The popularity of wearables like Fitbit and the Apple Watch has caught the attention of the military, and the Pentagon will explore how such new gadgets can help troops on the battlefield. On Friday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced funding for the Flexible Hybrid Electronic Institute in San Jose, Calif., led by the FlexTech Alliance. It’s a consortium of 162 companies, universities and nonprofits that includes Apple (AAPL),
On the same day that fans swarmed Madison Square Garden to watch gamers square off in the North American “League of Legends” summer finals, the Swedes clobbered the French at a “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive” championship in Germany. The latter reportedly drew in over 27 million unique viewers online, helping exclusive live-streaming partner Twitch surpass the 2 million concurrent viewer mark on Sunday. As pro-gaming becomes a heavily watched
Salesforce.com (CRM) is trying to become a $10 billion company as well as tap into a target-rich environment, and it may well have made huge strides toward both with its announcement Tuesday of plans to offer wealth management services software to the cloud. The big player in cloud customer relationship management software, Salesforce said it will start offering this financial services package — called the Salesforce Financial Services Cloud — as