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HCL Foundation Announces Winners of Fifth Edition of HCL Grant (MESA)

HCL Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibilit arm of HCL Technologies, announced the recipients of the fifth edition of HCL Grant in the presence of Padma Bhushan, Mr. Kapil D... More

AWS Partners With Kenya’s Safaricom on Cloud, Consulting Services (TechCrunch)

Amazon Web Services has entered a partnership with Safaricom — Kenya’s largest telco, ISP and mobile payment provider — in a collaboration that could spell competition betwee... More

Ada, Zendesk Strengthen Customer Service Platform Integrations (D-CRM)

Ada, a provider of automated customer experience technology, has deepened its strategic partnership with Zendesk, a customer service and engagement platform provider. Ada's automat... More

EY: Employees Want Mental Health Benefits, Professional Development (AT)

Mental health benefits and professional development opportunities represent some of the most desired benefits in the workplace, according to a new EY U.S. survey. The "Better You" ... More

Auth0, Cognizant Partner for Authentication Transformation (Gigabit)

Cognizant is to partner with Auth0 in its efforts to assist companies in digital transformation. Cognizant was said to now be offering Auth0 as its primary authentication provider ... More

Microsoft to Open Azure Cloud Data Center Region in Spain (CRN)

Microsoft will open an Azure cloud data center region in Spain and leverage the infrastructure of Telefónica as part of an expanded partnership with the Spanish telecommunications... More

Akamai Acquires Customers, Select Intellectual Property From Instart (MESA)

Akamai has closed an asset purchase transaction with Palo Alto, California-based Instart to acquire customer contracts and intellectual property. Akamai intends to expeditiously tr... More

Google Cloud’s Newest Data Center Opens in Salt Lake City (TechCrunch)

Google Cloud announced today that its new data center in Salt Lake City has opened, making it the 22nd such center the company has opened to date. This Salt Lake City data center m... More

Facebook Cancels F8 Conference, Citing Coronavirus Concerns (TechCrunch)

Facebook has confirmed that it has canceled its annual F8 developers conference over growing concerns about the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. More specifically, the company says i... More

NAB 2020: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Set for Keynote Conversation With NAB President, CEO Gordon Smith (MESA)

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and National Association of Broadcasters President and CEO Gordon Smith will participate in a keynote conversation Monday, April... More

HCL Technologies Selected by UPM as Digital Transformation Partner (MESA)

HCL Technologies has been selected by forest industry company UPM to provide end-to-end transformational IT services. The multi-year deal is the second renewal of the longstanding ... More

Expert System Names Walt Mayo Group CEO (MESA)

Artificial intelligence specialist Expert System has named Walt Mayo as its group CEO, charging him with both scaling the company’s U.S. business and accelerating ongoing global ... More

Microsoft Azure Sphere Launches in General Availability (VentureBeat)

In April 2018, nearly two years ago, Microsoft announced Azure Sphere, a program to better secure the 41.6 billion internet for things (IoT) devices expected to be connected to the... More

Google Cloud’s Latest Purchase Targets Customers Who Want to Keep Mainframes, Have the Cloud Too (CIO Dive)

Google Cloud acquired Cornerstone Technology in an effort to help customers shift mainframe workloads to the cloud, the company announced. Central to Google Cloud's interest in Cor... More

Edgescan Helps Aon Clients With Robust Cybersecurity SaaS (MESA)

Edgescan is working with leading global professional services firm Aon, to support the cybersecurity posture of global clients. It enables Aon to leverage edgescan's Software-as-a-... More

5G IoT Revenue Predicted to Reach $8B by 2025 (Gigabit)

New research has suggested revenue from 5G internet of things connections will reach $8bn by 2025, up from a relatively paltry $525mn in the current year.... More

Facebook Blocks Valuable Ad Data in Privacy Update to its Marketing Partner Program (AdAge)

Facebook is shutting down a source of data that shared “device-level” information about people’s phones to advertisers for purposes of targeting and measuring ad campaigns. F... More

EU Introduces AI Strategy to Build ‘Ecosystem of Trust’ (VentureBeat)

The European Commission unveiled a sweeping set of proposals that it hopes will establish the region as a leader in artificial intelligence by focusing on trust and transparency. T... More

NAB 2020: 4K 4Charity Run Series at NAB Adds New 8K Course Option (MESA)

4K 4Charity organizers have announced that registration is open for the official run of the 2020 National Association Broadcasters (NAB) Show. In addition to the popular 4K (2.49-m... More

Google Cloud Opens Seoul Region (TechCrunch)

Google Cloud announced that its new Seoul region, its first in Korea, is now open for business. The region, which it first talked about last April, will feature three availability ... More

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