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Computing Platforms
Oracle opens data centre to provide cloud services across Africa
Oracle opened a data centre in South Africa to provide local cloud services across Africa for the first time, joining the likes of Microsoft and Amazon in setting up facilities in the southernmost country...
Application Platforms
Shopify enlists Microsoft, Oracle for business tools on app
Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify is teaming up with top cloud companies including Microsoft Corp and Oracle Corp to help merchants streamline their business operations.
Business owners on the platform can now access Enterprise Resource Planning...
Computing Platforms
US Supreme Court rebuffs Oracle challenge to Pentagon cloud contract
The US Supreme Court has put an end to Oracle Corp's challenge to how the Pentagon awarded the government's now-cancelled $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract.
The justices declined to hear Oracle's appeal of a...
Application Platforms
Hybrid work demand fuels Salesforce earnings forecast
Salesforce.com Inc has signalled the shift to hybrid work would keep demand for its cloud-based software strong in the third quarter, after trumping market expectations for earnings in the May-July period.
The business software maker's...
FinTech Platforms
Oracle unit partners with Everest to bring blockchain to banks worldwide
Oracle Financial Services Software, a unit of Oracle Corp, has teamed up with financial technology provider Everest to bring blockchain to banks worldwide to enhance their product offerings, Everest Chief Executive and co-founder Bob...
Computing Platforms
Cloud ramp up weighs on Oracle’s profit view, shares fall
Oracle Corp has forecast current-quarter profit below Wall Street estimates, as the business software maker ramps up investments in its cloud computing business to take on rivals including Microsoft and Amazon.com.
The company is planning...
Computing Platforms
Oracle launches Arm-based cloud computing service using Ampere chips
Oracle Corp has launched a cloud computing service powered by data center chips from Ampere Computing based on technology from Arm Ltd, the second major cloud company to offer an Arm-based service after Amazon.com's...
Computing Platforms
Israel signs cloud services deal with Amazon and Google
Israel's government has said it had signed a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google for a more than $1 billion project to provide cloud services for the country's public sector and military.
A...
App Stores
US Supreme Court backs Google over Oracle in copyright case
The US Supreme Court handed Google a major victory, ruling that its use of Oracle's software code to build the Android operating system that runs most of the world's smartphones did not violate federal...
Application Platforms
Oracle offers to move clients to cloud for free as it plays catch-up
Oracle Corp has announced it will migrate companies' most complicated computer programs to its cloud for free as it tries to catch a new wave of potential cloud-computing clients by aiming to save them...
App Stores
US asks courts to put TikTok appeals on hold pending review
The US Justice Department has asked two federal appeals courts to put on hold government appeals of lower court rulings blocking restrictions the Trump administration imposed on TikTok.
Under former President Trump, the Commerce Department...
App Stores
Second US judge blocks Commerce restrictions on TikTok
A second US judge late on Monday awarded a preliminary injunction blocking the US Commerce Department from imposing restrictions on Chinese-owned short video sharing app TikTok that would have effectively barred its use in...