World Tech Update – 4/25/13
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Coming up on World Tech Update this week Microsoft announces the next Xbox, robots offer helping hand and we reflect on the Boston Marathon bombings.
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Study says New York has jumped ahead of Boston in high-tech start-up companies
Boston Globe
First finance, then sports. What next, the high-tech business, too?
New York has long dominated Boston in the financial industry and on certain sports fields. Now a new study suggests the Big Apple is making a raid on the Hub’s home turf by becoming a hot spot for tech start-ups.
New York ranked fourth, ahead of Boston, in a new study rating regions around the world based on the amount of start-up activity this year. In New York, it found, a growing number of software companies are making money faster and creating jobs quickly.
The study, scheduled to be released Tuesday, was issued by Startup Genome, a San Francisco company that conducts research on start-up businesses, and the giant Spanish telecom Telefonica, a company that acquires a lot of start-ups.
Gartner survey says IT spending is top board-level priority
IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
The survey was conducted this year along with Forbes - BOSTON - Corporate boards are prioritizing IT spending as highly as investments in sales operations, according to research announced Monday by analyst firm Gartner. IT and sales were tied as the top two priorities among 175 board members, mostly in the U.S. and U.K., polled in March and April for the Gartner-Forbes 2012 Board of Directors Survey. Sixty-four percent said IT spending would rise during their companies’ fiscal 2012.
Gartner: IT spending stable, growth in cloud services – But growth rates are slower than last year, according to new figures
IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
BOSTON – Global spending on IT products and services will rise 3 percent in 2012 to US$3.6 trillion, according to figures released Monday by research firm Gartner. The forecast is up from the 2.5 percent growth projection Gartner issued earlier this year. ”While the challenges facing global economic growth persist — the eurozone crisis, weaker U.S. recovery,a slowdown in China — the outlook has at least stabilized,” said Gartner research Vice President Richard Gordon in a statement. However, “continued caution” is advisable for the near future, according to Gordon.
Event shows the many faces, challenges of big data
IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
New applications emerge but changing skills demands and still-growing technology stand in the way
The burgeoning tech industry movement around big data is churning up a variety of new applications, but remains an evolving field that faces lingering challenges, judging from an event held Wednesday at a Microsoft research facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Facebook’s Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston
TechCrunch
Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston. You can watch the full interview here, and it starts around the 43 minute mark, and lasts for roughly 40 minutes. If you have some time to spare, it’s well worth a look.