Digital Transformation

05 Nov 2024

Forrester’s 2025 predictions for smart manufacturing and mobility

Forrester’s VP principal analyst Paul Miller reveals the most important predictions for business and technology leaders in manufacturing and mobility in 2025.

Forrester’s 2025 predictions for Europe

05 Nov 2024

Forrester’s VP group director Laura Koetzle reveals what European business leaders should expect and prepare for in 2025.

French IT firm Atos agrees to sell Worldgrid unit to Alten

05 Nov 2024

Atos said on Tuesday it had signed an agreement to sell its Worldgrid business unit to Alten for 270 million euros ($293.7 million) on an enterprise value basis, in a transaction expected to close before end-2024.

Siemens can make more acquisitions after Altair deal, exec tells paper

04 Nov 2024

Siemens has the financial muscle for further software acquisitions after its $10.6 billion purchase of U.S. industrial software company Altair, managing board member Cedrik Neike said.

Google brings AI answers to map applications

01 Nov 2024

Alphabet’s Google on Thursday announced a set of features that incorporated Gemini, its artificial intelligence chatbot, into its suite of mapping applications.

31 Oct 2024

Siemens' $10.6 billion Altair deal seen boosting industrial software offering

Siemens announced a $10.6 billion deal to buy U.S. engineering software firm Altair Engineering overnight, cheering analysts who see it boosting the company’s presence in the fast-growing industrial software market.

The transformative power of genAI in web searches

31 Oct 2024

The value it adds to AI-powered search engines and areas that it is expected to disrupt

Advantest hikes profit forecast as AI boosts testing demand

30 Oct 2024

Japan’s Advantest on Wednesday hiked its full year operating profit forecast by almost a fifth to 165 billion yen ($1.08 billion) as strong demand for high performance artificial intelligence-related chips boosted its testing tools business.

Transformation through AI

29 Oct 2024

AI is designed to enhance your workforce, not replace it. The goal is to empower employees with better tools and more efficient processes

Toyota, NTT to make $3.3 billion R&D investment for AI self-driving, Nikkei reports

29 Oct 2024

Toyota Motor and Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) will invest 500 billion yen ($3.26 billion) in research and development to create artificial intelligence software to improve self-driving, Nikkei reported on Tuesday.

29 Oct 2024

Cadence raises midpoint of 2024 profit forecast on robust demand from chip designers

Cadence Design Systems raised the midpoint of its annual profit forecast on Monday, betting on the boom in generative AI to drive demand for its software used to design complex chips that power those systems, sending its shares up 6.4% in extended trading.