PayPal buys Japanese buy-now-pay-later player Paidy for $2.7bn
It's hip to be competing with Square for space on retail counters
09 Sep 2021 | 1
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Microsoft fixes flaw that could leak data between users of Azure container services
No data went awry, Cosmos DB had a similar bug just two weeks ago
09 Sep 2021 | 3
Lenovo throws everything it's got into TruScale ITaaS – even its in-house AI
CPU cores, memory, and disk now PAYG if you want, and so are new hybrid offerings with VMware and Microsoft
08 Sep 2021 | 2
If your storage admin is a bit excitable today, be kind: 45TB LTO-9 tape media and drives just debuted
Fujifilm and HPE selling cartridges, Quantum selling drives, IBM tape libraries add support
08 Sep 2021 | 17
Amazon Japan to power itself with 450 little solar plants
22-megawatt rig to be built by Mitsubishi – apparently the first direct sale agreement of its sort in Japan
08 Sep 2021 | 3
Chinese prosecutors end investigation into rape claim against Alibaba manager
Accused served 15 days for 'molestation', says report
08 Sep 2021 | 6
'It takes a hell of a mental toll' – techies who lost work due to COVID share their stories
COVID Logfile III Some refined their CVs relentlessly. Others studied. Many wept, more than once. But most see an upside to their changed circumstances
07 Sep 2021 | 24
Kim Kardashian and Big Tech slapped for spruiking craptocurrency – and holding back useful crypto
Chair of UK Financial Conduct Authority says more regulation will help innovation to flourish
07 Sep 2021 | 18
Chinese e-commerce tycoon Richard Liu to step away from the spotlight
Rural revitalisation and long-term strategy await founder of mega e-tailer JD.com
07 Sep 2021 | 8
China blurs borders with Macau to advance chipmaking and AI plans
Special administrative region to share economic zone located on Chinese soil
07 Sep 2021 |
China's biggest chipmaker to build colossal chip factory
SMIC's 28nm colossus won't get China closer to self-sufficiency in stuff it buys from Intel and AMD, will help in other ways
06 Sep 2021 | 16
BRICS bloc deepens collaboration on e-commerce and selling services across borders
Good news for consumers, exporters, and outsourcers
06 Sep 2021 | 4
VMware shreds planned support for 'cheese grater' Mac Pro
Sorry, vAdmins, you probably don't have an excuse to buy Apple's $699 wheels
06 Sep 2021 | 27
Indonesian President's COVID jab cert leaks – authorities argue that's perfectly reasonable
It's not as if politicians' birthdays aren't well known, and they get jabbed on live TV
06 Sep 2021 | 2
Perseverance rover drilled a rock on Mars and probably snaffled a core sample
Now to enact humanity's cunning interplanetary kidnapping plan
03 Sep 2021 | 21
DRAM-as-cache is too expensive for even Facebook – Zuck now blending it with NVM SSD drives
Open-sources the tool it uses to make that happen and says Intel, Samsung, Open Compute, Western Digital and others are keen to play
03 Sep 2021 | 3
Busy day in China: Xi Jinping announces tech-sharing, services export push and a bourse for startups
Also banned telly shows from featuring men with an 'abnormal aesthetic' – basically the kind of chap you'd find in a boy band
03 Sep 2021 | 17
Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa test cross-border crypto-payments
Central banks sign up, even though none has a working digital currency yet
03 Sep 2021 | 8
Nutanix mandates vaccinations for in-office workers, doesn't mandate going to offices
Finishes FY 2021 with a bang and starts to re-open
02 Sep 2021 | 2
AWS Tokyo outage takes down banks, share traders, and telcos
Six-hour slump for Direct Connect caused by 'loss of networking devices' – we'll assume that means they broke, not that they fell behind a couch
02 Sep 2021 | 13
Arm says it has 'successful working relationship' with Chinese joint venture run by CEO who refuses to leave
Chip biz responds to analyst's 'semiconductor heist of the century' take
02 Sep 2021 | 22
Apple to let reader apps steer users towards out-of-App-Store purchasing following Japanese watchdog probe
Updated Regulator says it's happy book, music, newspaper programs can now whisper of the universe beyond the iOS walled garden
02 Sep 2021 | 8
World to make 1.37 billion smartphones in 2021 says IDC – about one for every six humans
Apple's growth outpaces Android's, and 5G shipments are surging despite hefty prices
01 Sep 2021 | 16
Cloudflare says Intel is not inside its next-gen servers – Ice Lake melted its energy budget
64-core AMD Epycs win again as upgrade delivers performance boost without slurping more 'leccy
01 Sep 2021 | 18
