Just months before Microsoft is due to open two Azure data centres in South Africa, the world’s largest cloud provider, Amazon Web Services, has announced it will also open data centre facilities in the country.
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Microsoft posted another quarter of brisk revenue growth driven by cloud services, underscoring the company’s success in shifting its business toward Internet-based computing. The stock rose in extended trading.
Strong results from Microsoft, Tesla and Xilinx are helping to salve wounds after technology stocks led the Nasdaq 100 Stock Index to its biggest rout in seven years.
Paul Allen’s family office will live long and prosper. The billionaire’s vast holdings at Vulcan would take years to unravel, if that’s even what he wanted.
IBM is pressing deeper into its strategy of making cloud services more compatible with competitors, rather than trying to force customers into its own walled garden.
Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with fellow billionaire Bill Gates, has died. We have a look back at his extraordinary life.
Microsoft is now the fifth biggest PC manufacturer in the US, according to new data from Gartner.
This week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg bring you the TalkCentral podcast from the Rage expo taking place in Johannesburg this weekend.
Telecommunications carriers have long grumbled that they spend a fortune building the world’s data networks only to watch the US technology giants reap most of the benefits. Now they fear Silicon Valley will take away their customers, too.
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Vivaldi Technologies, the company behind the Vivaldi Web browser.