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Red Hat Acquires Irish Enterprise Mobile App Platform FeedHenry for $81.8M
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Red Hat has reached a deal to acquire Irish enterprise mobile application platform provider FeedHenry for approximately €63.5 million (or roughly $81.8M USD), the companies announced Thursday. The acquisition enables Red Hat to support mobile...
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Tier.Net Technologies Acquires Canadian Hosting Startup StablePages
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Web hosting company Tier.Net Technologies announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Canadian hosting startup StablePages. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed....
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Arvixe Partners with SiteWit to Help Customers Get Found Online
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Web hosting provider Arvixe announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with SiteWit to provide its customers with a software-as-a-service to help them find customers online through major search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing. Read More...
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Microsoft Considers German Data Center Amid US Attempt to Access EU-Held Data
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
On Sunday German news outlet Tagesspiegel reported that Microsoft is considering a German data center. ...
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Cisco Buys OpenStack Private Cloud Provider Metacloud
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Cisco has agreed to buy Pasadena, California-based Metacloud, a private OpenStack cloud provider, adding yet another facet to the Cisco cloud strategy. Metacloud employees will join Cisco's Cloud Infrastructure and Managed Services organization....
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SherWeb Relaunches Online Backup Service for Channel Partners
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Cloud services provider SherWeb has relaunched its online backup service, formerly known as SkyNox, on Wednesday, in an effort to make it more channel-friendly.
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Companies Consider Web Hosting in the Bahamas and Beyond to Avoid US Government
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Data hosted with a US-owned company but stored in a different country can still be accessed by the US government. This concern has led some businesses to forgo doing business with US-based service providers all together, and instead look for...
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Deutsche Telekom Denies Allegations of NSA, GCHQ Breach
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Documents provided to German newspaper Der Spiegel by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden show that the NSA and GCHQ breached Deutsche Telekom and local telecommunications provider Netcologne, the paper reported Sunday. Deutsche Telekom responded...
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Rackspace: We're Not Selling but We Do Have a New CEO
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Rackspace leadership announced they will not be selling the company. After reviewing a number of "alternatives," the company's management decided to press on with its strategy to pursue greater share of the managed cloud market and appointed...
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Google Releases Transparency Report, Calls on Government to Pass USA Freedom Act
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
A Google transparency report shows that demands for user information under US criminal investigations increased by 19 percent in the first half of 2014 to 31,698. Released on Monday, the report also indicates a more general trend of increasing...