Google has agreed to buy Looker Data Sciences for $2.6-billion, expanding its offerings to help customers manage data in the cloud.

Each deal Google does is a reminder of its failures so far in the lucrative field of cloud computing and a potential warning sign to the software specialists that have thrived in the last decade.

Behind the cryptocurrency curtain hides a seedy underworld where these electronic tokens are being used to launder the proceeds of illegal gambling and facilitate illicit drugs, weapons and rhino horn transactions.

A mobile app used by police to track citizens shows how some of China’s biggest technology companies are linked to a mass surveillance system that is more sophisticated than previously known.

Google has confirmed it has appealed against a €1.5-billion fine issued by the European Commission for alleged illegal practices in search advertising.

Facebook bosses have lost control of the social network and is unlikely to regain it, a former Harvard classmate of Mark Zuckerberg has claimed.

Oracle announced on Wednesday that it has secured a cloud-computing alliance with Microsoft, an acknowledgment the database giant’s go-it-alone approach to the cloud wasn’t working.

An exodus of CEOs during the economic downturn is becoming alarming, particularly as there are apparently so few ready replacements.

Amazon has said it hopes to start delivering packages via drone “within months” as it unveiled its newest model with emphasis on safety.

EOH has appointed Xolani Mkhwanazi as chairman of the board with immediate effect, replacing co-founder Asher Bohbot, who stepped down at the end of February amid a major shake-up in corporate governance.