The company will leverage its new computing platform as a way to "decarbonize" their electrical consumption Google is planning to shift workloads from data center to data center based on availability of renewable energy, the company says. The plan is based on a “carbon-intelligent computing ... Read more
3 years ago
French ministers agree that collaborating with the Americans may be a good thing for France. The French government has decreed that the country's most sensitive state and corporate data can be safely stored using the cloud computing technology developed by Alphabet's Google and Microsoft. This c... Read more
3 years ago
US investors have pumped €10 billion into European startups in 2021 alone Interest from US VCs in European tech companies has accelerated over the past two years, according to industry analysts. The amount of funding has reached an "all time high" in April, they say. We are no less than h... Read more
3 years ago
The Irish government has taken the Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) IT systems offline following a cyber attack. With this, the authority is trying to prevent further damage. With HSE systems down, it is expected that several hospitals will encounter problems, although the full extent of t... Read more
3 years ago
DarkSide, a hacker group that has been in the news several times in recent weeks because of ransomware attacks, says it is throwing in the towel. The group would no longer have access to its infrastructure. The Wall Street Journal reports this based on information from security research firms Fi... Read more
3 years ago
Toshiba Tec France Imaging Systems has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The company is a subsidiary of Toshiba that focuses on point-of-sale equipment and multifunction printers. Reuters reports that the attack was carried out by DarkSide, the same group of hackers who were behind the recen... Read more
3 years ago
Amazon does not have to pay back 250 million euros in tax to the European Union. This was ruled by a judge after the company was accused of paying too little tax through a financial construction in Luxembourg. In 2017, the European Commission ruled that Luxembourg had given an unfair tax advanta... Read more
3 years ago
Jamf, the software company specializing in Apple enterprise management, announced that it has signed an agreement to purchase Wandera, the zero-trust cloud security startup. The deal is valued at $400 million. Wandera was founded in 2012 and offers a unified cloud security solution. The solution... Read more
3 years ago
The activist investor company has nominated four director candidates, setting the scene for a showdown. Starboard Value LP is heating up its activism efforts at Box. The company announced this week that it has nominated four director candidates to the software company’s board of directors. ... Read more
3 years ago
It always seems that every other time you hear about a company achieving unicorn status, it is usually American. The EU is feeling the pressure to increase its presence in the world of tech. There are already plans underway to help boost the number of privately-owned European companies valued at mo... Read more
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