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IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B in cash and debt, taking a bigger leap into hybrid cloud
After rumours flew around this weekend, IBM today confirmed that it would acquire open source, cloud…
Microsoft closes its $7.5B purchase of code-sharing platform GitHub
After getting EU approval a week ago, today Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub, the ***-based code sharing and…
Real estate upstart Compass acquires part of shopping app Spring, including 20+ engineers and CTO
After raising $400 million in September in a round that valued it at $4.4 billion, the…
Customer service ‘behavioral pairing’ startup Afiniti quietly raised $130M at a $1.6B valuation
Artificial intelligence touches just about every aspect of the tech world these days, aiming to provide…
Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives
Lyft, the transportation on demand company that is heading to a $15 billion IPO in 2019, is…
Oracle acquires DataFox, a developer of ‘predictive intelligence as a service’ across millions of company records
Oracle today announced that it has made another acquisition, this time to enhance both the kind…
Addison Lee and Oxbotica ink self-driving deal, will offer autonomous car services in London by 2021
After undertaking a year-long investigation with Ford and four other mobility specialists on how to build…
TrackR is rebranding to Adero as it looks beyond small devices to track lost items
When TrackR raised $50 million from investors that included Amazon a year ago, the Santa Barbara startup made…
Amazon says it will add 1,000 more employees in the UK, bringing the total to 28,500, bucking the Brexit chill
A lot of uncertainty hangs over the UK as continues its slow march out of the…