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Now that Microsoft's $26.2 billion purchase of LinkedIn is a done deal, CEO Satya Nadella has spelled out some much-anticipated details surrounding plans to integrate the compani...
Microsoft is making some changes to its event lineup for 2017, with the biggest one being the cancellation of the Envision conference for business leaders previously slated for Feb...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff lost out famously to Microsoft in bidding for LinkedIn, and in the wake of it lodged concerns with U.S. and European regulators over whether Microsoft w...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is set to meet with a group of top technology company executives next week. The exact attendee list is not yet public, but Politico reports that l...
Managed mobility solutions vendor Synchronoss is plunking down $821 million in cash to acquire Intralinks Holdings, maker of secure filesharing and collaboration software. Synchron...
Prominent ex-hacker George Hotz cancelled his work on a commercial aftermarket system for self-driving cars after federal regulators expressed reservations over its safety. Some mo...
In a move that was undoubtedly set to happen at some point, IBM has launched a new IoT consulting practice that it says can give enterprises a single throat to choke'sas well as ...
The notion of machine-powered facial recognition is one that predates today's actual technology for it by many years, thanks to robot POV shots from sci-fi films such as the Termin...
A key goal of Amazon Web Services over the past couple of years is attracting more enterprise customers and mission-critical, production workloads to its service. During a keynote ...
This month, the venerable ICQ chat client turns 20 years old, and does so in a market where chat is more popular and embedded in both consumer and enterprise applications than ever...
This week marks Amazon Web Services' annual re:Invent conference, which has grown by leaps and bounds in accordance with the cloud vendor's majority share of the IaaS (infrastructu...
The mounting number of high-profile hacks related to IoT (Internet of Things) devices should give anyone cause for concern. A big reason the hacks are occurring has to do with a la...
Oracle has spent the past few years building out a global data center network for its cloud services operations, and is hoping to improve performance and customer experience across...
Salesforce reported its third-quarter results on Thursday, with numbers that well exceeded analysts' expectations. Of more interest to many customers than the dollars and cents is ...
Verint Systems is moving deeper into customer engagement with the purchase of OpinionLab, which offers a system for collecting customer feedback in real time. Terms of the deal wer...
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Analytics and Azure Data Lake Store, a pair of cloud services aimed at making big data analytics an easier propo...
Once upon a time, ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called the Linux OS a "cancer." Today, under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft released a public preview ver...
Every tech vendor is sure to line up significant announcements for their high-profile conferences, but GE Digital may have overachieved this week in conjunction with its IoT-focuse...
Koch Industries' investment arm has just placed a massive bet on Infor, striking a deal that will provide the privately held ERP vendor with more than $2 billion in investment. Inf...
With Donald Trump poised to take over the U.S. presidency, does it make sense for all of us to move to encrypted e-mail if we want to preserve our privacy? Encrypted e-mail provide...
Hortonworks is taking a significant step forward into the cloud with its Hadoop distribution, announcing the availability of a new managed service on Amazon Web Services dubbed Hor...
The long-anticipated sale of tech publishing giant IDG may be near, with a Chinese investment group in talks to purchase the company for more than $1 billion, according to Reuters....
What do you do when you're reading an article or paper, one that it's very important you understand, and get stumped by a particular passage? More often than not, you'll head over ...
General Electric is plunking down $915 million to acquire field service software vendor ServiceMax, in a move that should strengthen its already robust IoT (Internet of Things) str...
The shock waves from Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in this year's historic presidential election won't fade for quite a while, and Trump's presidency has yet to even ...
Adobe is beefing up its Marketing Cloud product family with the $540 million acquisition of TubeMogul, maker of a video advertising platform. Here are the key details from Adobe's ...
HubSpot's annual Inbound conference'swhich it positions as a must-attend event for marketing and sales professionals in general, and not as a HubSpot user conference'sis underway t...
This week's unveiling of SAP HANA 2.0 is of particular symbolic and practical importance for both SAP and its customer base, as it underscores how much the in-memory computing plat...
The U.S. government has taken an important step forward following the release of its open-source software policy in August, with the unveiling of Code.gov, a portal aimed at helpin...
Oracle has closed its $9.3 billion acquisition of cloud ERP vendor NetSuite, overcoming resistance from large NetSuite shareholders and gaining a prominent addition to its cloud pr...