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Everyone uses applications on a daily basis. Building, integrating and running them requires quite a bit from people and systems. Application development has recently undergone a huge metamorphosis. In particular, the emergence of cloud-native application development has caused fundamental changes. AI, especially GenAI, has also caused a major shift. Finally, the world’s largest OS, Microsoft Windows, also makes regular appearances on this page. You will stay up to date on all relevant application developments here.
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Meta pays $2 billion for Chinese AI startup Manus
Meta has announced that it is acquiring the AI platform Manus. With this acquisition, Meta aims to accelerate...
ServiceNow’s 2025 acquisition wave worries Wall Street investors
ServiceNow has spent at least $12 billion on acquisitions and investments this year. The biggest deal ever wa...
ServiceNow extends CEO Bill McDermott’s contract until 2030
ServiceNow has extended the contract of CEO and Chairman Bill McDermott (photo) until the end of 2030. In doi...
AWS Storage Gateway now supports Nutanix AHV
Amazon Web Services is adding support for the Nutanix AHV hypervisor within its Storage Gateway service. This...
Expert Talks
Why specialized LLMs are the future of generative AI
ChatGPT and the other GenAI chatbots that have taken the tech world by storm are all trained on massive datas...
Mozilla tries to quell turmoil, promises AI ‘kill switch’
Update December 19: Following controversy over future AI features, Mozilla promises that Firefox will allow a...
Global outage at Snowflake caused by incompatible update
Snowflake users worldwide experienced serious problems this week after a recent update introduced errors in t...
IFS aims for automated warehouses with acquisition of Softeon
IFS's ambition is to make warehouse management a largely automated process. To achieve this, the company is a...