David Thompson has risen from CIO of companies like Symantec and Oracle to EVP of Operations and CIO of Western Union. He has also joined the board of a publicly traded company. This advancement can be attributed to his having always viewed the CIO role as a true business role. As such, he is at the center of the innovation agenda at Western Union, helping to drive the next generation of payment products and services for the company.

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Is the travel sector ripe for disruption with blockchain technology?With a trillion dollar industry that estimates over a billion tourists per annum having suffered a lack of innovation for many years, startupTamTam Travelsis now looking to “leverage the power of blockchain” technology and combine it with member benefits and discounts […]

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Graham Smith, CEO and founder of Energy Focus, speculates that his company could be gone in about three to five years. But he’s OK with that. Energy Focus is the latest entrant in the hot, but likely short-lived, sector for renewable finance. It’s a straightforward proposition. These companies provide loans or PACE […]

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Is it harmful to not finish antibiotics? This question was originally answered on Quora by Drew Smith.

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This article was originally published at Stratfor.com. By Matthew Bey Space may be miles above us, but how it is being used — and by whom — is becoming increasingly important here on Earth. As of now, the United States leads the world in space exploration and exploitation, but China is determined […]

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If oxygen masks on airlines have empty bags, where is the oxygen stored? This question was originally answered on Quora by C Stuart Hardwick.

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Is the Cloud industry already dominated or does it have room for disruption? This question was originally answered on Quora by Steve Herrod.

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Businesses have gone data crazy. You can’t blame them. Streaming, real-time data analysis promises to bring the type of predictability that cuts costs, solves problems and grows sales. That seemed to be the unofficial theme of the Strata + Hadoop World conference held recentlyin New York. Each year the brightest minds […]

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What are the biggest issues in cyber security in 2016? This question was originally answered on Quora by Steve Herrod.

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Back in the days when ‘Bubbles’ – the liquid-cooled Cray 2 – was the fastest supercomputer in the world and before LISP was the programming language of choice in Marvin Minsky’s new AI Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the pioneers of Artificial Intelligence had lofty goals. They believed that […]

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