SAP has announced it will acquire Qualtrics International for $8 billion in cash. Qualtrics, the online sentiment tracker, had planned to IPO but was thwarted by the software giant’s generous offer, with some commentators indicating that the price was too steep
Category Archives: Tech
The Future of Work and how to stay ahead of it
The future of work is going to be impacted by a multitude of forces: automation, AI, distributed workforces and more efficient tech. This, in turn, will have impacts on the talent acquisition, contracts, conditions and wages.
The rise of voice technology
Every innovator is watching the waves being made by voice assistant technologies from companies such as Google, Amazon and Apple. Arguably Amazon has been making some of the most focused efforts on bringing developers and SMB’s on board
Oath making plays in the content world
Oath, part of Verizon communications (Nasdaq: VZ), is making plays in the content world with a growing clutch of major content sites and a keen interest in the open source technology underpinning
Articles by Linda Scott published in Jetpack blog
Starting in 2017, I wrote a number of articles for the Jetpack blog. For those who don’t already know, Jetpack is the all-in-one plugin for WordPress, produced by the folks at Automattic.
Silverlake making moves in the WordPress space
You’ll notice on this site I’m covering a lot of WordPress subject matter. I started with WordPress in 2006, and have been working with the platform on projects and client work ever since. WordPress now provides the backbone for 30% of all websites
Articles by Linda Scott published in WordPress Go
So I’ve had a couple of pieces published in the WordPress Go blog, which is for self-starting website owners using the WordPress.com platform