Oracle opened a data centre in South Africa on Wednesday to provide local cloud services across Africa for the first time.
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Oracle is in talks to buy electronic medical records company Cerner in a deal that could be valued at $30-billion, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Oracle said on Monday that it will build a data centre in Johannesburg, firming up plans first announced two years ago.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company’s bid to acquire the US assets of ByteDance’s TikTok was the “strangest thing” he’s ever worked on.
Google has appointed former Oracle South Africa MD Niral Patel as head of its cloud operations in sub-Saharan Africa.
Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, has a net worth of more than $100-billion, making him the ninth person in the world to reach that lofty plateau.
The Pentagon has scrapped a $10-billion cloud computing contract awarded in 2019 to Microsoft after several years of wrangling between the government and some of the biggest US tech companies.
Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok owner ByteDance, told employees he will step down as CEO and be succeeded by human resources chief Liang Rubo, the company disclosed on Thursday.
Twitter temporarily suspended an Oracle executive from posting after he used the social network to publicise the e-mail address and Signal phone number of a journalist whose reporting he found objectionable.
Eskom has said it’s urgently seeking new providers of technical support after Oracle’s South African unit withdrew its services over a payment dispute.