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Foxconn to acquire Sharp in $5.6bn deal
Troubled Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp Corporation is set to be acquired by Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., better known as “Foxconn”, at the end of this month. Unlike similar multi-billion dollar acquisitions that are usually leaked to the press first, news of this particular deal came straight from the horse’s mouth. Foxconn CEO ...
Enthusiasm for OpenStack abounds, but old worries won’t go away
The vast majority of IT pros are keen to adopt OpenStack, but many are wary of the challenges in doing so, according to a new study sponsored by SUSE Linux. The report, which was carried out by U.K. research firm Dynamic Markets Ltd., warns that positive sentiment about OpenStack could be washed away by pitfalls ...
CoreOS launches an alternative to Docker with Rocket 1.0 release
CoreOS Inc. has been working away on an alternative container runtime system for more than a year, and yesterday it finally took the lid off of Rocket (rkt) 1.0. The new release is the only stable container runtime engine that meets the Open Container Initiative (OCI)’s container image specification and also its own App Container ...
Proposed Dell/EMC merger slapped with another lawsuit
An optimistic New York law firm is hoping to make a name for itself by blocking the proposed $67 billion mega-merger between Dell Inc. and EMC Corp. The GrantLawFirm, run by Lynda J. Grant, asserts that the Dell-EMC merger prospectus contains numerous “materially false and misleading statements and omissions of material fact”, in an amended ...
Google Search boss Amit Singhal retires, to be replaced by AI chief
In a sign of how important Google views artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the company has just announced that its AI chief John Giannandrea will take over as senior vice president of Search from the soon-to-retire Amit Singhal, who currently occupies the position. Singhal, who Re/Code describes as “an incredibly powerful figure” at Google, gave notice ...
Microsoft launches Azure IoT Hub out of beta
Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub, a cloud-based service for managing and communicating with Internet of Things devices, is set to become generally available later today. The Azure IoT Hub is a central aspect of Azure’s IoT Suite of products that can be used to develop and run applications built for connected devices. Launched in preview last ...
SDN is rapidly consuming the enterprise, survey finds
A rapid rise in production deployments means that software-defined networking (SDN) is moving beyond the ‘hype’ phase to take the enterprise “by storm” according to a new report. The survey, SDN Growth Takes IT Infrastructure by Storm, found that 39 percent of respondents have or plan to use SDN within their IT environments within the ...
Yahoo says “adieu” to 15 percent of its staff
Yahoo! Inc. yesterday confirmed rumors that it’s to layoff 15 percent of its workforce and close down some of its online services as part of a major new turnaround plan. The struggling Web giant plans to focus its efforts on Mail, Search and Tumblr, while shutting down digital magazines and services like Yahoo! Games and ...
Google’s cloud gets flashy, but no word on revenues
Google has gone and boosted the capacity of its cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform in what can only be interpreted as a bid to tempt more customers to try and its cloudy wares. Details of Google’s new cloud offerings were shared in this blog post from John Barrus, senior product manager for Google Cloud Platform, along ...
Google open-sources its Seesaw load-balancing software
Google is giving up yet another of its internal projects to the open-source world. Its latest contribution is called Seesaw, and it’s described as a load-balancing platform based on Linux built using Google’s Go programming language. It’s now available for anyone to download over at GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license. It’s fair to say ...