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Yahoo set to axe 1,600 staff in cost-cutting exercise
Yahoo! Inc. is set to announce a major round of layoffs that could comprise up to 15 percent of its total workforce, when it announces its four quarter earnings later today, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. The report follows a similar story by Business Insider last month, which said Yahoo was looking to layoff ...
Microsoft looks to ‘FastTrack’ small businesses to Office 365
Microsoft has revamped its FastTrack service offering in an bid to get more small businesses to use its Office 365 productivity suite. The offer is available to businesses with over fifty employees, who will be able to access resources from Microsoft’s FastTrack Center, and seek assistance from a specialist FastTrack team engineer to help them ...
Microsoft adds DevTest Labs to Azure’s Blockchain-as-a-Service
Microsoft has announced another major boost to its Azure cloud computing platform in the shape of its new DevTest Labs integration, aimed at helping developers test their blockchain-based applications. “Blockchain technologies will become even easier to build and test using Azure’s DevTest Labs currently in preview,” wrote Marley Gray, director of Technology Strategy at Microsoft ...
IBM’s Rometty snags a $4.5m bonus
IBM’s CEO Ginni Rometty is to be “rewarded” for 15 straight quarters of declining sales and the slow but sure erosion of the firm’s share price with a not inconsiderable $4.5 million bonus. Rometty, whose base salary amounts to $1.6 million a year, actually declined to accept last year’s $3.6 million bonus, saying that she ...
Obama to launch $4bn tech education initiative
President Obama has called on Congress to approve a new $4 billion spending plan that would see computer science taught to all elementary, middle and high school students in the U.S. Obama announced his three-year initiative, called “Computer Science for All” during last week’s radio address. He said the $4 billion would be given to ...
Ubuntu lands on Microsoft’s hybrid Azure Stack
Microsoft has made Ubuntu available on the technical preview of Azure Stack, it’s newly release private and hybrid cloud bundle for on-premises deployment. Released earlier this week, Azure Stack is a technology bundle that allows customers to build the Azure Cloud in their own data centers. And although you’ll need some pretty sophisticated hardware to ...
Gartner: Most enterprises are gearing up for Windows 10
Microsoft is willing to go to all kinds of lengths to push PC users onto Windows 10, but its new operating system is already seeing significant success in the enterprise, according to a new report from Gartner Inc. The analyst firm says an unprecedented number of businesses are evaluating Windows 10 with an eye to ...
Wal-Mart takes OneOps off the shelf, sticks it on GitHub
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is getting into the open-source game, unleashing the code for its cloud management and application lifecyle platform OneOps on GitHub for the entire world to slice and dice. For those who’re unfamiliar, OneOps is platform for developers to build and launch their cloudy apps across a variety of platforms and ...
Microsoft looks to the cloud as revenues dip
Microsoft’s cloud transformation remains on track, with its latest quarterly earnings offering more encouragement even as the tech giant saw its overall revenues dip. The big news from the call was Microsoft Azure’s fantastic performance – revenues jumped by 127 percent from one year ago, with sales of Azure Premium Services like Machine Learning tripling ...
Lyft’s drivers agree to drop “employee” claims in return for $12.25m pay out
Ride hailing app Lyft Inc. looks to have ended a class-action battle between itself and its drivers yesterday after agreeing to settle out of court for $12.25 million. The settlement, which still needs to be ratified by Judge Vince Chhabria of the California Northern US District Court, would bring to an end a battle which ...