5. IT Departments Flourish Despite Layoffs: Budget Increases Focus on Innovation

Despite significant layoffs at major tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, IT departments across the broader business world are seeing growth in both budgets and hiring.

4. Bloomin’ Brands Appoints New Chief Information Officer

Bloomin’ Brands, Inc., a global casual dining leader with over 1,450 restaurants including Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s, Bonefish Grill, and Fleming’s, has appointed its next CIO.

3. Navigating the Future: CIO Strategies for AI, Data, and Cybersecurity Success

Gartner’s latest CIO Report emphasizes the growing complexity of the CIO’s role by identifying the top five questions most frequently asked by IT leaders.

2. Camouflage Gone Wrong: Meta’s $101M Fine for Password Security Lapse

Meta has been fined $101.5 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission for failing to secure hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ passwords during a 2019 data breach.

1. Technology Transformation: The Big and Small of It

Every few years, new trends sweep across the technology sector, and while AI is the latest, one trend that’s become increasingly pervasive is transformation.