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Danny Sabbah joins two other IBM execs out the door
IBM has shed three of its top executives in the last month, including its cloud chief technology officer Danny Sabbah, who had spent the last 27 years at Big Blue. Fortune reports that Sabbah left IBM in late December. He first joined the company back in 1988, and held various roles over the years including ...
EMC’s Chad Sakac takes over at VCE as layoffs loom
EMC Corp. has unveiled veteran executive and former theCUBE guest Chad Sakac as the new president of VCE, its converged infrastructure business that combines compute, storage and networking into a single product. Sakac has been a stalwart of EMC for the past 11 years, most recently serving as its president of global systems engineering. He’ll ...
Amazon debuts ARM-based chips for the Internet of Things
Amazon.com, Inc., is making a play for a piece of the smart home market with the launch of a new line of semiconductors. The chips will be sold to smart home product designers building Wi-Fi router, Internet of Things devices and other smart home appliances. Amazon’s chips are built by its Israeli subsidiary Annapurna Labs, ...
Microsoft quietly launches R Server for Big Data analytics
Microsoft has launched a new advanced analytics platform based on the R programming language, less than a year after it acquired Revolution Analytics, the company that was previously the leading commercial provider of software and services for R. The new platform is called Microsoft R Server, and is compatible with Windows, Linux, Hadoop and Teradata ...
Indiegogo opens the door to Enterprise Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding site Indiegogo yesterday announced a new service aimed at helping big businesses to gather funds for their Research & Development projects, validate new products and offer cash prizes to people who can propose new ideas for them to work on. The new service is called “Enterprise Crowdfunding”, and will see the site expand beyond ...
Yahoo! investors agitate for a change of leadership
The so-called activist investment firm Starboard Value LP is agitating for a complete overhaul of the management at Yahoo! Inc., claiming that the venerable Web giant is leaking cash with no recovery in sight. The investors penned the following letter to Yahoo’s board of directors, expressing their extreme frustration at the last year’s financial performance. ...
Microsoft’s about to bid farewell to IE 8, 9 and 10
Microsoft will drop support for several iterations of its Internet Explorer browser from Tuesday next week. On January 12, Microsoft will introduce a new policy on browser support, which means that most older version of IE will not be updated anymore. It’s pretty complicated though, because the versions of IE which are no longer supported ...
Microsoft & Rambus team up to build quantum computing memory
Semiconductor and IP technology vendor Rambus Inc. has revealed it’s collaborating with Microsoft Research to explore future memory requirements for quantum computing. The company announced the new partnership just before the holidays, saying that its “promising but largely untested” technologies are slowly gaining traction as existing computer architectures run out of steam. Rambus said that ...
Snapchat said to be developing an API for advertising
Snapchat Inc. is reported to be holding discussions with various advertising agencies about building an API for its popular messenger app. If it did so, it would be the first time Snapchat has moved into ad tech, according to Digiday, which first broke the story. It adds that Snapchat’s API could be ready for testing ...
Bidders bide their time as Dell’s Perot Systems goes up for auction
Dell Inc.’s announcement that it wants to auction off Perot Systems, its healthcare IT consulting business, has led to a frenzy of speculation regarding prospective buyers, with at least four companies said to be interested. Dell let it be known late last year it was willing to hand over the keys to Perot Systems if buyers could match its ...