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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