When a group of academic researchers conducted a 2017 study of how corporate boards enable innovation, they found that many directors were struggling with the concept. Reasons ranged from risk avoidance to a bias for short-term results. “What we did find is many boards actually are seen as being inhibitors,” said Linda Hill (pictured), Wallace ...

The term “internet of things” came to life more by desperate accident than design. When Kevin Ashton was a junior manager at Procter & Gamble Co., he came up with an idea to place radio frequency identification tags into the company’s numerous products and connect them to the internet. “The challenge I faced as a young executive ...

One of the most popular video game streamers on Twitch, the gaming website acquired by Amazon four years ago for $1.1 billion, is Tyler Blevins. He streams his video game sessions on the platform almost every day and has 250,000 paid subscribers, which earns him $500,000 … per month. If there is any doubt about ...

PTC Inc. got its start in 1985 as the Parametric Technology Corp. selling computer-aided design software. But today the “p” might as well stand for pivot. PTC has embarked on its own digital transformation with a major push into technology for “internet of things.” “It went through a pretty dramatic transformation,” said Dave Vellante (@dvellante), co-host ...

Facebook Inc. is actively courting the game developer community with the launch in January of its Gaming Creator Pilot Program and its more recent announcement of fb.gg, a destination portal for the social media giant’s top gamers. “We’re making it easier for creators to make a living on Facebook,” said John Imah (pictured), global head ...

There are some attendees at last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo gathering in Los Angeles who have been coming to the event for nearly two decades. They have witnessed major changes in the gaming industry, from the days when titles were sold only on disc to a new age where online livestreaming and data analysis dominate the ...

They are commonly known today as hyperscalers, massive technology companies such as Google LLC, Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. that have carved out significant market positions in public cloud and related services. And while cloud dominance is a primary goal, the leading hyperscalers have designs for a much larger prize: developing the world’s technology infrastructure for use ...

At least half of mission-critical enterprise applications are still being managed on-premises, based on a study commissioned by Skytap Inc. and conducted by 451 Research. However, the modernization wave is coming, as the report, released earlier this month, also found that nearly 70 percent of respondents plan to migrate or modernize half of their on-prem ...

The announcements this week at DockerCon, which include cross-cloud provider management and expanded Windows capabilities, didn’t just originate in a hermetically sealed room deep inside Docker Inc.’s San Francisco headquarters. The container technology company has a small customer advisory group it relies on to deliver advice, according to Scott Johnston (pictured), chief product officer at ...

Is any enterprise really in favor of vendor lock-in? Didn’t think so, and Docker Inc. doesn’t think so either. The company went out of its way at the opening day of DockerCon on Wednesday to address lock-in by improving Kubernetes container-orchestration system functionality across multiple cloud platforms. Docker Enterprise Edition now centralizes management across Amazon ...