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Dell Inc.’s announcement that it wants to auction off Perot Systems, its healthcare IT consulting business, has led to a frenzy of speculation regarding prospective buyers, with at least four companies said to be interested. Dell let it be known late last year it …
Diane Greene took $148.6M from Google and donated it all to charity
Google’s new parent company Alphabet Inc. revealed today that it paid a whopping $380.2 million to acquire Bebop Technologies, the startup most recently led by its new cloud boss and ex-Vmware Inc. founder Diane Greene. Out of that deal, Green raked in …
Intel snaps up drone maker Ascending Technologies
Intel just can’t get enough of drones lately. Following on from last year’s $60 million investment in Hong Kong-based Yuneec International, the chip maker now says it’s going to acquire Germany’s Ascending Technologies GmbH for an undisclosed sum. Ascending Technologies builds a …
Microsoft claims Windows 10 growth is faster than any previous version
Microsoft reckons Windows 10 is getting off to a flying start, and is now installed on upwards of 200 million devices. The boast comes just after Internet analytics firm Net Applications posted data showing Windows 10 is now the fourth-most popular operating …
Sizing up the public cloud: Microsoft bets on the hybrid horse
One of a series of articles analyzing the strategies the largest public cloud vendors are using to court enterprise customers. Previous installments looked at Amazon Web Services, IBM, Google and Oracle. While many cite Amazon Web Services’ early start as one of the main …
Windows 10 is rapidly gaining on Windows XP
Microsoft will be quietly pleased to learn that Windows 10 is inching closer to surpassing the venerable Windows XP operating system in terms of desktop market share. End of year stats from Internet analytics firm Net Applications reveal that Windows 10 has …
Yahoo looks to sell off Santa Clara development site amid ongoing restructuring efforts
Yahoo! Inc. has wrapped up a difficult year by announcing it’s looking to sell a 48.6-acre development site in Santa Clara it’s owned for several years. The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that the site, located near Levi’s Stadium, has been owned …
Ex-Yandex employee convicted of trying to sell its search engine source code
A former employee of Russian Internet giant Yandex, the dominant search engine in that country, has been handed a two-year suspended jail sentence for stealing and trying to sell the source code for Yandex Search online. The Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that …
Stupid Patent of the Month award goes to Microsoft
Microsoft has landed the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) revered “Stupid Patent of the Month” award for December after claiming it ‘invented’ the incredibly simple “slider bar” in its ongoing court battler with Canadian firm Corel Corp. The peculiar thing is that graphical …
LinkedIn reflects on its open-source successes in 2015
With 2015 coming to an end, LinkedIn Corp. has taken a look back at its year of using, developing and contributing to open-source software. Throughout the last year, LinkedIn made some of its biggest ever contributions to the open-source community by releasing …