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Blockchain

Consensys announces Skale as the first project to launch a token on its Activate platform

By Kyt Dotson Feb 11, 2020

Activate, a blockchain-based token management platform from Consensys Codefi, today announced that its first customer will be Skale Network, a decentralized ledger blockchain platform for securely scaling up Ethereum-based distributed applications. Announced in October,…

Cloud

Refinitiv brings its Tick History financial data to Google’s cloud

By Mike Wheatley Feb 11, 2020

Financial markets data provider Refinitiv Ltd. said today it’s making its Tick History dataset available on the Google Cloud Platform. It’s a significant move because it means customers will be able to query and…

Apps

Apple and others may have avoided supply shortages as some Foxconn plants reopen in China

By Duncan Riley Feb 11, 2020

Apple Inc., along with various other tech companies, may have avoided serious supply shortages as some plants belonging to Chinese electronics manufacturer Foxconn partially opened Monday, despite conflicting reports that they might not. Reuters reported Monday that…

Cloud

Infosys buys Salesforce consulting firm Simplus for up to $250M

By Duncan Riley Feb 10, 2020

Outsourcing giant Infosys Ltd. said today it has reached an agreement to acquire Salesforce.com Inc. partner consulting firm Simplus Inc. Infosys did not disclose a specific acquisition price, but a regulatory filing said the acquisition…

Cloud

Slack stock rockets, then falls back, after erroneous report about IBM relationship

By Duncan Riley Feb 10, 2020

Shares in Slack Technologies Inc. surged as high as 21% today after a report claimed that International Business Machines Corp. had picked the company to exclusively provide its 350,000 employees with workplace collaboration tools.…

Policy

Amid staff tensions, Google’s HR chief steps down

By James Farrell Feb 10, 2020

Eileen Naughton, Google LLC’s head of human resources, will step down from her role at the company amid growing tensions between staff and management. Naughton had been with Google since 2006 and had spent…

Cloud

Terraform and AlgoSec integrations highlight Cisco’s app-centric focus for multicloud world

By Mark Albertson Feb 10, 2020

Among the many announcements from Cisco Live in Barcelona was the news that Cisco System Inc. would release Terraform support for application-centric infrastructure, or ACI. This recent move by Cisco, in concert with HashiCorp…

Security

US charges four members of Chinese military over 2017 Equifax data breach

By Maria Deutscher Feb 10, 2020

U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced today that four members of China’s military have been charged in connection with the 2017 Equifax Inc. breach that compromised the personal data of over 145 million Americans.…

Infra

Xerox ups HP takeover bid to $34B as it prepares March 2 tender offer

By Maria Deutscher Feb 10, 2020

Xerox Holdings Corp. has turned up its effort to perform a hostile takeover of HP Inc. another notch, raising its bid for the computer and printer maker to $34 billion from $33.5 billion before.…

Policy

AWS seeks testimony from Trump, Defense Secretary Esper in JEDI legal battle

By Maria Deutscher Feb 10, 2020

Amazon Web Services Inc. is doubling down on its challenge to the Pentagon’s award of a lucrative cloud computing contract to Microsoft Corp. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud company has filed a petition with the U.S.…

the latest

Consensys announces Skale as the first project to launch a token on its Activate platform

Apple and others may have avoided supply shortages as some Foxconn plants reopen in China

Slack stock rockets, then falls back, after erroneous report about IBM relationship

Amid staff tensions, Google’s HR chief steps down

US charges four members of Chinese military over 2017 Equifax data breach

Xerox ups HP takeover bid to $34B as it prepares March 2 tender offer

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