Microsoft to negotiate with EU antitrust agencies over Salesforce complaint
Microsoft wants to address antitrust concerns raised by Salesforce workspace messaging app Slack in the European Union about its business practices. According to one person familiar with the situation, it went so far as to make a preliminary offer of concessions in order to assuage the EU competition enforcer’s concerns. The investigation was launched in […]
Microsoft will pay $2 billion for a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange
Microsoft is acquiring a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)as part of a 10-year deal in which London Stock Exchange will spend at least $2.8 billion on Microsoft’s cloud services. The stock purchase comes at a time when London is struggling to retain its position as Europe’s financial center. According to Bloomberg […]
Sewing Robots gradually becoming a reality
Sewing robots will soon arrive at your door, thanks to the efforts of Siemens AG and fashion designers Levi Strauss & Co. The Sewbo machine has been tested, praised, and even criticized across the board. Eugen Solowjow, who heads a project at a Siemens lab in San Francisco that has been working on automating apparel […]
Gartner’s Paul Delory identifies IT infrastructure trends for 2023
Gartner analyst Paul Delory has outlined specific forecasts as well as suggestions for where to concentrate in 2023 on trends that will have a massive effect on IT infrastructure. The identified trends are cloud infrastructure optimization and refactoring, which insinuates that infrastructure teams will eventually have the space and time to significantly improve current cloud […]
