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...Then, just before Christmas, came the winter storm that triggered a cascade of nearly 17,000 flight cancellations at Southwest, overwhelming the airline’s creaking software as it struggled to match crews...
...One of these companies is Autodesk, a software company that aims to digitalise construction and manufacturing sectors....
...The US Department of Justice has raised national security concerns in connection with Zoom Video Communications’ planned takeover of the cloud software company Five9, calling for a secondary review of the...
..."We’ve been exploring different app uptake levels for some time in the UK and we’re really pleased to see that contact-tracing apps in the UK and the USA have the potential to meaningfully reduce the number...
...For that USA Cricket brought in as chairman Paraag Marathe, who runs football operations at the San Francisco 49ers and oversaw the NFL team’s investment into Leeds United....
...“Software engineers would be terrified if they couldn’t ever change their code without seven-eighths of their co-workers agreeing,” he tells me....
...In addition, Gartner is predicting that IT spending by SMEs will decline by 9% this year, and software spending to be -6%....
...who used software created by the company years later to trade in the financial markets,” Mr Thakkar’s attorney, Renato Mariotti, wrote in a court filing....
...“We didn’t see the opportunity, Square did,” he said, name-checking a payments software provider that’s boasting quarterly revenues of almost $900m, less than a decade after inception....
...Reports of hardware hacks in the US serve as a useful reminder that security issues need not be limited to software....
...It will be made openly available as a software tool. The technology could be used malignly if a terrorist or criminal wanted a guide to designing a new chemical agent with particular toxic features....
...In London, Fidessa jumped after the financial software maker said it had received interest from two possible bidders who were prepared to beat its agreed £1.4bn takeover offer from Temenos ....
...notion of fundamentals on any given day, for weeks at a time, months at a time, has completely gone out the window these days,” says Doug Duquette, an executive at Chicago-based Vertex Analytics, whose software...
...Outside China, casualties abound: in California, Lily Robotics shut up shop in January, while 3D Robotics switched its focus to software and Parrot, of France, axed jobs....
...President Donald Trump claimed credit for a “huge win for American workers and the USA”....
...“This is a charged debate,” said Rick Lane, chief executive of Trading Technologies, a software vendor....
...The investigation is a response to public allegations from a former Uber software engineer, Susan Fowler, that she had been sexually harassed by her manager — and that Uber’s human resources team had ignored...
...The world’s most valuable public company supports “several hundred thousand jobs” across its vendor base, he said, in addition to more than 1m software developers who make their living through its App Store...
...“Tightening legislation in the USA has certainly made the UK a more attractive market,” says Mr Walker. “Touts are using international borders to obfuscate their activities.”...
...The company is also moving into bank loans with its Square Capital business, lending to small businesses that use its devices and software to process payments....
...Apple’s new operating system, iOS 10, caused problems for some existing iPhone owners by rendering their devices unusable after updating their software....
...More than 200m people worldwide use ad blocking software, double the number two years ago, according to estimates by PageFair, the anti-blocking service, and Adobe, the software company....
...Since Volkswagen admitted last September to using software to cheat emissions tests, Daimler has categorically denied that it also used so-called defeat devices....
...Mr Cagney — software engineer turned trader turned entrepreneur — has never lingered long in one place....
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