Back in 2006, Lawrence McDonald, a former Lehman Brothers bond trader, remembers, he asked an intern what he was doing during the winter break at the now bankrupt investment bank. The intern, who was ...

In response to the June 27 Perspectives column by Charles Cooper, "": Your points on intellectual property are well-taken and pithy, but in the case of "open source" versus "proprietary" versus ...

Open source is now the standard for the software industry. Proprietary software is no longer the Goliath it once was. As the demand for more transparency yet better security increases, the challenges ...

Proprietary information is confidential information that a company owns and safeguards to protect itself. When any of an organization's intellectual property is recorded on paper, it becomes a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Usually proprietary means exclusive. But when it comes to quantitative equity models that some mutual fund managers charge a premium for, proprietary is a matter of degree. Even ...

As part of my interview with Dean Drako of Barracuda Networks, he mentioned to me some survey work Barracuda has done. Barracuda talked to 228 enterprise customers and asked what advantages open ...

The broader mortgage industry and the reverse mortgage subset have worked through a period of elevated interest rates for longer than anyone may have been expecting. Following a post-pandemic boom in ...

Note from the CEO: Ah, proprietary, my favorite word (or one of them) which means “mine mine mine mine”. It also allows you to not have to explain things to others by just saying “its proprietary”.

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

How do you define file formats which are "proprietary"? For example, Libre Office can save files in .doc format which is weird because I know MS like taking organisations to court over stuff like this ...