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France orders big tech firms to start paying digital tax

By Mike Wheatley Nov 25, 2020

France is moving ahead with its plan to implement a controversial digital tax on big tech companies, sending out notices to various companies today informing them they’ll be required to pay up if they…

Infra

Microsoft to open its most sustainable data center in Sweden next year

By Mike Wheatley Nov 25, 2020

Microsoft Corp. said this week it’s planning to open in Sweden next year what it says will be one of the most advanced and sustainable data center locations it has ever built. The company…

Cloud

New perspectives on diversity, growth, security and hybrid storage shaped KubeCon 2020

By Mark Albertson Nov 25, 2020

When Google partnered with the Linux Foundation to create the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2015, the new group launched with 18 members. At the time, the founders issued a call that they were…

AI

Cloud monitoring, security and IT efficiency among key topics for discussion at AIOps Virtual Forum

By Mark Albertson Nov 25, 2020

There is a saying attributed to Confucius that states that “life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” The 6th century BC Chinese philosopher never saw the age of enterprise computing,…

Cloud

Update: AWS fixes cloud outage that caused service disruptions across the web

By Maria Deutscher Nov 25, 2020

Amazon Web Services Inc. is experiencing a technical issue with its Kinesis Data Streams service that has caused disruptions for Roku Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Roomba maker iRobot Corp. and a number of other…

Cloud

Report: Salesforce may buy Slack for $17B+

By Maria Deutscher Nov 25, 2020

Slack Technologies Inc.’s share price surged more than 20% today following a report from the Wall Street Journal that Salesforce.com Inc. may be looking to buy the company. The Journal’s sources said that an acquisition,…

Cloud

Stripe reportedly eyeing new funding at $70B+ valuation

By Maria Deutscher Nov 25, 2020

Stripe Inc., the startup whose technology powers the online payment features of Amazon and numerous other online platforms, is reportedly in talks for a new round of funding at a valuation exceeding $70 billion.…

Policy

After election, Facebook changed algorithm to highlight authoritative news sources

By James Farrell Nov 24, 2020

In response to a surge of misinformation on its platform after the election, Facebook Inc. reportedly made changes to its algorithm to favor more reliable news sources. According to a report published in the New…

Security

User data stolen from event organizing service Peatix offered for sale online

By Duncan Riley Nov 24, 2020

Event organizing service Peatix Inc. has suffered a data breach with the details of up to 6.77 million users offered for sale online. The data breach, reported to have occurred earlier this month, included full names,…

Cloud

Amazon debuts a fully managed version of Apache Airflow for data processing workloads

By Mike Wheatley Nov 24, 2020

Amazon Web Services Inc. added to its growing catalog of big data services today with the launch of a new managed offering that helps customers execute data processing workloads in the cloud. The new…

the latest

France orders big tech firms to start paying digital tax

Microsoft to open its most sustainable data center in Sweden next year

Cloud monitoring, security and IT efficiency among key topics for discussion at AIOps Virtual Forum

Report: Salesforce may buy Slack for $17B+

Stripe reportedly eyeing new funding at $70B+ valuation

After election, Facebook changed algorithm to highlight authoritative news sources

User data stolen from event organizing service Peatix offered for sale online

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