When Diane Greene first joined Google in late 2015, her first task was to assemble the company’s disparate and often wayward cloud projects and whip them into a real business. Sales, marketing and engineering divisions
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Last week, Amazon.com bought the Santa Monica, California-based smart home equipment maker Ring for an estimated $1bn in cash. Though filled with less import than the company’s $13.4bn acquisition of Whole Foods
During the dot-com-crazed 1990s, Cisco Systems became the world’s most valuable company. Widely expected to become the first company to hit a trillion-dollar capitalisation, it made it barely halfway there. When the
There’s Netflix, and then there’s everyone else in 2018. The stock is up more than 50% in the first two months of the year after shattering subscription-growth expectations. It’s market capitalisation has soared to $126bn
Amazon.com is embracing open-source software in the race to get its voice-based Alexa digital assistant into cars ahead of Google. Amazon engineers are working with Nuance Communications and Voicebox
Netflix’s surprise $300m deal to poach Ryan Murphy from 21st Century Fox shows just how easy it’s getting for rich tech companies to steal Hollywood’s top talent. Netflix, which released its first original
The war for the digital home is raging. Apple has finally followed Amazon, Google and Microsoft by launching a smart speaker with a voice-controlled artificial intelligence assistant. Yet even though the “HomePod” is another
Microsoft has topped analysts’ estimates for second quarter revenue, helped by brisk quarterly growth in its cloud and corporate-software businesses, while a tax charge caused the company to report a net loss. The software maker
In the social and political saga surrounding the question of network neutrality, what is often overlooked is the data war going on behind the scenes. The real fuel behind the debate is the enormous volume of data we generate
fter months of tinkering, Amazon.com has finally deemed its cashier-free convenience store ready for business. Amazon Go, as the outpost is called, opened its doors to the public on Monday. The US store is outfitted with