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Diane Greene took $148.6M from Google and donated it all to charity
Google’s new parent company Alphabet Inc. revealed today that it paid a whopping $380.2 million to acquire Bebop Technologies, the startup most recently led by its new cloud boss and ex-Vmware Inc. founder Diane Greene. Out of that deal, Green raked in a cool $148.6 million in the form of 200,729 Alphabet shares valued at ...
Intel snaps up drone maker Ascending Technologies
Intel just can’t get enough of drones lately. Following on from last year’s $60 million investment in Hong Kong-based Yuneec International, the chip maker now says it’s going to acquire Germany’s Ascending Technologies GmbH for an undisclosed sum. Ascending Technologies builds a wide variety of drones that come programmed with special “auto-pilot” software and algorithms ...
Microsoft claims Windows 10 growth is faster than any previous version
Microsoft reckons Windows 10 is getting off to a flying start, and is now installed on upwards of 200 million devices. The boast comes just after Internet analytics firm Net Applications posted data showing Windows 10 is now the fourth-most popular operating system in the world, but is fast catching up with Windows 7, Windows ...
Sizing up the public cloud: Microsoft bets on the hybrid horse
One of a series of articles analyzing the strategies the largest public cloud vendors are using to court enterprise customers. Previous installments looked at Amazon Web Services, IBM, Google and Oracle. While many cite Amazon Web Services’ early start as one of the main reasons behind its emergence as the leader in the public cloud, the fact that ...
Windows 10 is rapidly gaining on Windows XP
Microsoft will be quietly pleased to learn that Windows 10 is inching closer to surpassing the venerable Windows XP operating system in terms of desktop market share. End of year stats from Internet analytics firm Net Applications reveal that Windows 10 has now accumulated a 9.96 percent share of the desktop operating system market, landing it ...
Yahoo looks to sell off Santa Clara development site amid ongoing restructuring efforts
Yahoo! Inc. has wrapped up a difficult year by announcing it’s looking to sell a 48.6-acre development site in Santa Clara it’s owned for several years. The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that the site, located near Levi’s Stadium, has been owned by Yahoo since 2006, back when the massive Web company was still growing. ...
Ex-Yandex employee convicted of trying to sell its search engine source code
A former employee of Russian Internet giant Yandex, the dominant search engine in that country, has been handed a two-year suspended jail sentence for stealing and trying to sell the source code for Yandex Search online. The Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that Dmitry Korobov stole the code before quitting the company and trying to find ...
Stupid Patent of the Month award goes to Microsoft
Microsoft has landed the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) revered “Stupid Patent of the Month” award for December after claiming it ‘invented’ the incredibly simple “slider bar” in its ongoing court battler with Canadian firm Corel Corp. The peculiar thing is that graphical slider bars have been around for eons, yet Microsoft was somehow granted a ...
LinkedIn reflects on its open-source successes in 2015
With 2015 coming to an end, LinkedIn Corp. has taken a look back at its year of using, developing and contributing to open-source software. Throughout the last year, LinkedIn made some of its biggest ever contributions to the open-source community by releasing ten new original projects, including Burrow, Goblin and Pinot, while pushing major updates ...
Debian founder Ian Murdock dies aged 42
Debian Linux creator Ian Murdock has passed away. The news of his passing was announced by Docker Inc. CEO Ben Golub in a blog post yesterday. Murdock, who was 42 years old, was best known for founding the Debian project, one of the most popular and widely used Linux distributions, and one of the first ...