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IBM to acquire software provider Turbonomic for over $1.5 billion
IBM has said it has agreed to acquire Turbonomic, a provider of software that helps companies monitor the performance of their business applications, the latest in a series of clou...
Top 25 SaaS businesses in 2021
We are often asked to compile lists as to what we deem the leading movers and shakers within the forever growing and expanding platform economy. One such request that has a recurri...
Software vendors would have to disclose breaches under new order
A planned executive order by President Joe Biden will require many software vendors to notify their federal government customers when the companies have a cybersecurity breach, acc...
Is England’s $32 billion COVID test and trace making difference?
A UK parliamentary committee has said England’s controversial $32 billion test and trace system has not made a significant impact on the COVID-19 pandemic and failed its key ...
Apple to set up $1.2 billion silicon design centre in Germany
Apple has said it would establish an EU-based silicon design centre in Munich, Germany, and invest more than 1 billion euros (approximately $1.2 billion) over the next three years ...
IBM revenue disappoints as software sales mark rare decline
IBM Corp missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue, hurt by a infrequent earnings decline in its software unit as customers shied away from longer-term prices as a result ...
Salesforce.com adapts its software for pandemic vaccine distribution
Salesforce.com has said it has adapted a number of its business applications to help healthcare organizations and government entities distribute vaccines for the novel coronavirus ...
Ubisoft announces staff departures after misconduct allegations
French video games maker Ubisoft has announced several staff departures after conducting a review in response to allegations of misconduct at the company, which earlier reports sai...
Arm to transfer two software businesses to SoftBank and focus on chips
British-based Arm Ltd plans to transfer two software businesses to its Japan-based parent, SoftBank Group Corp, in a strategic shift to focus on growing its core chip businesses, t...
Face recognition vendor vows new rules after wrongful arrest in US using its technology
Facial recognition vendor Rank One Computing said it would “add legal means” and research other ways to thwart misuse after its software was involved in the first known...
The 21st century lends the UK’s ancient parliament a hand
After 600 years of painstakingly slow evolution, the UK’s parliament took a leap into the future when the coronavirus pandemic struck, transforming its deeply traditional deb...
SAP revert to sole Chief Executive to handle the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic brought a six-month experiment in dual leadership at SAP to an abrupt end as the German software group named Christian Klein as its sole Chief Executive to pr...
Washington State signs facial recognition curbs into law; critics want ban
Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed the first US state law that sharply curbs law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology, while civil rights activist...
Microsoft granted licence to export ‘mass-market’ software to Huawei
Reuters – Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it had been granted a licence from the U.S. government to export software to Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.