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• PepsiCo CIO Ursula Phillips departs

  ​PepsiCo Australia and New Zealand chief information officer Ursula Phillips is departing the company next month.

• Coca-Cola finds innovation with start-ups

  The word "innovation" gets bandied about at virtually every tech event. It's the magic key to unlocking great competitive advantage and disrupting entire markets. CIOs are supposed to be masters of innovation.

• Coca-Cola Co.'s 'Black Book' application squeezes best out of OJ

  Everyone wonders about the secret formula for Coke. But at The Coco-Cola Company, whose brands like Minute Maid make it the No. 1 juice maker in the world, there's a secret formula in an internal application called the "Black Book" that tells how to run the company's global juice business.

• Microsoft promises Nadella up to $18M for fiscal year 2015

  Microsoft this week set Satya Nadella's annual base salary at $1.2 million, nearly twice his predecessor's but right on the average of CEOs in the tech industry, an executive compensation expert said today.

• Shout.tv Live Events App Ready to Tackle the Super Bowl

  Shout.tv wanted to attract millions of fans of sports and other live events to play sponsored trivia games for cash and prizes. But each game was like a DDoS attack on its data centers. As a solution, the company turned to a distributed database management system called NuoDB.

• Apple beats Coca-Cola to emerge as most valuable global brand

  Apple has emerged as the most valuable brand in the world, passing Coca-Cola which held the top position for 13 years, according to a report released by brand consultancy Interbrand.

• Coca-Cola cloud chief reveals VMware wish list

  Mariano Maluf is president of the VMware User Group (VMUG), which counts about 80,000 individual members with technical interests related to VMware's virtual-machine software (the group includes local chapters, lots of free education and special interest groups). In his job as cloud ecosystem architecture lead at the Coca-Cola Co., Maluf has firsthand knowledge of deploying VMware products. Here's what's on his mind heading into next week's annual VMworld conference in San Francisco.

• Isis mobile wallet to roll out nationwide this year

  Isis will roll out its mobile wallet application nationwide later this year following successful pilots that launched last fall in Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

• Coke bottler picks SaaS over SAP

  Gas prices may be rising, federal sequestration looming, and perhaps another meteor will strike. Bad things are happening, but not so much to Software as a Service providers.

• Cloud security to be most disruptive technology of 2012

  The Security for Business Innovation Council, comprised of IT security professionals from 19 companies worldwide, called Cloud computing the main disruptive force for 2013. In its report, "Information Security Shake-Up," the group said it was evident many organizations are preparing to move more business processes to the cloud. This year, it will even be "mission-critical apps and regulated data" consigned to the cloud.

• The rise of the machines

  Machine-to-machine communication is set to dominate Internet use but will create a huge number of data issues.

• Sustaining your career during unsettled times

  Sustainability, or creating economic prosperity without wreaking ecological havoc, is very much on the minds of executives at big brand companies like Coca-Cola, American Greetings and UPS.

• Stallman parody site catches Stallman's eye

  A recent online posting of Richard Stallman's astonishingly long set of instructions for those who would hire him as an event speaker has spawned a parody website -- The Stallman Dialogues -- as well as some debate over the propriety of people constantly poking fun at the enigmatic and controversial founder of the Free Software Foundation.

• How CIOs Can Build a Better Brand

  When Tom Peck, CIO at Levi Strauss, spoke at this year's CIO 100 Symposium, there was something distinctive about his presentation: It was light on IT and heavy on marketing. It sounded like a commercial-which was a good thing.

• Advanced persistent threats force IT to rethink security priorities

  The biggest business challenge today, in the minds of many information security officers, is the stealthy online infiltration by attackers to steal valuable proprietary information. The reality, they say, is that these so-called "advanced persistent threats" are so rampant and unrelenting they are forcing IT to rethink network security.