Accenture puts 19,000 staffers' heads on the chopping block 2.5% of workforce to go as sales and margin growth forecasts dip Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 32
D-Wave hello to another quantum pioneer warned over possible delisting Share price slides below $1 for 30 days straight, but company vows it will comply with NYSE regs again HPC23 Mar 2023 | 3
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened PaaS + IaaS23 Mar 2023 | 20
Watchdog: Broadcom buy of VMware may be bad for competition Server price hikes, rival hardware makers locked out ... haven't we been warning that for a while? Virtualization22 Mar 2023 | 9
Marvell Technology to open redundancy chute in face of industry slowdown Releasing 4% of workforce Systems22 Mar 2023 | 3
Acer pedals into e-cycle market with AI and big data in its basket Still tumbleweed for PC industry right now, but maybe folks will buy computers-on-bikes? Offbeat21 Mar 2023 | 17
Don't Be Evil, a gaggle of Googlers tell CEO Pichai amid mega layoffs Open letter to top brass signed by 1,400+ staff offers 5-point plan to improve redundancy process Off-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 26
Average Adobe staffer makes $170k a year, and 185 of them = 1 CEO Margins in software are enough to let you heat house, eat and buy a car Software20 Mar 2023 | 28
Adobe reckons it'll complete $20B Figma mega deal by year-end Ups financial forecasts on back of 'healthy' Q1, as more and more of world goes digital Software16 Mar 2023 | 4
UK spy agency: Don't feed LLMs with sensitive corporate data Oh gosh. Looks like that bot just spilled that you plan to fire 20k staffers in Q4 AI + ML15 Mar 2023 | 18
DXC Technology fined $8m by SEC for misleading investors Penalty paid for misclassifying tens of millions of dollars of costs, and for 'inadequate' controls missing the error Legal15 Mar 2023 | 1
Meta chops another 10,000 employees, closes 5,000 vacancies The Year of Efficiency may also include sending engineers back into the office Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 60
One third wiped off value of GitLab shares, Wall Street didn't like weaker outlook Investors nervous in same week that Silicon Valley Bank failed Devops14 Mar 2023 | 6
UK datacenter biz Ark goes on date with private equity suitors Government supplier said to be valued at $2.5B On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 1
IBM boss Arvind 'kerching' Krishna paid more than $16m in 2022 That's equivalent to 271 Big Blue workers Software10 Mar 2023 | 11
Brit chipmaker issues warning about inventory glut IQE says collapse in smartphone sales may wipe one-third off revenue in first half of 2023 Systems10 Mar 2023 | 7
WFH? Google Cloud's offices like a 'ghost town' before new policy Desk-sharing scheme adds more bums on seats, claims CEO PaaS + IaaS07 Mar 2023 | 41
DXC Technology says takeover talks terminated Admirer - said to be Baring Equity Asia - couldn't raise funds in current climate On-Prem07 Mar 2023 | 2
Dell, HPE grind out infrastructure sales but signal customer caution Server sector still challenging and storage sales cycles lengthening again On-Prem03 Mar 2023 | 2
BT opens 'voluntary job leavers' scheme for merging Enterprise and Global units Exclusive Something something £100M cost savings, something something staying competitive Networks03 Mar 2023 | 19
How many premium portable sales = HP CEO's 2022 compensation? 977 EliteBook x360 830 G6 Notebooks makes one Enrique Lores Personal Tech02 Mar 2023 | 5
PC price promos, flaky economy halve HP profits Job cutting plan expected to ease pressures later this year Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 |
UK antitrust watchdog provisionally clears Viasat's $7.3B buy of Inmarsat Entrance of SpaceX and others into airline Wi-Fi eases worries. Next stop: US and EU regulators Networks01 Mar 2023 | 1
Zoom: The sound of web chat biz's annual profits nosediving Fiscal 2023 'not without its challenges' as bottom line tumbles 76% Off-Prem28 Feb 2023 | 6
Microsoft pushed 'inaccurate' Windows 11 upgrade to unsupported devices Softening requirements to spur hardware sales? Nope, it was an error OSes27 Feb 2023 | 43
Uncle Sam to block Adobe absorption of Figma over monopoly fears Some investors and creative pros may cheer, but Photoshop giant's not done yet Applications24 Feb 2023 | 8
Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge From free massage therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers SaaS23 Feb 2023 | 57
How many HPE staff does it take to pay for one CEO? 271 Antonio Neri bags $17m+ in compensation in fiscal 2022 versus $64,000 average for the grunts On-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 28
Swedish network biz Ericsson chops 1,400 jobs at home More to come in other country ops? Company talks of admins 'sweating assets' and slowdown in 5G network builds Networks21 Feb 2023 | 10
Activist investor tells Airbus to end Atos Evidian talks now TCI Fund says buying stake in tech biz would be 'extremely inefficient use of shareholder funds' On-Prem21 Feb 2023 | 14
Do you rely on Microsoft Bing Search APIs? Price hike incoming Updated Depending on tier you use, rises of between 257% and 900% scheduled for May 1 Software20 Feb 2023 | 20
Amazon mandates return to office for 300,000 corporate staff 'Easier to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture when we’re in the office together' 3 days a week, says CEO Systems20 Feb 2023 | 151
Heads to roll at Lenovo amid 'severe downturn' in PC sales World's largest PC maker aims for $150m in cost controls, says never been a worse time to sell smart devices Personal Tech17 Feb 2023 | 34
Airbus in talks to buy 30% chunk of Atos's breakaway cybersecurity biz Well... that's one way to retain data sovereignty PaaS + IaaS16 Feb 2023 | 2
Adobe's $20b buy of Figma in crosshairs of Europe's antitrust cops If you could come this way and answer a few questions, say 16 countries Software15 Feb 2023 | 7
Lufthansa flights grounded by major IT snafu, 'construction work' blamed Resilience, we've heard of it Networks15 Feb 2023 | 28
IBM demands $500,000 from boss after she jumps ship Big bill from Big Blue for Accenture move Legal15 Feb 2023 | 19
Europe begins deeper probe into Viasat, Inmarsat merger How competitive will in-flight Wi-Fi be? Prices, quality among major headaches Networks14 Feb 2023 | 6
Google miscalculates severance payments for some Googlers Double counting share units led to mistake, 'we have corrected' the error, says ad search titan Off-Prem13 Feb 2023 | 6
Tech job bonfire rages on as Microsoft, GitLab and others join in Hundreds of thousands of techies looking for work, with ultimate cost to vendors not yet tallied On-Prem10 Feb 2023 | 14
Euronext says non, nein to US cloud providers services as rivals sign up Data sovereignty and compliance gives CEO pause for thought as Deutsche Börse AG jumps in bed with Google PaaS + IaaS10 Feb 2023 | 6
Another RAC staffer nabbed for storing, sharing car crash data Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Surely there won't be a third for roadside assistance biz Security03 Feb 2023 | 38
Super Bock says 'cyber' nasty 'disrupting computer services' Portugal's biggest exporter of beer warns of restrictions to supply chain Cyber-crime02 Feb 2023 | 12
OpenText completes Micro Focus buy, CEO says bye to 8% of workforce Here's your new desk, phone, security card, and an unpleasant missive for some Software01 Feb 2023 | 4
NetApp ditches 8% of staff as customers put away wallets 210,000+ people in IT now lost their job since start of 2022 Storage31 Jan 2023 | 6
Sweating the assets: Techies hold onto PCs, phones for longer than ever Discounts coming to clear inventory as device makers hit by inflation, interest rates, conflict in Ukraine Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 68
JD Sports admits intruder accessed 10 million customers' data No payment details exposed in breach, says retailer, but shoppers told to be 'vigilant about potential scams' Cyber-crime30 Jan 2023 | 25
WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage Command line not vetted using full qualification process, says Redmond. We think it involved chewing gum somewhere Networks30 Jan 2023 | 66
Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs TCI Fund run by Brit billionaire Chris Hohn also wants ad biz to slash salaries Off-Prem25 Jan 2023 | 53
Google's Pichai tells underlings exec bonuses will be clipped Staff in Q&A session yesterday to discuss 12,000 job cuts Off-Prem24 Jan 2023 | 12
Sorry seems to be tech execs' favorite word as DB player Aiven lays off 1 in 5 Finnish open source biz joins elite in correcting pandemic hiring frenzy Databases23 Jan 2023 | 3
Google dumps 12,000 employees after project probe You can work from home today – to process the news Off-Prem20 Jan 2023 | 55
Mailchimp 'fesses up to second digital burglary in five months Social engineering helped intruders break into customers' inboxes again Cyber-crime19 Jan 2023 | 11
Time to buy a phone as shops use discounts to clear out inventories More stock is NOT wanted as shipments plunge to lowest point in decade, Apple floats to top Personal Tech19 Jan 2023 | 52
Microsoft and community release scripts to help mitigate Defender mess Techies forced to mop up after update caused ASR rules to detect false positives, wiping icons and apps shortcuts Software16 Jan 2023 | 42
Microsoft Defender ASR rules strip icons, app shortcuts from Taskbar, Start Menu Happy Friday 13th sysadmins! Techies find workarounds but Redmond still 'investigating' Security13 Jan 2023 | 40
What goes up must come down: Logitech sales tumble amid PC slump CEO 'disappointed' by prelim top and bottom lines for latest full quarter Personal Tech12 Jan 2023 | 22
Microsoft to offer unlimited time off for US staff Incoming corporate policy may lead to stress and burnout for staff, reduced costs for Redmond Software12 Jan 2023 | 36
PC sales slump to pre-pandemic level in Q4. 'Boom' is over, says IDC Vendors lower prices to stimulate demand but inflation, fears of recession trump discounts Personal Tech11 Jan 2023 | 8
Second-hand and refurbished phone market takes flight amid inflation hike Who needs shiny new blowers when there's bills to pay and kids to feed? Answer: fewer and fewer folk Personal Tech10 Jan 2023 | 40