Accenture news and trends

BigCommerce Promotes Accenture Vet Travis Hess to CEO
Personnel // October 03, 2024

Composable eCommerce platform BigCommerce has a new chief executive. Travis Hess, who joined the company as president in May, has been appointed CEO, the company announced Wednesday (Oct. 2). He succeeds Brent Bellm, who had served as chief executive since 2015. “It’s been an amazing journey at the helm of...

Nvidia and Accenture Tie-up Promotes Corporate AI Adoption
Artificial Intelligence // October 02, 2024

Nvidia expanded its partnership with Accenture to help companies scale artificial intelligence adoption. The news comes as generative AI demand helped drive $3 billion in Accenture bookings in its latest fiscal year, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 2) press release. The expanded partnership includes the...

FTC Investigating Companies’ Use of Personal Data to Set Prices
Regulation // July 23, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking to learn more about companies’ use of personal data to categorize individuals and set individualized prices for the same goods or service — a practice it calls “surveillance pricing.” The regulator said in a Tuesday (July 23) press...

AI Money: Nvidia Soars, Oracle Invests $1B in Spain
artificial intelligence // June 20, 2024

In a week of seismic shifts in the tech industry, Nvidia has claimed the title of world’s most valuable company, surpassing a $3 trillion market cap on the back of soaring artificial intelligence (AI) demand, while Oracle announced a $1 billion investment in Spanish cloud...

Interviews & Exclusives
Experts Say OpenAI and Amazon Are Keepin’ It Real for AI

May 08, 2024
In a world increasingly flooded with artificial intelligence-generated content, tech behemoths are now locked in a high-stakes battle to develop cutting-edge tools that distinguish between what’s real and what’s not. From OpenAI’s launch of a new system to identify images created by its own DALL-E 3 text-to-image generator to Amazon’s deployment of AI to spot fraudulent reviews, companies are attempting to stay […]

Tech Giants Unite to Upskill Workforce for AI 

April 04, 2024
Tech heavyweights like Google and Microsoft have formed a task force to skill-up workers for the artificial intelligence (AI) era, addressing the urgent need for AI-savvy professionals in evolving job markets....

$1 Billion AI Education Platform Aims to Upgrade Employee Skills

March 07, 2024
Accenture’s new $1 billion investment in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tech education shows how the fast-growing field could help employees learn new skills. Accenture unveiled LearnVantage, an AI-driven learning platform that provides...

Lipstick Goes AI at CES

January 10, 2024
CES 2024 is shaping up to be a watershed event for artificial intelligence (AI) and the connected economy. After the pre-show hype focused on robotics and the connected home, the...

Quick Reads
BigCommerce Promotes Accenture Vet Travis Hess to CEO

October 03, 2024
Composable eCommerce platform BigCommerce has a new chief executive. Travis Hess, who joined the company as president in May, has been appointed CEO, the company announced Wednesday (Oct. 2). He succeeds Brent Bellm, who had served as chief executive since 2015. “It’s been an amazing journey at the helm of BigCommerce, and I’m incredibly proud of everything that we have […]

Nvidia and Accenture Tie-up Promotes Corporate AI Adoption

October 02, 2024
Nvidia expanded its partnership with Accenture to help companies scale artificial intelligence adoption. The news comes as generative AI demand helped drive $3 billion in Accenture bookings in its latest...

FTC Investigating Companies’ Use of Personal Data to Set Prices

July 23, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking to learn more about companies’ use of personal data to categorize individuals and set individualized prices for the same goods or service —...

Accenture and Oracle Partner on Generative AI for Finance Teams

May 06, 2024
Accenture and Oracle expanded their partnership to help clients accelerate their adoption of generative artificial intelligence in the finance organization. The new solutions offered through this collaboration aim to help chief financial officers reinvent financial...