This week - retail grocery chains get a COVID-19 digital gut check. Snowflake almost breaks the stock market with an outsized IPO. Fall virtual event season revs up, and I have some fun with AIOps - and flights to nowhere.
This week - the IT job market puts the pressure on, but the global skills gap remains. The size of the office economy is quantified - and the future of cities is debated. Oracle turns in strong numbers. Readers get a satirical "moonshot" for the ages. As always, your whiffs, and a dash of TikTokery.
This week - returning to work(places) raises the privacy stakes - how will employers respond? Plus: will AI-based threat detection make us safer, or add to the surveillance culture? Plus: whiffs-a-plenty.
This week - big earnings news from Salesforce, Workday and Box show the enterprise software upside. But the pandemic's continued impact on IT budgets and services must also be reckoned with. We've got contrasting news on the future of the physical office. As always, your whiffs.
This week - in your TikTok-free edition of hits and misses, Target wins the retail game for the week, but not all retailers are digital victors. The new-normal consumer gets a careful look, but defies predictions. Whiffs include overhyping Google as an educational disruptor.
This week - COVID-19 is forcing a healthcare transformation, but will it stick? Oracle and Salesforce get an adtech legal challenge, but is it a nuisance lawsuit or the real deal? The postal services reaches out for... blockchain? As always, your weekly whiffs.
This week - headless meets serverless, in search of frictionless - is it more than buzzword bingo? Microsoft and Twitter kick tires on TikTok, but the Trump administration has them on the clock. In your whiffs, nudists chase wild boars, while AI fails a Minority Report test.
This week - The CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google are grilled by US legislators, but grandstanding and avoidance tactics meant very few moments of reckoning. Plus: ‘too big to fail’ economics makes its way to the cloud market. Whiffs include more WFH nonsense and a tone deaf Domino’s campaign.
This week - retail consumers create new trends, and retailers scramble for new metrics. Offices push to re-open, but health screening and data privacy loom large. At presstime, SAP announces its Qualtrics IPO intent. As always, whiffs-a-plenty.
This week - the collaboration market heats up as Microsoft Teams and Google Cloud jockey for news attention. Plus: the end of Privacy Shield raises huge economic (and data) questions. Whiffs include Twitter hacks, IBM, AirBnB, and 5G hype overdose.
This week - retailers get a digital supply chain gut check, while the return-to-work push faces obstacles. Microsoft Teams gets evaluated, Facebook gets called out (again), and Amazon makes life hard on itself.
This week - employers are pushing to re-open, but the future of work brings a slew of new issues. AI gets an enterprise reality check, while Macy's takes glass-half-full to a digital extreme. The diginomica team rounds up one more wave of virtual events. Plus: an epic "AI" whiff.
This week - companies push to re-open, but is the office dead? The future of work sharpens. Remote work forces companies into uncharted security territory. Cloud purists form an alliance, and I pay tribute to an enterprise legend gone too soon.
