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UK Investigates IBM’s Planned $6.4bn HashiCorp AcquisitionUK Investigates IBM’s Planned $6.4bn HashiCorp Acquisition

UK Investigates IBM’s Planned $6.4bn HashiCorp Acquisition

UK competition watchdog launches Phase 1 inquiry into IBM's planned acquisition of cloud service provider HashiCorp

1 month ago
CMA Delays Cloud Computing Report Until 2025CMA Delays Cloud Computing Report Until 2025

CMA Delays Cloud Computing Report Until 2025

UK competition regulator slightly delays its provisional report on the cloud computing sector and whether “behavioural” remedies are required

2 months ago
Microsoft Faces £1 Billion Lawsuit For Alleged OverchargingMicrosoft Faces £1 Billion Lawsuit For Alleged Overcharging

Microsoft Faces £1 Billion Lawsuit For Alleged Overcharging

Lawsuit filed in London against Microsoft alleges customers using rival cloud services, have to pay more to licence Windows Server

2 months ago
UK’s CMA Readies Cloud Sector “Behavioural” Remedies – ReportUK’s CMA Readies Cloud Sector “Behavioural” Remedies – Report

UK’s CMA Readies Cloud Sector “Behavioural” Remedies – Report

Targetting AWS, Microsoft? British competition regulator soon to announce “behavioural” remedies for cloud sector

3 months ago
FTC Plans Investigation Into Microsoft Cloud Business – ReportFTC Plans Investigation Into Microsoft Cloud Business – Report

FTC Plans Investigation Into Microsoft Cloud Business – Report

Microsoft's cloud business practices are reportedly facing a potential anti-competitive investigation by the FTC

3 months ago
Google To Make MFA Mandatory Next YearGoogle To Make MFA Mandatory Next Year

Google To Make MFA Mandatory Next Year

Improving security. Mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) is coming to the Google Cloud by the end of 2025

3 months ago
Amazon Boss Denies Return To Office Mandate Is ‘Backdoor Layoff’Amazon Boss Denies Return To Office Mandate Is ‘Backdoor Layoff’

Amazon Boss Denies Return To Office Mandate Is ‘Backdoor Layoff’

CEO Andy Jassy tells Amazon staff that the recent 5-day in-office mandate is not meant to be “a backdoor layoff”

3 months ago
AWS Tells Staff To Leave If They Don’t Wish To Return To OfficeAWS Tells Staff To Leave If They Don’t Wish To Return To Office

AWS Tells Staff To Leave If They Don’t Wish To Return To Office

Head of Amazon Web Services reportedly tells staff to leave if they don't like controversial new 5-day-per-week in-office policy

4 months ago
Amazon Finally Breaches $2 Trillion ValuationAmazon Finally Breaches $2 Trillion Valuation

Amazon Finally Breaches $2 Trillion Valuation

Long time coming. Amazon has reached a $2 trillion market capitalisation - six years after it passed a $1 trillion…

8 months ago
Microsoft At Risk Of EU Antitrust Charge Over Teams Bundling With OfficeMicrosoft At Risk Of EU Antitrust Charge Over Teams Bundling With Office

Microsoft At Risk Of EU Antitrust Charge Over Teams Bundling With Office

Unfair advantage says EU regulator, as Microsoft faces antitrust charge for bundling its Teams video app with Office suite

8 months ago
AI, Cloud Skills Gap Is Accelerating Training, Upskilling For FirmsAI, Cloud Skills Gap Is Accelerating Training, Upskilling For Firms

AI, Cloud Skills Gap Is Accelerating Training, Upskilling For Firms

SoftwareOne research finds cloud and AI skills gaps are accelerating retraining and upskilling efforts for nearly all UK businesses

8 months ago
Microsoft Announces Big Investments In Malaysia, Indonesia, ThailandMicrosoft Announces Big Investments In Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand

Microsoft Announces Big Investments In Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand

Microsoft's AI investments continue in south east Asia, after investments in Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, as well as Thailand

10 months ago
Ex Google Staff Fired Over Israel Protest File NLRB ComplaintEx Google Staff Fired Over Israel Protest File NLRB Complaint

Ex Google Staff Fired Over Israel Protest File NLRB Complaint

Dismissed staff file complaint with a US labor board, and allege Google unlawfully terminated their employment

10 months ago
Microsoft Beats Expectations Thanks To AI InvestmentsMicrosoft Beats Expectations Thanks To AI Investments

Microsoft Beats Expectations Thanks To AI Investments

Customer adoption of AI services embedded in cloud services continues to deliver results for Microsoft, pushing shares higher

10 months ago

Oracle Plans To Relocate HQ To Nashville

After relocating from California to Texas in 2020, Oracle's Larry Ellison now reveals plan to move HQ to Nashville, Tennessee

10 months ago

Microsoft Launches Smallest AI Model, Phi-3-mini

Lightweight artificial intelligence model launched this week by Microsoft, offering more cost-effective option for Azure customers

10 months ago

Google Fires 28 Staff Over Israel Protest, Undertakes More Layoffs

Protest at cloud contract with Israel results in staff firings, in addition to layoffs of unspecified number of employees

10 months ago

Amazon Web Services Lays Off Hundreds Of Staff

More job losses at Amazon, as AWS unit eliminates several hundred positions in sales, marketing and tech sections

11 months ago

Microsoft Singled Out In Review Of Chinese Hack Of US Government Emails

Cyber Safety Review Board concludes Chinese hack of top US government officials' emails was preventable, and blames Microsoft

11 months ago

McDonald’s International Outage Caused By Third Party

McDonald's says outage affecting thousands of locations across world caused by third-party tech provider carrying out 'configuration change'

11 months ago

Gartner Predicts Concerns For Enterprises Using Cloud-based Generative AI

Cloud technology will continue to be best delivery option for generative AI applications at scale, says Gartner

12 months ago

Jeff Bezos Offloads $2 Billion Worth Of Amazon Shares

Not enough yachts? Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sells 12 million shares for $2bn, after relocating to tax friendly Florida

1 year ago

UK Regulator Begins Scrutiny Of Microsoft Partnership With OpenAI

CMA seeks feedback about the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI, and whether it has antitrust implications

1 year ago

AWS re:Invent: Amazon Q Touted As New Business Chatbot

Amazon answer to ChatGPT? Amazon Web Services confirms launch of business focused AI chatbot called Amazon Q

1 year ago

AWS re:Invent: Amazon Announces Two New AI Chips

Amazon Web Services announces the next generation of two AWS-designed chip families, namely the AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2

1 year ago

AWS re:Invent: Amazon Nvidia Expand Collaboration

Amazon Web Services and Nvidia expand partnership with new supercomputing infrastructure, software and services for generative AI

1 year ago

Ofcom Refers Cloud Investigation Of Amazon, Microsoft To CMA

AWS tells Silicon UK it disagrees with Ofcom findings, as AWS and Microsoft is referred to CMA watchdog for further…

1 year ago