Times are tough for legacy technology companies that used to dominate the IT world — but their CEOs are still enjoying magnificent pay packets.

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Recently, News Corp Australia made its first seed investment in augmented reality company Plattar — a cloud based platform that allows publishers to create, manage and distribute augmented reality content. The Plattar platform comprises a template driven app builder and content management system for managing augmented reality experiences and can deploy content to any device. Augmented reality is touted to be the next major component in consumer engagement, especially in the real estate and gaming. News Corp’s investment appears to be aimed at tapping the potential of this technology. According to a report by Manatt digital media, augmented reality is expected to generate $80 billion in revenue (excluding hardware) by 2020 and become the backbone of immersive journalism where readers can experience a story and be part of it. We believe News Corp’s digital real estate business can get a boost by use of augmented reality technology and an immersive consumer experience can drive the company’s revenues in future.

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Industry leaders including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Rackspace Hosting, and RedHat have invested significant time and resources into making OpenStack enterprise-ready. However, it is only recently that OpenStack has reached a tipping point to be truly equipped for deployment by a broad base of IT organizations. Jimmy Pike and I recently published a paper detailing the history of OpenStack and the community’s key focus areas that now make the platform ready for enterprise adoption. Below are the 3 reasons why we believe OpenStack is now ready for use by mainstream enterprise IT.

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Cities are hotter than their rural surroundings. So what can trees do about it?

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There are a ton of defunct sports video game series. Many of them should stay hidden away, but some are sorely missed by sports gamers across the world. I decided to narrow the list of sports video games we wished existed down to 10. This article represents the first in a 10-part series. It might just wind up being an elongated wish list, but here we go…

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Marvel Games announces new content and characters across its titles and platforms, part of Marvel’s strategy to immerse fans in the story universe that moves forward next week with Captain America: Civil War.

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Micro-risks, micro-premiums, flash crashes, privacy, and other things in evolving insurance for autonomous cars.

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Unisys makes its move into security. Can the company compete with IBM, Cisco, and the major cybersecurity players?

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