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Clint Boulton

Clint Boulton, a senior writer at CIO, covers IT leadership, digital transformation, and the CIO role. He was a content marketer for Dell APEX. Inspire IT leaders with tales about the advantages of multi-cloud infrastructures. Dunning-Kruger bias is something that keeps IT leaders sceptical, but curious nonetheless.

Homestore Coughs Up Consumer Credit Unit

Looking to bolster its balance sheet, embattled Homestore Tuesday agreed to sell its ConsumerInfo.com unit to Experian for $130 million in cash. The WestLake Village, Calif. real estate firm’s division provides consumers credit information online and will no doubt be…

Napster Opens Beta Test of New Service

What’s that saying about not being able to keep a good thing down? Napster Inc. — the embattled peer-to-peer file sharing concern shut out by the record industry and courts for gross copyright infringements — is creeping its way back…

uBid Latest Firm to Embrace MS’ .Net

Redmond, Wash.’s Microsoft Corp. and Chicago-based online auction and marketplace uBid Tuesday penned a broad alliance to improve services to attract more customers to the MSN network. The deal, for which financial terms were not disclosed, means that uBid, a…

Sun Forges Key CRM Deal with PeopleSoft

Long-time partners Sun Microsystems Inc. and e-business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. Wednesday embarked on a new global alliance aiming to place PeopleSoft’s customer relationship management (CRM) products in Sun’s Solaris 8 operating environment and Java-based platforms. The strategic deal between…