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Facebook adds Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to its board

By Mike Wheatley Feb 3, 2020

Facebook Inc. today announced it has appointed Dropbox Inc. Chief Executive Officer Drew Houston to its board of directors. Houston (pictured), who is said to be a close personal friend of Facebook founder and…

Cloud

Microsoft Teams went offline for 3 hours this morning

By Mike Wheatley Feb 3, 2020

Microsoft Corp. was left with egg on its face today after an outage took its Microsoft Teams communications platform offline for around three hours this morning. Microsoft Teams, a messaging platform that offers chat, video meetings…

Cloud

Oracle expands its cloud footprint with 5 new regions

By Mike Wheatley Feb 3, 2020

Database giant Oracle Corp. revealed today that it has five new cloud regions up and running. They include a new region in Jeddah, which makes Oracle the first public cloud infrastructure company to offer…

Cloud

Google Cloud revenue jumps 53% – but not enough to offset Alphabet’s disappointing quarter

By Robert Hof Feb 3, 2020

Alphabet Inc. today for the first time revealed numbers for two of its fastest-growing units, showing Google Cloud and G Suite revenue collectively jumped 53%, to $2.61 billion, and YouTube revenue rose 31%, to…

Infra

Cisco’s Wendy Mars reveals how to cross the digital bridge

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Feb 3, 2020

Digital disruption is more than a buzzword. It’s a real problem. Even the most entrenched, complacent companies are realizing that offering customers mobile apps and online access is not a fad, but as a…

Security

HPE acquires zero-trust authentication startup Scytale to bolster security capabilities

By Maria Deutscher Feb 3, 2020

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said that it has acquired Scytale Inc., a startup that develops so-called zero-trust security software for protecting enterprise applications. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Scytale had…

Apps

After Apple, Amazon reportedly in talks with Goldman Sachs about fintech tie-up

By Maria Deutscher Feb 3, 2020

Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly in talks with Goldman Sachs about a partnership in which the bank would provide loans to merchants operating on the Amazon Marketplace. The loans would apparently be offered directly through…

Infra

Exiting storage array market, Western Digital sells off ActiveScale unit to Quantum

By Maria Deutscher Feb 3, 2020

Fresh off a better-than-expected earnings report that sent its shares rallying last week, Western Digital Corp. today announced that its ActiveScale object storage business will be acquired by Quantum Corp. in a deal set to…

Apps

Behind Cisco’s big applications bet: AppDynamics trains its sights on the entire tech stack

By Mark Albertson Feb 3, 2020

Some companies steadily build toward an initial public offering, while others stay private. Then there’s AppDynamics Inc. which called off its IPO practically at the last minute in 2017 when Cisco Systems Inc. dangled a…

Blockchain

The UAE’s Ministry of Health launches blockchain-based platform for healthcare data

By Kyt Dotson Feb 3, 2020

The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Health and Prevention today announced the launch of a new blockchain-based platform for healthcare data that collaborates with the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Dubai Healthcare City and other health…

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Facebook adds Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to its board

Google Cloud revenue jumps 53% – but not enough to offset Alphabet’s disappointing quarter

HPE acquires zero-trust authentication startup Scytale to bolster security capabilities

After Apple, Amazon reportedly in talks with Goldman Sachs about fintech tie-up

Exiting storage array market, Western Digital sells off ActiveScale unit to Quantum

The UAE’s Ministry of Health launches blockchain-based platform for healthcare data

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