Woodstock Wire: Industry News

Tech -- TechCrunch - Hotel chain giant Marriott will now let you check if you're a victim of the Starwood hack.

The company confirmed to TechCrunch that...

Enterprise -- Computerworld - J.P. Morgan Chase plans to launch what is considered to be the first cryptocurrency backed by a major bank, a move that could...

Think -- Big Think - IBM's 2019 5 in 5 predicts major changes on the horizon. Food chain technology, from farmers' financing to desktop pathogen sensors,...

EE -- Enterprise IoT Insights - US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to commit certain federal government resources to the research...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - 4Q'18 Global Supply Chain Performance; Global Semiconductor Sales increased 13.7% y/y in 2018; Apple Suppliers in Japan chop...

Tech -- TechCrunch - This weekend, the Trump administration shed more light on the "American A.I. Initiative," a plan the President is set to sign today,...

Distribution -- EPS News - Editor's Note: This is the first of two articles examining the impact of tariffs -- positive and negative--on the electronics industry.

It...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - The U.S. trade deficit fell 11.5 percent in November to the lowest level since June.Contributed Author: Paul Weisman,...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - 4Q'18 Global Electronic Supply Chain Growth; January PMI Leading Indicators; Worldwide Smartphone shipments dropped 4.9% y/y...

EE -- Adafruit Industries - VentureBeat ran a story about the huge amount of capital flowing into Chinese businesses through Indiegogo.According to...

EE -- Enterprise IoT Insights - Germany, France and the U.K. will be the markets with the highest level of IoT adoption in 2019



Revenues for the...

Media -- Evertiq - Supplyframe says that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Buymanager, a sourcing and product cost management software for...

Think -- MIT Sloan Management Review - Business-to-business customers are people too.

An obvious truism? Perhaps, but you wouldn't know it from the...

entrepreneur.com -- In 1999, Bill Gates wrote a book titled Business @ the Speed of Thought.



In the book, Gates made 15 bold predictions that at the time might have sounded outrageous.



But as Markus Kirjonen, a business student, once noted on his blog, Gates' forecasts turned out to be eerily prescient.



Here are the 15 predictions Gates made just about 20 years ago -- and how close they've come to being true.

Tech -- NY Times Technology - The company, which has shifted the project's emphasis from manufacturing, said it would include a plant that turns out...

Tech -- TechCrunch - The federal government yesterday published the final rule for changes to the H1-B visa program, which is one of the primary conduits...

Distribution -- EPS News - The nation's manufacturing sector regained some lost ground in January as demand, production and consumption all increased from December,...

Tech -- GeekWire - Effective April 1, there will be new rules governing the H-1B visa, which U.S. tech companies use to hire...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - 4Q'18 Electronic Supply Chain Growth Slows; EMS & ODM Growth also Peaking; January "Flash" Purchasing Managers Indices; Japan...

Distribution -- Disti Blog - Silvio Baronchelli is stepping down after 35 years as President of the International Distribution of Electronics Association (IDEA),...

Distribution -- EPS News - CES 2019 was a white-knuckle roller-coaster of a ride, with some game-changing technology already here and more on...

Tech -- Mashable - China is one of the foremost nations embracing a fully connected society. In many major Chinese cities, sensor-filled machines that...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Europe Update; AI, 5G to Boost Penetration of HDI PCBs in Notebooks; TSMC Weak Year Ahead; Global NAND Flash Memory Market to...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Tech and political leaders sounded the alarm bell today about the potential for artificial intelligence to exacerbate huge inequalities...

Fortune -- INDUSTRY RANK - COMPANY

1 - Arrow Electronics

2 - Tech Data

3 - ScanSource

4 - Avnet

Tech -- TechCrunch - While we will continue to see a lot of consolidation among smaller startups in the area of financial technology, or fintech, there...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - 4Q'18 World Electronic Equipment Sales - Slowing Growth; China/Taiwan Update; Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue grew 13.4% y/y...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - The data indicates that inflation is mostly tame, despite steady economic growth and a very low unemployment rate.Contributed...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Microsoft forecasts how the world will respond to fake news, cyberattacks, AI, trade wars, and social-media regulation.

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - Germany's economic growth slowed in 2018 to the weakest rate in five years, adding to worries about a global downturn...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported November sales of $41.4 billion, up +9.8% from prior year and down -1.1%...

Media -- DIGITIMES - The huge annual trade deficit of up to US$375 billion is definitely a major reason for the US to raise tariffs on goods imported...

Enterprise -- ChannelE2E - Accenture Chairman & CEO Pierre Nanterme steps down for health reasons. Accenture CFO David Rowland named interim CEO. KC McClure...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Global Semiconductor Sales Up 9.8% Y/Y in November; December PMI Leading Indicators; Vietnam PCB Industry; China to Impose Stricter...

Distribution Dispatch -- The Institute for Supply Management made headlines last week as it announced its leading index for U.S. factory activity, the PMI, dropped in...

Business Wire -- CES(r) 2019 is the largest and most influential tech event in the world - where the entire technology ecosystem gathers to conduct business,...

Think -- Big Think - The global economy started 2018 with strong, synchronized growth. But as the year progressed, momentum faded and growth trends diverged....

Tech -- Digital Trends - Just how many successful products launched on Indiegogo last year? For the first time, the crowdfunding platform shared the...

EE -- Enterprise IoT Insights - IDC said global IoT spending will reach $745 billion this year



Internet of things spending in the United States...

Enterprise -- Channelnomics - IDC: Internet of Things Spending Will Top $745B in 2019A new report by IDC projects spending on Internet of Things (IoT) devices,...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Roads in a Chinese city have gotten much quieter in recent years. Shenzhen, widely called the Silicon Valley of hardware, has been...

Tech -- The Verge - CES 2019 is upon us, and The Verge is headed back to Las Vegas to bring you all of the news from the gadget-filled electronics show...

PR Newswire -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty will deliver the opening keynote at CES 2019 on Tuesday, Jan. 8. CES is the largest...

Distribution -- EPS News - U.S. factory activity in December plunged to a four-year low as new orders, production and employment declined sharply from November...

Enterprise -- Information Week - When the IBM Watson Personality API analyzed these female tech leader's words, it identified nine traits as being most dominant.

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Semiconductor Market to enter New Growth Phase as early as September 2019; Chip Demand for 5G Base Station Equipment to emerge...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - U.S. consumer confidence tumbled this month as Americans began to worry that economic growth will moderate next...

Tech -- TechCrunch - The timing is... less than ideal. Just as the industry is recovering from a holiday-induced hangover, we're thrust into the country's...

U.S. News -- China's economy, trade tensions between Washington and Beijing and cybersecurity threats are the top risks for 2019.

Enterprise -- Computerworld - Remembering our industry's innovators



They were the founders of such household names as Atari...