Google Buys Startup Biz, Slurps Up Its NLP Brains
Nah, not that neuro-bollocks – natural language processing Google have snapped up API.AI, a Silicon Valley startup sp... Read more
We Read Nutanix's Homework... And The Numbers Look Good
Pre-IPO HCI startup's promising biz growth foundation Analysis Nutanix has filed an amended S1 IPO form with the SEC ... Read more
Three Outsources Staff To Capita
Merry Christmas and a Happy... Oh Staff at Three are poised to receive a very early Christmas present - in the form of ... Read more
Non-big IT Vendors: Trying To Understand Where Startups Fit In Tech
Part one: Who are you calling an upstart? Sysadmin blog Are startups to be avoided? You'll get different answers depe... Read more
Mirantis Grabs Kubernetes Maestro To Orchestrate OpenStack Inversion
TCP Cloud brings AWS-industrial scale to microservices management Mirantis has bought a Kubernetes master to fulfil its... Read more
Elastic Acquires Predictive Analytics Firm
Buy Prelert, the world needs... um Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, has acquired behavioural analytics biz Pr... Read more
British Mobile AI 'bot Perfecter Stalked By Silicon Valley – Report
Weave.ai rumoured to be AI tech target British AI startup, Weave.ai, is the latest company rumoured to be snatched up b... Read more
Straight Outta Staines: Attenda Has Finally Been Sold... To US Biz Ensono
We called it The Staines-based managed service provider Attenda has been sold to Ensono, and we called it.… Read more
Microsoft Leads Group Pelting 'heavy Duty' Robot Maker With $10.5m
Sarcos swaps cash for 4 board spots... that's going to end well RotM Sarcos Robotics has received $10.5m in investmen... Read more
Brexit Makes Life Harder For An Internet Of Things Startup
What's going to happen with the CE mark for 'leccy goods? At about the time when my startup will be wanting to sell to ... Read more
Investors Resist Larry Ellison's $9.3bn NetSuite Deal
'Unique' relationship with big shareholder questioned Influential investors are opposing NetSuite’s $9.3bn acquisitio... Read more
Little Boxes Made Of Ticky-tacky: What Dell's Record-busting $67bn EMC Deal Means
Engineered, er, systems for, you know, 'stuff' Dell’s acquisition of EMC is large by several measures: a $67bn purcha... Read more
Brexit? We Have Heard Of This, Says Dixons Carphone CEO
'No detectable impact' on consumer cash splash after vote to leave EU The UK's vote to leave the European Union has not... Read more
EMC/Dell Deal Respectfully Caps The Minicomputer Age
The legacies of Wang, Prime, DEC and Data General live on in mega-deal Over the years I've followed EMC, executives hav... Read more
My Dell Merger Wish List
I want geeks, the future and a pony Sysadmin Blog It's merger day, it's merger day! Everyone please crank out a pile ... Read more