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Accenture Acquires French Google Cloud AI Consulting Firm
As Google Cloud Next opened today in San Francisco, Accenture announced its intent to acquire Cirruseo, a French cloud consulting firm that specializes in Google Cloud intelligence services. The companies did not share the terms of the deal....
Google Acquires Cloud Migration Platform Alooma
Google today announced its intention to acquire Alooma, a company that allows enterprises to combine all of their data sources into services like Google’s BigQuery, Amazon’s Redshift, Snowflake and Azure. The promise...
Amazon No Longer Building New York Headquarters Due to Backlash
Amazon announced Thursday it will not build its second headquarters in New York City amid growing opposition to the project. The online retailer faced opposition from some New York politicians, who were unhappy with the nearly $3 billion in tax incentives Amazon was...
How Yelp Saves 2x more with AWS Spot Fleet on Apache Mesos
The following is a summary of the presentation “How Yelp.com Runs on Apache Mesos in AWS Spot Fleet” delivered by Kyle Anderson, Site Reliability Engineer from Yelp at MesosCon Los Angeles. Anderson helps build and run “PaaSTA”, Yelp’s open source...
Apple, IBM heads join White House panel on workforce automation
Apple CEO Tim Cook and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty will be among the company executives who will be joining a Trump administration advisory board set to deal with the effects of artificial intelligence and automation on the workforce. According to Reuters, the panel...
Google will have offices and data centers in 24 states by the end of 2019
Google is still closely associated with California to many people (and to a lesser degree New York), but it's determined to change that reputation. The company is launching a $13 billion expansion in 2019 that will give it a total US footprint of 24 states,...