Bit barn biz Cyxtera files for Chapter 11, hopes to bounce back after reboot Overseas subsidiaries unaffected, sale still on the table On-Prem06 Jun 2023 |
CEO sorry after telling staff to 'leave pity city' over bonuses Video Put the $26 million in the bag Bootnotes21 Apr 2023 | 88
Predict stocks, foresee public opinion, all kinda possible with ChatGPT-like models Boffins foretell LLMs infiltrating finance and politics with confidently held views AI + ML18 Apr 2023 | 12
MariaDB cuts jobs, repeats 'going concern' warning to stock market New CFO sees interesting in-tray at 20 percent year-on-year growth database company Databases18 Apr 2023 | 6
Tupperware looking less airtight than you'd think The party could be over soon Bootnotes11 Apr 2023 | 59
Publishers land killer punch on Internet Archive in book copyright court battle Analysis Dot-org vows to appeal after judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 49
How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 112
Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West This is what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket case Bootnotes09 Mar 2023 | 92
Disaster recovery blunder broke New York Stock Exchange this week The irony, it burns Devops26 Jan 2023 | 12
Uber, Lyft stock decimated as US aims to classify gig workers as staff About to get a lot trickier to justify contractor status for app-hired folks Personal Tech11 Oct 2022 | 73
Inflation, recession, pah! IT budgets set to rise in 2023 Turns out all it took was a business-disrupting global pandemic On-Prem27 Sep 2022 | 2
Soaring costs, inflation nurturing generation of 'quiet quitters' among under-30s My friends say I should act my wage. What's my wage again? Offbeat27 Sep 2022 | 164
Billionaire CEO tells Googlers 'we shouldn’t always equate fun with money' Updated A day in the G is like a day on the farm. Every meal a banquet. Every code checkout a parade. I love the G Bootnotes23 Sep 2022 | 42
Former Digital Realty datacenter reborn as urban farmstead No, the devil's lettuce isn't on the menu On-Prem12 Sep 2022 | 5
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs memorialized with online archive of emails, guff Comment Top tip: Skip the memos with cancer advice Bootnotes09 Sep 2022 | 23
DeFi venture OptiFi permanently locks up $661,000 of assets in code snafu Look who misunderstood the consequences a Solana close command Bootnotes02 Sep 2022 | 22
Micro Focus bought by Canada's OpenText for $6b Resting place of Novell – and one-time home to SUSE – finds new life in the Great White North Applications26 Aug 2022 | 15
UK hospitals lose millions after AI startup valuation collapses Updated Two trusts saw nearly $18 million go up in smoke when Sensyne Health was delisted from AIM AI + ML17 Aug 2022 | 71
Ninefold increase in startup layoffs in Q2 follows economic uncertainty Industry set to readjust to new realities of raising cash Legal16 Aug 2022 |
Obscure Asian fintech AMTD Digital becomes the new GameStop Social media suspected as shares surge 20,000 percent and company admits there's no good explanation Offbeat04 Aug 2022 | 16
VC wells drying up: Y Combinator's latest class shrinks 40% Time to take another gander at that pitch deck Software03 Aug 2022 | 2
Intel experiences another kind of meltdown 'We must and will do better' CEO pledges amid big losses, Optane axed, expectations slashed Systems29 Jul 2022 | 8
Martin Shkreli, out of prison for running a Ponzi scheme, now pushes Web3 thing His latest project, Druglike, most definitely isn't in the pharmaceutical business, from which he's been banned Bootnotes26 Jul 2022 | 34
IQE files against Tower Semiconductor claiming theft of trade secrets Updated Wafer company says it has 'significant reason' to believe Israeli chipmaker misappropriated IP Legal18 Jul 2022 |
UK government extends review of BT stake owned by French tycoon Patrick Drahi Altice bigwig now telco's largest shareholder but denies it's a takeover attempt Networks13 Jul 2022 | 9
Vendors are hiking prices up to 30 percent and claiming 'it's inflation' No it's not, says Gartner – it's a hardcore sales tactic you can easily counter Software07 Jul 2022 | 27
End of the road for biz living off free G Suite legacy edition Firms accustomed to freebies miffed that web giant's largess doesn't last SaaS21 Jun 2022 | 47
IoT biz Insteon goes silent, smart home gear plays dumb CEO removes mention of company from LinkedIn profile Edge + IoT19 Apr 2022 | 81
HSBC taps IBM to explore quantum for financial applications Interesting blue sky research aims to put the quant in quantum, although progress in sector isn't rapid Systems29 Mar 2022 | 5
Singapore and UK ink digital trade agreements at Future Tech Forum in London Such memorandums of understanding are all the rage Security01 Dec 2021 |
When criminals go corporate: Ransomware-as-a-service, bulk discounts and more Feature Pen-testers, rogue developers, dodgy hosters, etc. etc. Security11 Oct 2021 | 14
'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim Co-founder of mobile dev biz HeadSpin Manish Lachwani charged with fraud Applications26 Aug 2021 | 18
Microsoft, flush with cash, raises cloud office suite prices for businesses Microsoft 365, Office 365 to cost a little bit more from next March SaaS20 Aug 2021 | 56
Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither) Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource Devops02 Jun 2021 | 44
Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff Plus: Workers axed at '$4bn' Patreon, techies walk away from Basecamp Devops30 Apr 2021 | 22
JavaScript developers left in the dark after DroidScript software shut down by Google over ad fraud allegations Updated Creator suspects his ID was copied, web giant keeps quiet Applications27 Apr 2021 | 42
Founders of medical science upstart uBiome once likened to Theranos now indicted for, you guessed it, fraud Failed firm was full of it, Feds say Science22 Mar 2021 | 12
Bad: US govt says Chinese duo hacked, stole blueprints from just about everyone. Also bad: They extorted cash Including COVID-19 research, it is claimed. And they'll almost certainly never face an American court Security21 Jul 2020 | 27
WeWork sues SoftBank over 'AWOL' $3bn shares purchase – which included millions lined up for ousted CEO Neumann Japanese giant defends decision, says trendy office rental biz didn't meet its terms Science07 Apr 2020 | 19
Talk about ill-gotten gains: Coronavirus KOs Xerox's $30bn months-long hostile takeover bid of HP Inc Turmoil in the financial markets fells ambitious acquisition plan Personal Tech31 Mar 2020 | 17
Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons Updated Planned obsolescence strikes again Edge + IoT21 Jan 2020 | 278
Yeah, you better, you... you better tell us how you're misusing people's data, privacy, watchdog suggests to US telcos Cellular networks asked nicely to 'fess up or something might, maybe, happen some day Security27 Mar 2019 | 7
Another way to look at Amazon's counterfeit-busting Project Zero: Making merchants cough up protection money Analysis It's up to you to stop fake stuff going on sale in our cyber-bazaar, says multibillion-dollar biz Personal Tech28 Feb 2019 | 30
Sick of bandwidth gouging? Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, IBM have some good news Updated Bandwidth Alliance decides to throw us a bone Networks26 Sep 2018 | 6
Facebook tells users to report crappy customer service from advertisers Threatens to ban ads from businesses with low marks Personal Tech12 Jun 2018 | 19
Republican tax bill ready to rescue hard-up tech giants, struggling rich Procedural snafu delays vote until Wednesday – but here's basically what's in it On-Prem20 Dec 2017 | 111
Tech VCs sue Uncle Sam over President Trump's immigration chill We can't throw money at nerds if they can't get here, wail Silicon Valley's sugar daddies Legal02 Oct 2017 | 21
Bespoke vending machine biz Bodega AI trips cultural landmine Plan to dehumanize shopping taken as threat to beloved mom-and-pop stores On-Prem14 Sep 2017 | 19
Give staff privacy at work, Euro human rights court tells bosses Management must consider employees' rights in workplace policy Security06 Sep 2017 | 36
Brexit, schmexit: Christmas sales up 4 per cent at Dixons Carphone Firm defies forecasts despite warnings of 'uncertain times' On-Prem24 Jan 2017 | 12
Jeremy Hunt pockets £14m through sale of course search website Health Secretary makes a mint. Good for him, right? On-Prem16 Jan 2017 | 45
Korean cargo line bailout saves Christmas for tech companies HP and Samsung had goods stranded at sea by container line's bankruptcy Channel23 Sep 2016 | 6
Insure against a cyberwhat now? How the heck do we crunch those numbers? Pushing for creation of cyberattack database Channel24 May 2016 | 21
Wait... who broke that? Things you need to do to make your world diagnosable Crisis management: Audit, access – the whole shebang On-Prem24 Mar 2016 | 27
New data porting rules mustn't overburden businesses with costs, says UK minister Costliness shouldn't become 'barrier to entry' Channel16 Dec 2015 | 7
E.ON fined £7m for smart meter fail Business customers not hooked up, time to cough up Legal09 Nov 2015 | 72
Virgin Media boss urges UK watchdogs not to pick wrong BT battle Broadband World Forum Meanwhile, biz wing of telco to offer SMBs a broadband boost Legal20 Oct 2015 | 11
Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under Legacy systems tie you to unproductive legacy thinking and lead to stagnation On-Prem15 Oct 2015 | 81
Slashdot, SourceForge looking for new owners after parent dumps them on the web's doorstep Maybe a media and software company might like them better Legal28 Jul 2015 | 28
Daddy Dyson keeps it in the family and hoovers up son’s energy biz That must suck for anyone looking to launch a takeover On-Prem10 Apr 2015 | 36
IBM sued for talking up semiconductor business it couldn't give away Firm alleges investors didn't realize Big Blue would need to PAY to have its chips hauled off Channel03 Mar 2015 | 23
Mighty Blighty broadbanders beg: Let us lay cable in BT's, er, ducts Updated Complain to Ofcom that telco has 'effective monopoly' Networks24 Nov 2014 | 58