Even though digital pioneers aren’t pounding on construction companies like they are in other industries, Swedish building giant Skanska knows it must go high tech in a big way—adopting smart sensors, cloud-based data analytics, green building design, robotics, and the like. “We’re really on the brink of doing what other …

Yamaha is delving into the world of autonomous vehicles in a way fitting of the unique company that it is: by building a robot capable of piloting a motorcycle better than a human can—but not just any human: nine-time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi, who won this year’s championship on a …

My team and I just hosted another Future of Work Forum in NYC for members of The Future of Work Community (a global brand council where companies explore how the workplace is changing). We were joined by some brilliant speakers and guests including the CHRO of AARP, Chief People Officer …

Waking up one morning in a palatial three-bedroom abode in Port Ferdinand, Barbados, I found the view deliciously mind-boggling. From the grand oceanfront terrace, there was electric-blue Caribbean sea, a 120-berth marina and lustrous white yachts. But the windows on the other side of my unit told an altogether different …

IBM IBM -0.34% and The Weather Company are working together to provide us with a future where we can 100% accurately predict what will happen above our heads a full three days into the future. Chairman and CEO of The Weather Company David Kenny has explained the shape of the …

Hackers have been known to use all manner of remote access tools to break into mobile phones, often by finding vulnerabilities in an operating system like Android or even in SIM cards. It’s more rare to try and tap into the network infrastructure that routes these calls for mobile operators …

Never has a technology movement been so misunderstood, overhyped, yet undervalued as big data. Paul Sonderegger, Oracle’s big data strategist, sees it as nothing less than a fundamental building block of competitive advantage—a form of capital on par with financial and human capital. It’s estimated that 84% of the market …

The world’s largest retailer is hoping to work with the world’s biggest consumer drone manufacturer. On Monday, Walmart said it filed paperwork with the Federal Aviation Administration to test outdoor drone delivery with devices made by China’s SZ DJI Technology Co. In documents first reported by Reuters, the retailer explained …

Tuesday marks Twitter TWTR +0.00% first quarterly earnings report with Jack Dorsey as the social network’s official CEO. Since his appointment three weeks ago, Dorsey has overseen the launch of a new hand-curated content tab called “Moments,” cut 8% of Twitter’s total staff, gave a third of his Twitter stock …

There’s a piece of legislation going through Congress right now that digital rights activists and web organisations – Twitter TWTR +0.00%, Salesforce, Yelp, Reddit and Wikipedia to name a few – are railing against. It’s called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, a bill that is, on the surface, trying to …