Puerto Rico is a blank slate ready to reinvent itself. Offering tax incentives for new businesses, a strong internet, and a young, passionate population, the island is looking to drop its tourism-centered economy and become a hub of the new digital world. Taking the opportunity to help is Disrupt, a media agency based in New York City that focuses ...

Ever considered being trained by your gym shorts? It seems far-fetched, but California-based Asensei Inc. sees the opportunity for a new fitness training category to emerge alongside connected fitness: connected coaching. Central to the concept of connected coaching is smart apparel that tracks not just biometrics but biomechanics, including an athlete’s technique, posture, movement and timing. ...

Puerto Rico today is more likely to conjure images of hurricane devastation than crowds of cryptocurrency enthusiasts partying until dawn, but the Blockchain Unbound conference attracted the technology world for a tropical spring break that could herald a sea change in the island’s fortune. With a huge reserve of trained scientists and engineers, alongside a focus on ...

The technology industry is inclusive when it looks for customers, so it seems common sense that a diverse workforce would be an asset to create products and services that appeal to all segments of society. Though the tech sector still struggles with successful diversity initiatives, the research arm of an enterprise organization can be a haven for innovation. Reporting from ...

Raw data can be compared with the raw ingredients for a gourmet dish. The potential is there, but it needs to be prepared correctly before being served up for consumption. Creating a successful platform for streaming integration analytics takes more than than stuffing things in and taking things out. And just as many chefs shout ...

There’s a crisis in the Fortune 500: Data that is stuck in silos, hard to access, and unorganized, as well as poor interdepartmental communications, turf wars, and company structure focused around personnel are all factors that mean valuable data is not optimized. This leads to lost revenue opportunities and lackluster customer relations. “I routinely run into ...

Organizations stuck with slow, mucky data swamps are not alone. Huge companies like Yahoo Inc. and Twitter Inc. may have the resources to create real-time streaming data platforms, but most companies are still searching for a way to provide speedy data to their users. Open source could democratize real-time data tools for more enterprises. Taking advantage of open-source technology ...

Diversity in the workplace is an impractical ideal without a talent pool of diverse candidates from which to choose. And qualified minority candidates, especially women, have always been a rare breed on the tech hiring scene. But is that about to change? “We’re definitely seeing more and more women getting excited with big data and ...

A passion for math and science started Dawn Woodard (pictured) on a career path in data science, but she counts herself fortunate to have had the support and mentorship of other women, including her mother, along the way. From her current leadership role as a woman in data science — she is the senior data ...

Adoption of cloud computing technologies is exploding within the public sector, with cloud provisioning companies such as Four Points Technology LLC claiming a significant increase in federal demand. It seems as if the industry’s mission, led by giants including Amazon Web Services Inc., is succeeding, as newly cloud-cognizant government, non-profit and educational organizations go virtual. “All of the missionary work, ...