How Random House and Penguin should handle the imminent amalgamation of their IT systems. In a deal announced earlier this week, Pearson and Bertelsmann are set to own around 25% of the global publishing market when the publishers Penguin and Random House merge in the...
It’s been a torrid year for RBS. A few months ago we blogged about its catastrophic IT outage, which threw the spotlight on to how many banks are reliant on antiquated IT systems. And earlier this week this issue edged back into the limelight with the...
Last week, Amazon announced that it was extending its controversial e-book lending scheme Kindle Owners’ Lending Library to the UK. In its current state, Kindle Lending Library is a value added service to Amazon Prime, the premium delivery service for which the...
O’Reilly’s Radar has just published a really fascinating interview with Marie Wallace, a social analytics strategist from IBM. She believes that social networks in search of a monetization strategy should turn themselves into data analytics businesses...
There’s one sure fire way of telling that a technology has crossed the floor from being an intriguing idea to a future giant of IT – and that’s earning a place on Gartner’s Hype Cycle. This happened with Big Data last year, as Gartner added it to its...
