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2026

January

• Ireland Is Trying to Get Back on the Data Center Bandwagon (Bloomberg)
• The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape (Washington Post)

2025

December

• Economics of Orbital vs Terrestrial Data Centers (Andrew McCalip)
• Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training (Reuters)
• Bezos and Musk Race to Bring Data Centers to Space (WSJ)
• Data Centers Are a ‘Gold Rush’ for Construction Workers (WSJ)

November

• A massive Cloudflare outage brought down X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector (The Verge)
• Databricks in Talks to Raise Capital at a Valuation Above $130 Billion (The Information)
• Now Tech Moguls Want to Build Data Centers in Outer Space (WSJ)
• How many ‘bragawatts’ have the hyperscalers announced so far? (FT)
• AI turned Google Cloud from also-ran into Alphabet’s growth driver (Reuters)
• OpenAI signs $38 billion compute deal with Amazon, partnering with cloud leader for first time (CNBC)

October

• Amazon cloud records 20% sales growth, topping estimates (CNBC)
• Amazon to Cut 14,000 Jobs as Jassy Looks to Reduce Bureaucracy (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots (NYTimes)
• Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more (The Verge)
• AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants (WSJ)
• Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says (Fortune)
• AI data centers are swallowing the world’s memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade (Tom’s Hardware)
• Satya Nadella appoints a new CEO to run Microsoft’s biggest businesses (The Verge)

September

• Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word (The Verge)
• HSBC claims quantum trading breakthrough (FT)
• OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers (Wired)
• Nordic Data Center Boom Fueled by Low Prices, Empty Land and Cool Weather (Bloomberg)
• Oracle, OpenAI Sign $300 Billion Cloud Deal (WSJ)
• Oracle Is the New Nvidia, for Better or Worse (WSJ)
• Microsoft mandates a return to office (The Verge)
• Databricks Crosses $4 Billion in Annual Revenue Rate (WSJ)
• Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million (CNBC)

August

• Meta Signs $10 Billion-Plus Cloud Deal With Google (The Information)

July

• Microsoft officially tops $4 trillion in market cap, joining Nvidia in exclusive club (CNBC)
• Starlink-powered ‘T-Satellite’ service is now live on T-Mobile (The Verge)
• Oracle to Supply OpenAI With 2 Million AI Chips for Data Centers (Bloomberg)
• Zuckerberg Says Meta Will Build Gigawatt-Size Data Centers (Bloomberg)
• Gmail’s new tab is made for unsubscribing from emails (The Verge)
• CoreWeave to Buy Core Scientific in $9 Billion Stock Deal (Bloomberg)
• US industrial groups pivot to data centres amid AI boom (FT)
• Microsoft laying off about 9,000 employees in latest round of cuts (CNBC)
• Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping (TechCrunch)

June

• Microsoft Planning Thousands More Job Cuts Aimed at Salespeople (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder (The Information)
• OpenAI and Microsoft Tensions Are Reaching a Boiling Point (WSJ)
• OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract (CNBC)
• Google Search Is Fading. The Whole Internet Is At Risk. (Barron’s)
• Google Offers Buyouts to Employees in Search and Ads, Other Units (The Information)
• Exclusive: OpenAI taps Google in unprecedented cloud deal despite AI rivalry, sources say (Reuters)
• How Morgan Stanley Tackled One of Coding’s Toughest Problems (WSJ)
• Gridcare thinks more than 100 GW of data center capacity is hiding in the grid (TechCrunch)

May

• Salesforce Agrees to Buy Informatica in Deal Worth $8 Billion (Bloomberg)
• At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work (NYTimes)
• Google moves to reassure EU cloud users amid concern over Trump threat (FT)
• Microsoft extends Office app support on Windows 10 to 2028 (The Verge)
• Amazon Says Operating Profits May Decline Amid Economic Uncertainty (NYTimes)

April

• Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites, taking on Starlink (Reuters)
• Alphabet shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue growth (CNBC)
• Google Chrome Worth ‘Upwards of $50 Billion,’ Browser Rival Says (Bloomberg)
• Google forcing some remote workers to come back 3 days a week or lose their jobs (CNBC)
• Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut Over 20% of Staff (Bloomberg)
• Google announces ‘Workspace Flows’ automation with Gems, audio in Docs, and more Gemini (9to5Google)
• Microsoft pauses $1bn data center plans in Licking County, Ohio (Data Center Dynamics)
• Google Maps is launching tools to help cities analyze infrastructure and traffic (The Verge)
• Shopify CEO says staffers need to prove jobs can’t be done by AI before asking for more headcount (CNBC)
• Google in Advanced Talks to Rent Nvidia AI Servers From CoreWeave (The Information)
• Amazon targets April 9 launch of first Kuiper internet satellites (Reuters)

March

• Microsoft Abandons Data Center Projects, TD Cowen Says (Bloomberg)
• Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud Giants (Wired)
• Google’s $32 billion deal for Wiz accelerated under Trump, sources say (Reuters)
• Google Strikes $32 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Wiz (WSJ)
• ServiceNow Nears Deal to Buy AI Assistant Maker Moveworks (Bloomberg)
• Google’s Sergey Brin Urges Workers to the Office ‘at Least’ Every Weekday (NYTimes)

February

• Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025 (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft is killing Skype after 14 years of neglect (Windows Central)
• Meta Discusses AI Data Center Project That Could Cost $200 Billion (The Information)
• Microsoft Quietly Launched a Free Ad-Supported Office App, and No One Noticed (Beebom)
• Microsoft Dropped Some AI Data Center Leases, TD Cowen Says (Bloomberg)
• Data Center Power Demand Almost Doubled in Virginia, Utility Says (Bloomberg)
• Meta Accounting Move on AI Servers to Boost Profit This Year (Bloomberg)

January

• Microsoft shares slide as cloud forecast, AI spending disappoint (Reuters)
• Comcast is rolling out ‘ultra-low lag’ tech that could fix the internet (The Verge)
• OpenAI, SoftBank Each Commit $19 Billion to Stargate Data Center Venture (The Information)
• OpenAI’s Stargate Deal Heralds Shift Away From Microsoft (WSJ)
• OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center project (TechCrunch)
• ‘Stargate’ Squares Some AI Circles (Spyglass)
• Google Workspace business users getting full Gemini experience, price increasing (9to5Google)
• LinkedIn adds free AI tools for job hunters and recruiters (TechCrunch)
• Databricks Inks $5 Billion of Private Credit, Bank Funding (Bloomberg)
• Automattic says it will reduce its contribution to WordPress core project to match WP Engine (TechCrunch)

2024

December

• Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts (FT)
• Microsoft acquires twice as many Nvidia AI chips as tech rivals (FT)
• Microsoft Unveils Zero-Water Data Centers to Reduce AI Climate Impac (Bloomberg)
• AWS announces Aurora DSQL, a new distributed SQL database that promises virtually unlimited scalability (TechCrunch)
• AWS opens physical outlets that let customers upload their data (TechCrunch)

November

• Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud (The Verge)
• Amazon Discussing New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in Anthropic (The Information)
• Google’s cloud outpaces rivals in third quarter as AI battle heats up (CNBC)

October

• Google Backs New Nuclear Plants to Power AI (WSJ)

September

• Oracle’s Missteps in Cloud Computing Are Paying Dividends in AI (WSJ)

August

• Microsoft finally officially confirms it’s killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon (Neowin)
• Exclusive: Chinese entities turn to Amazon cloud and its rivals to access high-end US chips, AI (Reuters)
• Microsoft Teams’ new single app for personal and work is now available (The Verge)
• Inside the Snowflake-Databricks Rivalry, and Why Both Fear Microsoft (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Beats On Earnings, Revenue Comes In Light Despite Strong Cloud Performance (Investor’s Business Daily)

July

• Google’s $23 Billion Snub From Wiz Will Sting Them Both (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft’s global sprawl comes under fire after historic outage (Washington Post)
• Blue Screens Everywhere Are Latest Tech Woe for Microsoft (WSJ)
• Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say (Reuters)
• Google Near $23 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Wiz (WSJ)
• Internet Browsers Are Getting a Makeover for the Workplace (WSJ)

June

• Google Translate is getting support for more than 110 new languages (The Verge)
• Google dropping continuous scroll in search results (Search Engine Land)
• iOS 18 could ‘sherlock’ $400M in app revenue (TechCrunch)
• How an upstart is using its Nvidia ties to challenge cloud computing giants (FT)
• Microsoft is laying off hundreds in its Azure cloud business, sources say (BusinessInsider)
• Microsoft cuts jobs in Azure, HoloLens, and other units in latest move to control costs (GeekWire)

May

• Alphabet Progressing in Talks to Buy HubSpot, Sources Say (Bloomberg)

April

• How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode (Maciej Pocwierz)
• Google Meet will let you transfer calls between web and phone with ‘Switch here’ (9to5Google)
• Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract (The Verge)
• Google Shows AI Model Is Enterprise-Ready After Gemini Mishaps (Bloomberg)
• Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model (FT)
• Microsoft and OpenAI Plot $100 Billion Stargate AI Supercomputer (The Information)

March

• Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom (Bloomberg)
• Canva Strikes Biggest Acquisition Yet in Chase to Take on Adobe (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff (The Information)
• Microsoft bets on start-ups to extend AI lead with hiring of Inflection chief (FT)
• Microsoft Teams is finally moving to a single app for personal and work (The Verge)

February

• Google One hits 100 million subscribers (The Verge)
• Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King (Wired)
• Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired (The Verge)
• The Browser Company Announces Act II for Arc: ‘The Browser That Browses For You’ (MacStories)

January

• Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different (The Verge)
• Arc’s new iPhone browser wants to be your search companion (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft Teams now supports 3D and VR meetings (The Verge)
• Microsoft Closes at Record, Ends Just Shy of $3 Trillion Value (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s Testy Developer Relationships Threaten to Hamper Vision Pro (Bloomberg)
• Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year (The Verge)
• Google’s Defense Against OpenAI Talent Grab: Special Stock (The Information)
• Bringing the full power of Copilot to more people and businesses (Microsoft)
• Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant (Semafor)
• Google Cuts Hundreds of Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions (NYTimes)
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise Near Deal to Buy Juniper Networks (WSJ)

2023

November

• Your Unused Gmail Account May Be Permanently Deleted Friday (WSJ)
• AWS enhances AI services with foundation model capabilities for improved performance (SiliconAngle)
• Google investigating missing files on Drive, caused by desktop app (9to5Google)
• AWS debuts Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client device for virtual desktop access (SiliconAngle)
• Salesforce Inks Deal to Sell on Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft officially launches Loop, its Notion competitor (The Verge)
• For Google Play, Dominating Android World Was ‘Existential’ (Bloomberg)
• Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle (The Register)
• Google AdSense moving to per-impression payments in 2024 (9to5Google)

October

• Microsoft is preparing to bring on Amazon as a customer of its 365 cloud tools in a $1 billion megadeal, according to an internal document (Insider)
• Microsoft-owned LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 employees — read the memo here (CNBC)
• Microsoft’s Activision Buy Extends Nadella’s Decade of Deals (WSJ)
• Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone (The Register)
• Microsoft eyes closing its giant Activision Blizzard deal next week (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s faster and redesigned Teams app now available for Windows and Mac (The Verge)
• Microsoft CEO Says Google’s Agreements With Apple Unfairly Harmed Bing (WSJ)
• Apple Has What It Needs to Launch Its Own Google Replacement (Bloomberg)

September

• Microsoft Discussed Selling Bing to Apple as Google Replacement (Bloomberg)
• Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024 (The Register)
• Amazon Is Poised to Hire Departing Microsoft Product Chief (Bloomberg)

August

• The new Google Chat borrows from Slack, Teams, Discord, and even ChatGPT (The Verge)
• Dropbox Ends Unlimited Cloud Storage Following Google Change (Bloomberg)
• SpaceX Working with Cloudflare to Speed Up Starlink Service (The Information)
• 3D printers printing without consent is a cautionary tale on cloud reliance (Ars Technica)
• Amazon’s Leader on Alexa, Echo and Other Devices Plans to Leave (WSJ)
• Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday (The Verge)
• Zoom can now train its A.I. using some customer data, according to updated terms (CNBC)
• Even Zoom Is Making People Return to the Office (NYTimes)
• Microsoft Teams adds spatial audio for more immersive conference calls (The Verge)

July

• Meta, Microsoft and Amazon team up on maps project to crack Apple-Google duopoly (CNBC)
• Microsoft will charge businesses $30 per user for its 365 AI Copilot (Engadget)
• Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription (CNBC)
• Here’s the new default font for Microsoft Outlook and Word: Aptos (CNBC)
• Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux (TechCrunch)

June

• Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (The Verge)

May

• Google will delete accounts, including Gmail & Photos, that haven’t logged on in 2 years (9to5Google)
• Google Cloud announces new A3 supercomputer VMs built to power LLMs (TechCrunch)

April

• Google’s cloud business turns profitable for the first time on record (CNBC)
• Slack launches Canvas, a docs app that lives inside your chat app (The Verge)
• Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers for ‘multi-year’ savings (CNBC)
• Apple to Cut Jobs in Some Corporate Retail Teams in First Known Layoffs (Bloomberg)

March

• Amazon’s post-Bezos experiment hasn’t gone exactly as planned (CNBC)
• Musk Delayed Paying Twitter’s Amazon Cloud Bill, Sparking Ad Threat (The Information)
• OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers (TechCrunch)

February

• GitHub’s Copilot for Business is now generally available (TechCrunch)
• Big Tech companies use cloud computing arms to pursue alliances with AI groups (FT)

January

• Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives Second Quarter Results (Microsoft Investor Relations)
• Elliott Management Takes Big Stake in Salesforce (WSJ)
• Microsoft to Add ChatGPT to Azure Cloud Services ‘Soon’ (Bloomberg)
• Salesforce to cut 10% of workforce in latest tech layoffs (Reuters)

2022

December

• Spotify’s grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project (TechCrunch)
• AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps (TechCrunch)

November

• Windows Subsystem for Linux generally available via Microsoft Store (BleepingComputer)
• Cloud computing: Microsoft and Nvidia are building a ‘massive’ AI supercomputer. Here’s why (ZDNet)
• Microsoft and Nvidia team up to build massive cloud AI supercomputer (SiliconRepublic)
• ‘Hey, GitHub!’ will let programmers code with just their voice (The Verge)
• The ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech (Wired)
• The Race to Be Figma for Devs: CodeSandbox vs. StackBlitz

October

• Microsoft Plunges on Forecast for Lackluster Azure Growth (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft Office will become Microsoft 365 in major brand overhaul (The Verge)
• Chips, canvases, and chats: Google Workspace’s plan to crush Office (The Verge)

September

• TripActions reportedly files to go public at $12 billion valuation (TechCrunch)
• Google is trying to reinvent search — by being more than a search engine (The Verge)
• Here are all of the new features and updates coming to Google Maps (TechCrunch)
• Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats (Protocol)
• Windows 11’s 2022 Update has something new for everyone (The Verge)
• Google is finally making its to-do list and reminder tools work together (The Verge)
• Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window (The Verge)
• The Adobe-Figma deal is historic for tech startups — if it goes through (Protocol)
• Why Figma is Worth $20B And Other Observations From The Adobe Acquisition (Hunter Walk)
• Adobe Tumbles After Agreeing to Buy Figma for About $20 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Canva moves beyond graphic design to launch a visual worksuite (TechCrunch)
• Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google (The Information)
• Extreme California heat knocks key Twitter data center offline (CNN)

August

• Xcode Cloud Subscriptions Now Available for Developers (MacRumors)
• Internal memo: Amazon Care to shut down, ‘not a complete enough offering’ for corporate customers (GeekWire)
• Microsoft is putting more ads in Outlook on iOS and Android (The Verge)
• Google search updates will prioritize real reviews over clickbait (The Verge)
• New Google Helpful Content Update To Change SEO Much Like Panda Did (Search Engine Roundtable)
• Apple Sets Return-to-Office Deadline of Sept. 5 After Covid Delays (Bloomberg)
• Cable Finally Loses Broadband Market Share in Q2 with First Negative Growth Quarter Ever (NextTV)
• Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes (Ars Technica)
• New – AWS Private 5G – Build Your Own Private Mobile Network
• SoftBank plans Vision Fund job cuts after record net loss (Reuters)
• Google Meet meets Duo Meet, with Meet in Duo but Duo isn’t going into Meet (The Verge)
• Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding environment (TechCrunch)

July

• Gmail’s new look is now rolling out to everyone (The Verge)
• Google Maps rolls out location sharing notifications, immersive views and better bike navigation (TechCrunch)
• Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet (CNET)
• Microsoft Cuts Many Open Job Listings in Weakening Economy (Bloomberg)
• Google Announces Hiring Pause (The Information)
• TextExpander, which lets users build shortcuts to speed up business communications, raises $41.4M, its first-ever funding (TechCrunch)
• Slack is increasing prices and changing the way its free plan works (TechCrunch)
• Stripe Cuts Internal Valuation by 28% (WSJ)
• Google Cloud launches its first Arm-based VMs (TechCrunch)
• Read the memo Google’s CEO sent employees about a hiring slowdown (The Verge)
• Live events startup Hopin, valued at $7.8 billion, is laying off 29% of staff in its second wave of job cuts in 2022 (Insider)

June

• Google Hangouts is shutting down in November (The Verge)
• Zendesk to be acquired by investor group for $10.2 billion (CNBC)
• Google News gets desktop redesign with focus on customization (9to5Google)
• Google Says It’s Time for Longtime Small-Business Users to Pay Up (NYTimes)
• Internet Explorer shutdown to cause Japan headaches ‘for months’ (NikkeiAsia)
• Microsoft to retire Internet Explorer browser and redirect users to Edge (The Guardian)
• Adobe plans to make Photoshop on the web free to everyone (The Verge)
• Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls (The Verge)

May

• Broadcom is acquiring VMware for $61 billion (The Verge)
• Snowflake stock falls as executives forecast a narrower margin than expected (CNBC)
• Microsoft’s Power Platform can now build websites and turn images into apps (XDA Developers)
• Microsoft Dev Box is a cloud-powered developer workstation (The Verge)
• Zoom pops 16% on first-quarter earnings beat and strong guidance (CNBC)
• Broadcom in Talks to Acquire Cloud Company VMware (Bloomberg)
• Satya Nadella details Microsoft plan for ‘significant additional investment’ in employee compensation (GeekWire)
• Facebook plans to reduce hiring as revenue growth slows and inflation concerns increase (CNBC)

April

• NSA Re-awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon (NextGov)
• Google launches Media CDN to compete on content delivery (TechCrunch)
• Zoom’s thumbs-up and raise-hand gesture recognition now works in its desktop apps (The Verge)
• Gartner forecasts global tech spending to hit $4.4 trillion this year, up 4% (Silicon Angle)
• Amazon’s Project Kuiper books up to 83 rockets to launch its internet-beaming satellites (The Verge)
• Microsoft brings Arm support to Azure virtual machines (ZDNet)

March

• SoftBank to slow investments following crash in tech holdings (FT)
• New Google Calendar feature takes the back-and-forth out of scheduling (Ars Technica)
• HP buys Poly for $3.3 billion to ride hybrid work boom (TechStartups)
• Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos (The Block)
• Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s Leadership Take Remote Work to the Extreme (WSJ)
• Zoom’s new virtual avatars let you show up to your next meeting as a dog (The Verge)
• Google I/O takes place May 11th and 12th, and it will be fully available online (The Verge)
• Microsoft says Windows 11 File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’ (The Verge)
• The rise of Canva, the $40 billion design juggernaut (Fast Company)

February

• You’ll need a Microsoft account to set up future versions of Windows 11 Pro (Ars Technica)
• Mozilla warns Chrome, Firefox ‘100’ user agents may break sites (BleepingComputer)
• Microsoft and Expedia announce next phases in office reopenings, finally emerging from pandemic (GeekWire)
• Viam closes $30 Million Series A funding round (The Robot Report)
• Jio Platforms invests $200 million in Google-backed Glance (TechCrunch)
• Flexport Is Silicon Valley’s Solution To The Supply Chain Mess—Why Do Insiders Hope It Sinks? (Forbes)
• Don’t forget Microsoft
• Inside Microsoft’s mixed reality mess, where confusion, rivalries, and canceled projects have roiled the company’s metaverse strategy (Insider)

January

• Fireblocks raises $550 million in Series E funding, now valued at $8 billion (The Block)
• Banks Tiptoe Toward Their Cloud-Based Future (NYTimes)
• Scoop: IBM tries to sell Watson Health again (Axios)

2021

December

• Google and Tech Rivals Tap Cash Reserves to Realize Cloud Ambitions (WSJ)
• Amazon is shutting down web ranking site Alexa.com (BleepingComputer)
• An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries (The Verge)
• AWS Outage Grinds Amazon Warehouses and Deliveries to a Halt (Motherboard)
• Microsoft Office prices going up 20% for some business clients unless they move from monthly to annual subscriptions (CNBC)
• Microsoft Teams Essentials is a new standalone version for small businesses (The Verge)

November

• Amazon launches AWS RoboRunner to support robotics apps (Venture Beat)
• Sweden’s Ericsson snaps up cloud firm Vonage in $6.2 bln deal (Reuters)
• Apple launches Apple Business Essentials: Device management, storage, onsite repairs, and more for one monthly price (9to5Mac)
• Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings (The Verge)
• Loop app from Microsoft keeps projects in sync across Microsoft 365 (VentureBeat)
• Zoom is testing showing ads to free users (The Verge)

October

• Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft beats revenue expectations, reporting 22% growth (CNBC)
• Amazon’s broadband satellite venture Kuiper teams up with Verizon to expand 5G coverage (The Verge)
• Microsoft now lets you test Android apps on Windows 11 (The Verge)
• A first look at Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Android apps support (The Verge)
• Emerson Plans to Merge Industrial-Software Businesses With AspenTech (WSJ)
• Google’s recruiting system is famously brutal. Many workers think it’s also failing. (Protocol)
• Zoom and Five9 abandon $14.7 billion acquisition (CNBC)
• How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum (The Pragmatic Engineer)

September

• Microsoft opens its Windows store up to third-party app stores (The Verge)
• Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince: ‘We’re aiming to be the fourth major public cloud
• Google is slashing the amount it keeps from sales on its cloud marketplace as pressure mounts on app stores (CNBC)
• Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1 Billion (WSJ)
• How Amazon’s cloud business generates billions in profit (CNBC)
• Microsoft acquires video-editing software start-up Clipchamp (CNBC)

August

• Scoop: Amazon quietly building live audio business (Axios)
• Microsoft will raise Office 365 business subscription prices in 2022 (CNBC)
• GE Appliances announces partnership with major cloud company to focus on data capabilities (Courier Journal)
• Salesforce introduces new Slack integrations post-acquisition (Venture Beat)
• Facebook, Amazon seek U.S. approval to operate undersea data cable (Reuters)
• NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon (Nextgov)
• Google is planning a new Silicon Valley campus with hardware hub, plans show (CNBC)
• New ‘Google Identity Services’ consolidate sign-in for 3rd-party apps, includes ‘One Tap’ (9to5Google)
• Superhuman Raises $75 Million For Its Waitlist-Only Email Productivity App (Forbes)
• Microsoft’s Windows 365 Cloud PC service will range from $20 to $162 per user per month (ZDNet)

July

• Element bolsters decentralized team messaging with $30M raise (VentureBeat)
• ‘Backup by Google One’ is Android’s new unified backup system (9to5Google)
• Zoom announces general availability of Zoom Apps and its new virtual events platform (ZDNet)
• Zoom is buying cloud contact center provider Five9 for $14.7 billion (CNBC)
• Amazon Acquires Facebook’s Satellite Internet Group (The Information)
• Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over (CNBC)

June

• Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform (TechCrunch)
• Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody (The Verge)
• Fastly claims single customer responsible for widespread internet outage (The Verge)
• Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (TechCrunch)
• Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8 Billion (WSJ)

May

• Snowflake relocates executive office from California to Bozeman, Montana, as company goes distributed (CNBC)
• Lightrun raises $23M for its debugging and observability platform (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft support for Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 coming later this year (ZDNet)
• Microsoft unveils developer-focused Teams, Outlook, and Search updates (VentureBeat)
• Microsoft Teams launches for friends and family with free all-day video calling (The Verge)
• GitHub now lets all developers upload videos to demo bugs and features (Venture Beat)

April

• Mighty wants to ‘make Chrome faster’ by streaming a browser from the cloud, starting on macOS (9to5 Google)
• Microsoft is changing the default Office font and wants your help to pick a new one (The Verge)
• Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room (Venture Beat)
• US satellite company Dish taps Amazon for 5G launch (FT)
• Software product planning platform Productboard raises $72M (Venture Beat)
• Why did Microsoft spend $19.7 billion to purchase Nuance? The answer may lie beyond health care. (Protocol)
• Nvidia unveils rental model for DGX Station A100 mini supercomputers (Venture Beat)
• Microsoft buys speech recognition firm Nuance in a $16 billion deal (CNBC)
• Google I/O 2021 will be virtual and free to attend from May 18-20 (9to5Google)
• Plaid raises $425M Series D from Altimeter as it charts a post-Visa future (TechCrunch)
• Turing Award Goes to Creators of Computer Programming Building Blocks (NYTimes)
• Amazon says it expects some employees to return to the office this summer, most will return in fall (CNBC)

March

• Apple officially announces virtual WWDC 2021 for June, iOS 15 and more expected (9to5Mac)
• Slack is getting new audio features (Protocol)
• Independent cloud provider DigitalOcean drops in Wall Street debut (CNBC)
• WhatsApp for work: Slack is turning into a full-on messaging app (Protocol)
• Amazon hires former executive Adam Selipsky to run AWS (CNBC)
• Microsoft, Google, and others join forces to improve browser compatibility (Neowin)
• Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft to start reopening headquarters on March 29th, with hybrid workplace focus (The Verge)
• Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market (Forbes)
• Excel Never Dies (Not Boring)
• Google links Android phones to Chromebooks with new Phone Hub feature (The Verge)
• China’s Tencent Becomes an Investment Powerhouse, Using Deals to Expand Its Empire (WSJ)
• Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos (MacRumors)
• Comcast: Pandemic drove peak internet traffic up 32% in 2020 (VentureBeat)
• Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open source low-code language (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft Mesh feels like the virtual future of Microsoft Teams meetings (The Verge)
• Microsoft to add new shared channels, encryption for calls, webinar features to Teams (ZDNet)

February

• Microsoft announces Office 2021, available for Windows and macOS later this year (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s new Office app now available on iPad (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s Big Win in Quantum Computing Was an ‘Error’ After All (Wired)
• Google Photos gets new paywalled editing features for Google One subscribers (The Verge)
• Salesforce declares the 9-to-5 workday dead, will let some employees work remotely from now on (The Verge)
• Microsoft launches Bulletins and Milestones apps for Teams (Windows Central)
• The Rust programming language just took a huge step forwards (ZDNet)
• Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2020 Retrospective (Platformonomics)
• Andy Jassy Twitter Thread (@ankithharathi)
• Email from Jeff Bezos to employees (Amazon)
• Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, transformed e-commerce company into a cloud computing giant (CNBC)
• Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition (Amazon Investor Relations)
• Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Results (Alphabet Investor Relations)
• Google Meet’s new ‘green room’ lets you do an audio / video pre-check (The Verge)
• Zoom adds virtual receptionists for when people start going back to the office (CNBC)
• Amazon Unveils Outdoorsy New HQ2, Renewing Its Commitment to Offices (WSJ)

January

• Microsoft profits jump 33 percent as pandemic continues shift to cloud computing (NYTimes)
• Google will turn some of its offices into COVID-19 vaccination sites (Engadget)
• Alphabet Pops Loon’s Balloons—but Won’t Call It a Failure (Wired)
• Amazon sends letter to President Biden, says it is ‘ready to assist’ with U.S. vaccination efforts (GeekWire)
• WeLink raises $185M to deliver high-bandwidth wireless internet to the home using 5G (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft’s new ‘One Outlook’ app leaks online (The Verge)
• Google, Alphabet employees seek to form a union (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft planning ‘sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows’ (The Verge)

2020

December

• Search engine start-ups try to take on Google (FT)
• Buoyed by Video Success, Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Services (The Information)
• Our Digital Lives Drive a Brick-and-Mortar Boom in Data Centers (NYTimes)
• Amazon launches group video and audio calling for Echo devices (The Verge)
• Substack launches an RSS reader to organize all your newsletter subscriptions (The Verge)
• Google is opening Fuchsia OS development to the public (9to5Google)
• Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely (TechCrunch)
• Exclaimer raises $133 million to help companies manage email signatures (VentureBeat)
• Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal (TechCrunch)
• Why Salesforce bought Slack (Divinations)
• Amazon to roll out tools to monitor factory workers and machines (FT)
• AWS brings the Mac mini to its cloud (TechCrunch)

November

• Salesforce deal to buy Slack expected to be announced Tuesday after market close (CNBC)
• Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021 (The Verge)
• Google warns Google Drive users: Use it, or lose your files (Mashable)
• AWS launches its next-gen GPU instances (TechCrunch)

October

• It’s Official- Marvell Acquiring Inphi For $10B That Boosts Its Cloud And 5G Opportunities (Forbes)
• Honeywell introduces quantum computing as a service with subscription offering (ZDNet)
• Microsoft Q1 Earnings Release
• SAP Shares Collapse After Lockdowns Force Cuts to Revenue (Bloomberg)
• Dropbox’s family plan offers a shared 2TB for $17 per month (Engadget)
• Microsoft launches Azure Space initiative; partners with SpaceX (ZDNet)
• Zoom launches its events platform and marketplace, brings apps to your calls (TechCrunch)
• Dropbox is the latest San Francisco tech company to make remote work permanent (CNBC)
• Dropbox goes Virtual First (Dropbox Blog)
• Twilio confirms it is buying Segment for $3.2B in an all-stock deal (TechCrunch)
• Comcast says gigabit downloads and uploads are now possible over cable (Ars Technica)
• G Suite is now Google Workspace (TechCrunch)
• AT&T kills DSL, leaves tens of millions of homes without fiber Internet (Ars Technica)
• Sourcegraph: Devs are managing 100x more code now than they did in 2010 (Ars Technica)

September

• Microsoft’s Bing Will Have Key Slot on Some New Android Phones (Bloomberg)
• Google Meet brings noise cancellation to Android and iOS, adds attendance reports for schools (9to5Google)
• Zoom’s earliest investors are betting millions on a better Zoom for schools (TechCrunch)
• LinkedIn launches Stories, plus Zoom, BlueJeans and Teams video integrations as part of wider redesign (TechCrunch)
• New Microsoft Office on the way for people who don’t want a subscription (Windows Central)
• Google Maps gets a COVID-19 layer (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft challenges Twilio with the launch of Azure Communications Services (TechCrunch)
• Azure Orbital launches Microsoft into cloud-based space race with Amazon (GeekWire)
• Microsoft Teams is getting virtual commutes and Headspace meditation (VentureBeat)
• Google launches a work-tracking tool and Airtable rival, Tables (TechCrunch)
• Swift language tools now available for Windows 10 (iMore)
• Microsoft pulls underwater data center back to the surface to assess benefits of deep-sea cloud (GeekWire)
• Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features (TechCrunch)
• Google binds no-code tools, API management and serverless computing into new development platform (Silicon Angle)
• Zoom shares soar after revenue more than quadruples from last year (CNBC)

August

• Zoom is working again, even if you’re not (The Verge)
• Zoom is coming to Google Nest, Amazon Echo, and Facebook Portal smart displays (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Amazon in talks to invest in cloud services company Rackspace, say sources (Reuters)
• Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You (Steve Yegge)
• Google gives Android TV developers instant apps, speech-to-text, and predictive typing (VentureBeat)
• TikTok to Spend $500 Million on First EU Data Center in Ireland (Bloomberg)
• TikTok announces first data center in Europe (TechCrunch)

July

• Google in Talks to Take Over More Search Tasks on Samsung Phones (Bloomberg)
• Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google (The Markup)
• Google to Keep Employees Home Until Summer 2021 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (WSJ)
• Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition (NYTimes)
• LinkedIn cuts 960 jobs as pandemic puts the brakes on corporate hiring (Reuters)
• Reliance Jio: World’s First ‘Super Operator’? (Counterpoint)
• Google invest $4.5 billion in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms (TechCrunch)
• Google Is in Advanced Talks to Invest $4 Billion in Jio Platforms (Bloomberg)
• Google Cloud steps up privacy, security with Confidential VMs and Assured Workloads (ZDNet)
• Google Cloud’s new BigQuery Omni will let developers query data in GCP, AWS and Azure (TechCrunch)
• Google to invest $10 billion in India (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft’s plan to make video calls less miserable (Axios)
• Palantir Technologies Files to Go Public (NYTimes)
• A Bird? A Plane? No, It’s a Google Balloon Beaming the Internet (NYTimes)
• Google Pushes Back U.S. Office Reopening Plan After Virus Surge (Bloomberg)

June

• Amazon launches cloud service to help non-coders build apps (CNBC)
• Zoom is no longer the best-performing work-from-home stock (CNBC)
• Japanese insurer Sompo investing $500 million in data analytics firm Palantir (Reuters)
• India’s Reliance Jio Platforms to sell $1.5 billion stake to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (TechCrunch)
• Unbounce raises $38.4M to build better landing pages with automation (TechCrunch)
• Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion (Protocol)
• SoftBank invests in Credit Suisse funds that finance its technology bets (FT)
• The most interesting man at Microsoft (Protocol)
• API development platform Postman nabs $150 million at a $2 billion valuation (VentureBeat)
• Scoop: Facebook establishing a venture arm to invest in startups (Axios)
• New York-Based Wahed Raises $25M For Islamic Investment Platform (Crunchbase News)
• Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job (GeekWire)
• Amazon licenses Slack for all employees, while Slack adopts AWS video-calling tech (CNBC)
• Exclusive: Amazon in talks to buy $2 billion stake in Indian telco Bharti Airtel - sources (Reuters)
• Zoom revenue grew 169% during the quarter, and the company doubled its revenue guidance for the year (CNBC)

May

• Google to begin reopening offices July 6, will let workers expense $1,000 for equipment while telecommuting (CNET)
• Why Facebook’s Plan to Tie Remote Pay to Location Will Probably Fail (Intelligencer)
• MARK ZUCKERBERG ON TAKING HIS MASSIVE WORKFORCE REMOTE (The Verge)
• Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley may face pay cuts (CNBC)
• IBM Is Latest Tech Giant to Cut Jobs in Midst of Pandemic (Bloomberg)
• Coinbase to Make Working From Home Permanent (The Information)
• Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10 (The Verge)
• Microsoft to adapt its cloud software for healthcare industry (Reuters)
• Deliver better experiences, insights, and care with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare (Microsoft)
• Microsoft’s new Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids (The Verge)
• Google Meet surpasses 50 million downloads on the Google Play Store (9to5Google)
• Microsoft’s VS Code 1.45 is out: GitHub integration plus JavaScript debugger update (ZDNet)
• Microsoft adds protection against Reply-All email storms in Office 365 (ZDNET)
• Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team (The Verge)
• Developers say Google’s Go is ‘most sought after’ programming language of 2020 (ZDNET)
• Microsoft confirms Windows 10X is coming to laptops amid big jump in Windows usage (The Verge)
• Google Meet starts rolling out in Gmail, continuing Google’s quest to unseat Zoom (The Verge)

April

• Alphabet earnings hit by ‘significant slowdown’ in ad sales, but revenue boosts stock (Marketwatch)
• Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody (The Verge)
• Google to cut marketing budgets by as much as half, directors warned of hiring freezes (CNBC)
• Tech companies pull back on hiring, flashing another grim warning sign for the U.S. economy (CNBC)
• Mire lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges (TechCrunch)
• Google’s fast-growing Meet video tool getting Zoom-like layout, Gmail link (Reuters)
• Verizon Buys Zoom Conferencing Rival BlueJeans (The Verge)
• Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020, CEO Tells Staff (Bloomberg)
• Github is now free for all teams (TechCrunch)
• Zoom will let paying customers pick which data center their calls are routed from (The Verge)
• New Microsoft Teams features: Video to show 9 people on screen with more coming soon (ZDNet)
• Google creates online unemployment application with state of New York (CNBC)
• Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat (The Verge)
• Atlassian’s tools helped build today’s tech. How’s it prepping for the future? (Protocol)
• MICROSOFT THINKS CORONAVIRUS WILL FOREVER CHANGE THE WAY WE WORK AND LEARN (The Verge)
• Microsoft is freezing hiring except in some unspecified ‘strategic areas’ (Business Insider)
• All Microsoft events will be digital-only until July 2021 (The Verge)
• Google’s video chat service adds 2 million users a day amid coronavirus (CNET)
• Don’t be surprised when ‘Hangouts Meet’ becomes ‘Google Meet’ (9to5Google)
• This tiny startup thinks it can do email better than Google (Protocol)
• Microsoft Edge is now 2nd most popular desktop browser, beats Firefox (BleepingComputer)
• Microsoft Edge is becoming the browser you didn’t know you needed (Ars Technica)
• Notion, Maker of Collaboration Software, Raises $50 Million (NYTimes)

March

• Microsoft announces Teams for consumers, Skype daily active users up 70% to 40 million (VentureBeat)
• Microsoft 365 bundles Office 365 with AI and cloud-powered features (VentureBeat)
• Comcast says voice and video calls have skyrocketed 212 percent during widespread self-isolation (The Verge)
• Coronavirus has led to a 775 percent increase in usage of Microsoft Azure cloud services (BetaNews)
• European mobile operators share data for coronavirus fight (Reuters)
• This is how you do that Zoom background thing everyone is talking about (CNET)
• Amazon AWS launches $20 million initiative to help fight the coronavirus (CNBC)
• Zoom conquered video chat — now it has even bigger plans (Protocol)
• Microsoft Teams passes 44 million daily active users, thanks in part to coronavirus (VentureBeat)
• EU warns of broadband strain as millions work from home (FT)
• Google Translate launches Transcribe for Android in 8 languages (VentureBeat)
• Slack unveils its biggest redesign yet (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s GitHub acquires npm to help JavaScript developers (WindowsCentral)
• Microsoft hits its goal of 1 billion devices running Windows 10 (The Verge)
• AT&T Suspends Broadband Data Caps During Coronavirus Crisis (Vice)
• Atlassian brings new automation tools to Jira Cloud (TechCrunch)
• How Google kneecapped Amazon’s smart TV efforts (Protocol)
• Scoop: Google’s G Suite cracks 2 billion users (Axios)
• Microsoft tells Bay Area and Puget Sound employees to work from home if possible as coronavirus spreads (CNBC)
• Microsoft, Cisco Integrate Their Cloud and IoT Services (Redmond Channel Partner)
• Google to switch completely over to mobile-first indexing by September 2020 (Search Engine Land)
• After attracting 800K web developers, Netlify wins $53M in funding (SiliconAngle)

February

• Plume raises $85 million to bring smarter Wi-Fi networks to more homes (VentureBeat)
• Microsoft’s new Office app arrives on iOS and Android with mobile-friendly features (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s new all-in-one Office app is now available for all, but tablets aren’t supported (Android Police)
• UK to spend $1.6 billion on the world’s fastest weather supercompute
• Astranis raises $90 million for its next-gen satellite broadband internet service (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate (The Verge)

January

• Google Developing New ‘Unified’ Communications App for Businesses (The Information)
• Google will shut down App Maker on January 19, 2021 (Venture Beat)
• Google’s search engine for scientists upgraded for better data scouring (The Verge)
• Microsoft launches Chromium Edge for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS (VentureBeat)
• Google acquires no-code app development platform AppSheet (VentureBeat)
• MICROSOFT BIDS FAREWELL TO WINDOWS 7 AND THE MILLIONS OF PCS THAT STILL RUN IT (The Verge)
• Free Windows 10 upgrade still works for many Windows 7 users. Here’s how to get it (CNET)
• (Potentially??) Free Windows 10 Upgrade Link
• Windows: Facing the New Decade (2010–2020) (Steven Sinofsky)

2019

December

• Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud (The Information)
• Microsoft Opens Edge Addons Store for Submissions (Winbuzzer)
• Google pauses Chrome 79 rollout on Android after bug wipes data in some apps (Android Police)
• Google Maps has now photographed 10 million miles in Street View (CNET)
• How Zoom Became the Best Web-Conferencing Product in the World in Less Than 10 Years (FYI)
• Google is bringing spam detection and verified business messaging to Messages (The Verge)
• Microsoft Teams is the first Office app for Linux (VentureBeat)
• Commentary: Andy Jassy aims to reinvent Amazon Web Services for the cloud’s next generation (Silicon Angle)
• Slack Raises Outlook After Winning New Corporate Customers (WSJ)
• With Outposts, Local Zones, and Verizon, AWS looks beyond the cloud (Mostly Cloudy)
• AWS Graviton2: What it means for Arm in the data center, cloud, enterprise, AWS (ZDNet)
• AWS launches its custom Inferentia inferencing chips (TechCrunch)

November

• Amazon cites ‘unmistakable bias’ in Microsoft’s military cloud contract win (CNBC)
• Microsoft’s new Office app for iOS and Android combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s Chromium Edge browser arrives January 15th (Engadget)
• Microsoft Teams is getting Outlook integration, tasks support, and more (The Verge)
• Microsoft Ignite 2019: Meet Project Cortex, Office 365 knowledge-management service (ZDNet)
• Microsoft is bringing Cortana to Outlook for iOS and Android with a new ‘masculine’ voice (The Verge)

October

• Alphabet Earnings Dented by Spending on Cloud Business (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft snags hotly contested $10 billion defense contract, beating out Amazon (CNBC)
• Microsoft Sales, Profit Top Estimates on Cloud; Azure Slows (Bloomberg)
• AT&T claims a weeks-long voicemail outage will be fixed with a single device update (The Verge)
• Microsoft introduces new open-source specs for developing cloud and edge applications (ZDNet)
• Twitter releases new Catalyst app for macOS Catalina (The Verge)
• Apple’s macOS Catalina update is coming today (The Verge)
• macOS Catalina Review (iMore)
• Microsoft makes Windows Virtual Desktop generally available globally (ZDNet)

September

• Slack Is a Hell of Our Own Making (NY Magazine)
• Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network for your stuff (TechCrunch)
• AMAZON CREATES A HUGE ALLIANCE TO DEMAND VOICE ASSISTANT COMPATIBILITY (The Verge)
• GitHub acquires code analysis tool Semmle (TechCrunch)
• Google Fi launches a more traditional unlimited plan (The Verge)
• Slack’s desktop apps get dark mode options (Engadget)
• Amazon’s Quantum Ledger Database is now generally available (Silicon Angle)

August

• Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020 (TechCrunch)
• Google and Dell team up on the first Chromebooks made for business (Engadget)
• Amazon opens its biggest global campus in India (Reuters)
• Python is eating the world: How one developer’s side project became the hottest programming language on the planet (ZDNet)
• Google Maps lets you pull up flight and hotel reservations on the go (CNET)
• Slack unveils new admin security controls (ITPro)
• WHEN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMES WITH A FEW CATCHE (Wired)

July

• Amazon’s cloud was at the heart of the big Capital One hack, even though it doesn’t seem to be at fault (Business Insider)
• How Google Photos joined the billion-user club (Fast Company)
• Google launches Gallery Go, a lightweight alternative to Google Photos (The Verge)
• The Real Cloud Wars: The $6 Billion Battle Over The Future Of Weather Forecasting (Forbes)

May

• The Most Valuable Company (for Now) Is Having a Nadellaissance (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• The productivity pit: how Slack is ruining work (ReCode)

April

• Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps: A Skift Deep Dive (Skift)
• Triplebyte raises $35M for its online coding test and credentialing service for hiring engineers (TechCrunch)
• Google Assistant now works with your G Suite work calendar (GeekWire)
• Slack Is Fetching High Prices in Private Stock Deals Ahead of Public Offering (Bloomberg)
• Zoom is poised to be one of the most richly valued tech companies after it goes public (CNBC)
• Google Cloud announces 7 open source partners, Seoul and Salt Lake City regions (VentureBeat)
• Google’s hybrid cloud platform is coming to AWS and Azure (TechCrunch)
• Google announces Cloud Run for open and portable serverless compute (VentureBeat)
• Microsoft launches first Chromium Edge builds for Windows 10 (VentureBeat)
• Google launches Gmail message scheduling and expands Smart Compose to more devices and languages (VentureBeat)

March

• The Next CEO of Stack Overflow (Stack Overflow Blog)
• Amazon’s Alexa for Business Blueprints lets employees make custom voice apps (VentureBeat)
• Google Podcasts in-episode search is coming, shows now being fully transcribed (Android Police)
• Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email (TechCrunch)
• The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2019 (RedMonk)
• Windows Virtual Desktop is now in public preview (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft launches previews of Windows Virtual Desktop and Defender ATP for Mac (VentureBeat)
• Microsoft warns Windows 7 users of looming end to security updates (TechCrunch)
• Dropbox device linking limits just got added for Basic accounts (SlashGear)
• Pi in the sky: Calculating a record-breaking 31.4 trillion digits of Archimedes’ constant on Google Cloud (Google Cloud Blog)

February

• Threads emerges from stealth with $10.5M from Sequoia for a new take on enabling work conversations (TechCrunch)
• As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bills (The Information)
• Containers may be leading to cloud computing cost overruns (ZDNet)
• Amazon opens up Alexa store for anyone to create and publish custom skills (The Verge)
• Apple teaming up with US Department of Veterans Affairs to bring digital health records to iPhone (9to5Mac)
• Skype Can Now Blur Your Background So You Don’t Have to Frantically Tidy Your Room (Gizmodo)
• Slack confidentially files to go public (CNBC)

January

• AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project (GeekWire)
• MongoDB Follow-up, AWS’ Incentives, Batteries: The iPhone’s Missing Miss (Stratechery)
• Microsoft counters Amazon again with big Walgreens partnership, aiming to reshape healthcare (GeekWire)
• Amazon Web Services calls MongoDB’s licensing bluff with DocumentDB, a new managed database (GeekWire)

2018

December

• Google will make it easier for people without accounts to collaborate on G Suite documents (TechCrunch)
• Google Details Major New York Expansion (WSJ)
• They scaled YouTube—now they’ll shared everyone with PlanetScale (TechCrunch)
• Dell’s long game is in hybrid and private clouds (TechCrunch)
• U.S. internet speeds rose nearly 40 percent this year (ReCode)
• Microsoft PowerPoint is getting real-time captions and subtitles for presentations (The Verge)

November

• How Amazon Web Services Reinvented the Internet and Became a Cash Cow (NYMag)
• Project Fi is now Google Fi, and it will work with iPhones and most Android devices (The Verge)
• Google Maps will let you chat with businesses (The Verge)
• SAP to buy Qualtrics for $8 billion (Axios)
• GitHub passes 100 million repositories (Venture Beat)
• VMWare acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes (TechCrunch)

October

• Gmail for iOS now lets you view all of your accounts in a single inbox (The Verge)
• IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion (CNBC)
• Forget Watson, the Red Hat acquisition may be the thing that saves IBM (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft Reports $29.1 Billion in Q1 2019 Revenue: Azure up 76%, Surface up 14%, and Windows up 3% (VentureBeat)
• Former Facebook engineer quit to build the programming tool he always wanted (CNBC)
• GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool (Github)
• The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It (WSJ)
• Microsoft begins re-releasing Windows 10 October update after fixing file deletion bug (The Verge)
• Google Drops Out of Pentagon’s $10 Billion Cloud Competition (Bloomberg)
• Norway’s petabyte plan: Store everything ever published in a 1,000-year archive (ZDNet)

September

• Google’s new activity cards will save your previous searches (Engadget)
• ‘NETFLIX FOR OPEN SOURCE’ WANTS DEVELOPERS TO GET PAID (Wired)
• Is This Article Worth Reading? Gmail’s Suggested Reply: ‘Haha, Thanks!’ (WSJ)
• Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce (TechCrunch)
• How Procore Built The Cloud’s Hottest Unicorn By Bringing Software To Low-Tech Construction Sites (Forbes)

August

• Google takes a step back from running the Kubernetes development infrastructure (TechCrunch)
• OneDrive can now automatically backup your PC’s documents, pictures, and desktop folders (The Verge)
• Cloudflare Stream makes it easy (and cheap) for developers to work with video (TNW)
• The 2018 Top Programming Languages (IEEE Spectrum)

July

• Goodbye HipChat: Slack and Atlassian Team Up on Chat Software (Bloomberg)
• Inside Google’s Shadow Workforce (Bloomberg)
• Alphabet surges to all-time high as Wall Street says internet giant’s big bets are ‘paying off’ (CNBC) (CNBC)
• Alphabet’s experimental investments in the future continue to cost it a fortune (The Verge)
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed a jaw-dropping fact about its translation app that shows how much money is still sitting on the table (Business Insider)
• Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies? (Motherboard)
• Amazon Foes Walmart and Microsoft Deepen Tech Partnership (WSJ)
• AT&T’s no-good week shows why it may regret its Google envy (Fast Company)
• Broadcom reaches deal to acquire CA Technologies for $18.9 billion in cash (CNBC)

June

• Google is retiring the AdWords & DoubleClick brands in a major rebranding aimed at simplification (Search Engine Land)
• Microsoft Just Put a Data Center on the Bottom of the Ocean (Motherboard)
• Microsoft’s GitHub takeover sends shockwaves through the open-source developer ecosystem (SiliconAngle)
• Microsoft confirms it’s acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion (The Verge)

May

• Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2 is designed for an office of the future (The Verge)
• Don’t Skype Me: How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against a Beloved Brand (Bloomberg)
• Nadella’s Microsoft (The Verge)
• Comcast won’t give new speed boost to Internet users who don’t buy TV service (Ars Technica)

April

• Exclusive: Chat is Google’s Next Big Fix for Android’s Messaging Mess (The Verge)