intel to conquer the industrial internet. Here’s its plan.
So far this year GE has made $290 million in revenue from its industrial internet products. The two-year effort gets new partners Wednesday, and we learn how it plans to stay open and still build a barrier to entry.
Want to see Google Glass at work in the hospital? Philips, Accenture offer a preview
Philips and Accenture have teamed up for a proof-of-concept video showing how Google Glass could be used by doctors in the operating theater and emergency room.
A property giant plays startup accelerator on the shores of East London
Several months after launching, East London’s FinTech accelerator Level39 is full and looking for growth around smart cities tech.
Banking industry opens new FinTech accelerator in London
Following a successful first two years for the original FinTech Innovation Lab in New York, Accenture and its banking pals are trying to replicate the scheme in the world’s top financial center.
Superstacks: How consumers trade convenience for choice
Welcome to the concept of the superstack — which acts to circumvent the openness that the Internet and the digitization of content has enabled and once again lock consumers into a single platform for their content determined in part by the hardware they choose.
Cloud migration still poses mine field for IT vendors
Legacy IT vendors used to dealing with one or two ways of delivering their products and services to market, now must handle four, five, maybe more business models as cloud computing takes off. And many, according to Accenture, are not prepared for that complexity.
New-look integrator Appirio raises $60M
Appirio, which built its systems integration business in part by knitting software-as-a-service and legacy on-premises software together, netted $60 million in Series D funding led by General Atlantic, bringing total investment to $80 million.