Acer chairman to leave PC maker in June, no replacement named

Nokia's $100M investment suggests its next focus may be 'Connecting cars' Symantec partners to fend off zero-day attacks IT News Daily May 05, 2014 Share this email Acer chairman to leave PC maker in June, no replacement named After six months as Acer's chairman, company co-founder Stan Shih plans to step down on June 18, saying he is satisfied with the PC maker's new direction. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Nokia's $100M investment suggests its next focus may be 'Connecting cars' 2. Symantec partners to fend off zero-day attacks 3. Data breaches 9% more costly in 2013 than year before 4. EMC heads back to the high-stakes software table 5. Gates cedes Microsoft shareholder crown to former No. 2, Ballmer 6. SAP tech chief Sikka steps down in management shakeup Nokia's $100M investment suggests its next focus may be 'Connecting cars' For years, Nokia sold mobile phones with the slogan "Connecting people," but following the sale of its phone business to Microsoft, the company is looking for the next big thing. READ MORE Symantec partners to fend off zero-day attacks Symantec today announced its Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) effort for new products and managed security services to support enterprise customers in fending off targeted zero-day attacks in particular. One first step in this entails partnering with Check Point Software, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks to share threat detection information that can rapidly be integrated into Symantec endpoint protection software. READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Open Business Conference Attend the Open Business Conference May 5-6 and discover... How tools for leveraging data have opened up almost completely. From Hadoop to Open Stack to NoSQL and technologies like MongoDB, never have so many powerful technologies been available to so many. As Big Data matures, these tools are becoming increasingly accessible. Register and attend May 5-6, 2014, The Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Click to continue Data breaches 9% more costly in 2013 than year before It cost U.S. companies hit by data breaches last year an average of $5.4 million to cope with the after-effects – up 9% from the year before, according to the ninth annual Ponemon Institute study published Monday. READ MORE EMC heads back to the high-stakes software table EMC's big bet on software is likely to get even bigger at this week's EMC World conference in Las Vegas. READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IDG TV IDG.tv is now live! Watch all the latest videos from IDG's global network of technology experts, all teed up in searchable channels with a fun, fresh look. Click to continue Gates cedes Microsoft shareholder crown to former No. 2, Ballmer Bill Gates last week ceded his title as Microsoft's largest individual shareholder to former CEO Steve Ballmer. READ MORE SAP tech chief Sikka steps down in management shakeup SAP technology chief Vishal Sikka, champion of the company's Hana in-memory computing platform, is leaving the company in a major management shakeup shortly before co-CEO Bill McDermott is expected to be named sole CEO. READ MORE Follow IT News Share this email You are currently subscribed to itnews_daily as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com To contact IT News, please send an e-mail to online@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 IT News, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **