Chris Preimesberger

Facebook has found another way to keep users riveted to its pages, and this time it’s through their stomachs. The giant social network is again using its massive power of scale to inject itself into another business and is–depending upon your point of view–either coordinating or disrupting another industry: food ordering for takeout or delivery. […]

Eight Industries Primed and Ready for Headless CMS Adoption “Headless CMS” has become a hot topic around content management, especially as companies begin using omnichannel and the internet of things (IoT) systems to push content to customers. Dynamic editorial and advertising content exists everywhere: apps, jumbotrons, smartphones, airport kiosks, augmented reality, gaming consoles and so […]

By the calendar, Jedidiah Yueh isn’t very old, but businesswise, he operates far beyond his years. After 20 years of building software companies, Yueh, 43, has published his first book, “Disrupt or Die: What the World Needs to Learn from Silicon Valley to Survive the Digital Era.” It became available Oct. 10 on Amazon. There […]

If you think Facebook, Twitter and Google were the only social networks used by Russian operatives to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, you might be in for a big surprise. International election meddlers even went so far as to use the Pokémon Go gaming platform to plant fake news and ads in their […]

If you thought hard disk drives are going the way of the dinosaur, think again. WD, the storage media maker formerly known as Western Digital, believes it has bypassed a threshold that will open doors to more capacious, more efficient storage operation inside HDDs for big data workloads. At a media event Oct. 11 at its […]

How to Overcome Limitations of Conventional Discovery in the Cloud Following a few years of fits and starts, enterprise use of the cloud is growing exponentially, and wider deployment is coming as more companies adopt cloud-first strategies. IT leaders are looking for better ways to manage on-premises IT assets with newer cloud-based assets. Common early […]

One of the world’s largest and most successful cloud-based product-and-services merchants is spreading its investments in research and development way beyond its home country. China-based Alibaba Group, which operates one of the world’s busiest e-commerce sites, said Oct. 10 that it is investing a cool $15 billion during the next three years into R&D developments […]

It’s not a coincidence that the ride-sharing industry and data analytics are growing up together and maturing into the commercial world quickly in this age of IT automation. After all, getting a ride from services such as Lyft, Uber and others is all about using geopositioning and analytics to triangulate locations and estimated times of […]

On Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 60th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “Trends in New-Gen Mobility, Apps, Devices.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat Oct. 11: “Trends in New-Gen Mobility, Apps, Devices” […]

Facebook and Google rake in more advertising revenue than the rest of the media world combined. Thus it follows that if one of them–Facebook–was found to have published fake political ads placed by Russian operatives in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, then one could be reasonably sure that the same thing happened in Google’s channels. […]