National Landing in pictures: A walk through Amazon's new headquarters location

Photos show the untapped potential of National Landing. But can Amazon, local developers and officials stave off the negative consequences Seattle incurred?

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 28, 2018

Uber hit with $1.2M in fines for 2016 data breach

Regulators from the U.K. and the Netherlands penalized Uber, which tried to cover up the breach that compromised 57 million worldwide accounts.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 27, 2018

Google Cloud CEO stepping down; Oracle veteran to succeed

After three years as chief executive, Diane Greene will leave her role to focus on empowering women leaders in STEM.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 19, 2018

Docker, MuleSoft deal nods to legacy environment needs

MuleSoft and Docker provide options for customers to containerize legacy environments or rebuild their environment in a containerized architecture.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 16, 2018

What you need to know about Amazon HQs in New York City, Virginia

Navigating the legal agreements of $5 billion in investments — and requests for helipads. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 13, 2018

Tech talent pool lures Amazon HQ2, HQ3 to New York and Virginia

After a year of speculation, secrecy and teasing, the retail and cloud giant announced New York City and Northern Virginia will be homes to its newest headquarters. 

By Samantha Schwartz , Alex Hickey • Nov. 13, 2018

TBM software company Apptio set for $1.9B acquisition

The deal with Vista Equity Partners includes a month-long "go-shop" period during which Apptio's board can solicit and evaluate alternative acquisition proposals.

By Alex Hickey • Nov. 12, 2018

SAP buys Qualtrics for $8B, giving global scale to experience management data

Qualtrics expects to exceed $400 million in revenue for FY18, with a growth rate greater than 40% year-over-year. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 12, 2018

Reports: Amazon to split HQ2 between NYC, Northern Virginia

The split reportedly comes with Amazon wanting to make it easier to recruit talent in the technology sector.

By Chris Teale • Nov. 6, 2018

3 cities in 'late-stage' talks to win Amazon HQ2

Reports suggest the winning location could end up in Dallas, New York or Arlington County, Virginia — but Amazon remains tight-lipped.

By Kristin Musulin • Nov. 5, 2018

Intel says it met 'full representation' in its diversity goals, but what does that mean?

The company's announcement points to a wider industry struggle: Most talent pipelines are not structured to encourage the growth of minorities in tech.

By Valerie Bolden-Barrett , Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 2, 2018

Red Hat acquisition is hybrid, open source power play for IBM, but it must tread carefully

Is a Red Hat acquisition enough to make IBM one of the "cool kids" of open source and the "Switzerland" of cloud?

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 30, 2018

Migration lessons learned: Even Amazon can face mishaps with new tools

The biggest mistake companies make when contemplating a database migration is concluding all databases are generic.

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 30, 2018

IBM's $34B Red Hat acquisition takes over hybrid cloud market

Big Blue will remain committed to Red Hat's open source model, helping scale its technology to global enterprises.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 29, 2018

Cloud infrastructure services up on the year, down on the quarter

Quarterly cloud infrastructure revenue surpassed $17 billion, including IaaS, PaaS and hosted private cloud services, according to Synergy Research Group. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 26, 2018

Mega cybersecurity coalition courts Walmart, Microsoft for next-generation defense

The coalition is looking to integrate cybersecurity from product design, using it as an active part of the business rather than a defense mechanism.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 23, 2018

Can CIOs solve the technical vacuum on many boards of directors?

CIOs, CTOs and directors with other IT backgrounds constitute a very slim piece of board leadership pies around the world. And no one likes a small piece of pie. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 19, 2018

Nike CIO departs to join pharma giant Merck

While retail and pharma have a lot in common, Jim Scholefield will be moving into a company where supply chain discipline is tighter.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 19, 2018

Microsoft had to 'eat its own dog food' to modernize its portfolio

The company had to adopt at scale the technologies, software and services it sold its customers. 

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 18, 2018

Facebook attackers accessed personal data of 29M users in breach

The breach of tens of millions of users' personal information is a huge bump in the road for a company that has been grappling with user trust and privacy issues this year.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 12, 2018

Google+ resurrected from consumer ashes for the enterprise

Google is emerging as a competitor in the enterprise communication space, setting itself up for the G Suite version of Microsoft Teams. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 12, 2018

Microsoft makes 60K patents open source to protect Linux

Open sourcing so many patents will free the company and Linux from entanglement in lawsuits with patent trolls. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 11, 2018

Report: AWS inks $1B in deals, expanding existing partnerships with Symantec, SAP

Amazon's biggest competitor in the cloud infrastructure and platforms market, Microsoft, reportedly vied for the Symantec deal as well, based off a memo reviewed by Bloomberg. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 11, 2018

Cloudera, Hortonworks merger creates Hadoop leader amid framework's decline

Some hold a less rosy view of the merger given the declining prevalence of the Hadoop framework, an open-source software for data storage, orchestration and computing. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 5, 2018

At Black Girls Code, students learn to make jobs in tech, not get one

Kimberly Bryant started the nonprofit in 2011 after realizing that coding classes looked the same for her daughter as they did for her 20 years earlier: few girls, and even fewer girls of color.

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 4, 2018