Google’s Monday homepage doodle pays tribute to Intel co-founder Robert Noyce, who is credited with co-inventing the integrated circuit—the technology behind the chips powering the gadgets that are now part of our everyday lives. TODAY, SILICON VALLEY salutes its very own mayor. And rarely does Google’s tribute “Doodle” strike quite so close to home. Google’s homepage [...]
MasterCard Inc. (MA), the world’s second- largest payments network, named Ann Cairns president of international markets and Walt Macnee vice chairman. Cairns will start on August 22 from Alvarez & Marsal Inc., a consulting company, and report to Chief Executive Officer Ajay Banga, Purchase, New York-based MasterCard said today in a statement. She will manage [...]
Microsoft office 365,the next generation in cloud productivity is coming in June to beat the market of Google’s free office suite. It has been in its beta stage in several countries for some time now and Microsoft has attracted some 100,000 customers to try the Office 365 beta program. Microsoft partner, Jon Roskill confirmed the [...]
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)’s Web Services cloud- computing unit was used by hackers in last month’s attack against Sony Corp. (6758)’s online entertainment systems. Hackers using an alias signed up to rent a server through Amazon’s EC2 service and launched the attack from there, said the person, who requested anonymity because the information is confidential. [...]
Microsoft makes its most-expensive deal ever for a company–Skype–that has had few profits despite millions of customers. And Microsoft is paying a pricey 10 times revenue for it, or $8.5 billion in total. In January, Skype’s owners were said to be seeking a $5-6 billion deal. Microsoft sees Skype supporting devices like Xbox, Kinect and [...]
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