eWEEK Staff

Today’s topics include Salesforce acquiring MuleSoft to start its own integration cloud and IBM building a Power9 ecosystem to compete with Intel.  On March 20, Salesforce acquired infrastructure-as-a-service company MuleSoft for an estimated $6.5 billion. MuleSoft provides Anypoint, a platform for building application networks that connect enterprise applications, data and devices across any cloud and […]

Today’s topics include a Cambridge Analytica breach revealing Facebook’s weak data defenses, and Microsoft and BlackBerry teaming up on secure mobile Office productivity. Over Saint Patrick’s Day weekend, reports surfaced saying Facebook allowed data mining company Cambridge Analytica to gather the records of 50 million American users. The data loss occurred when Cambridge Analytica offered […]

Today’s topics include a former Qualcomm chairman seeking financing to buy the company and the exposure of multiple zero-day bugs in Apple Safari at Pwn2Own 2018. Paul Jacobs, the former executive chairman of Qualcomm’s board of directors whose father was a co-founder, is putting together a proposal to buy the company. This comes days after […]

Today’s topics include shareholder opposition to a rumored Dell and VMware reverse merger and Google Play Protect effectively improving Android security. Dell CEO Michael Dell and advisers are considering a reverse merger with VMware that could lead to taking Dell public again, according to recent reports. Dell is the majority owner of VMware, holding about […]

Today’s topics include the U.S. government accusing Russia of hacking the power grid and Google enhancing mobility security management in Chrome Enterprise. After a joint Department of Homeland Security and FBI analysis, the U.S. government warned on March 15 that Russian government hackers have taken direct aim at the U.S. power grid, as well as […]

Today’s topics include Google announcing new pricing for its Stackdriver cloud monitoring and logging service, and an SSD price drop spurring future notebook adoption. Google has introduced a simplified pricing model for its Stackdriver Monitoring and Logging service for monitoring cloud workloads. Highlights include a pay-as-you-go pricing option, volume-based pricing discounts and no-cost availability of […]

Today’s topics include President Trump blocking Broadcom’s acquisition of Qualcomm and Salesforce releasing Salesforce Essentials CRM for small businesses. As the latest demonstration of his administration’s increasingly protectionist business stance, U.S. President Donald Trump on March 12 blocked the contentious hostile takeover attempt by Broadcom of San Diego-based chipmaker Qualcomm. In his presidential order, Trump […]

Today’s topics include Google working on an alternative to Accelerated Mobile Pages and 5G leadership being at the center of a regulatory review of Broadcom’s bid for Qualcomm. Google is working on an alternative to its Accelerated Mobile Pages format requirement for websites that want prime placement for their content in mobile search results. AMP […]

Today’s topics include Intel and Micron developing durable solid-state storage for data centers and memcached DDoS attacks slowing down. Intel and Micron have developed a new type of storage for data centers called 3D Xpoint, which greatly improves the speed of storage by reducing processor wait times, improving latency, and saving and retrieving data much […]

Today’s topics include Google urging webmasters to replace untrusted Symantec digital certificates; Tenable launching its Lumin cyber-exposure benchmarking platform; worldwide server market revenue up 25 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017; and Druva and Wipro joining forces for data management as a service in mobile devices. Starting with the April 17 release of Google’s […]