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Microsoft Leads Group Pelting 'heavy Duty' Robot Maker With $10.5m

Sarcos swaps cash for 4 board spots... that's going to end well RotM  Sarcos Robotics has received $10.5m in investmen... Read more

Brexit Makes Life Harder For An Internet Of Things Startup

What's going to happen with the CE mark for 'leccy goods? At about the time when my startup will be wanting to sell to ... Read more

Investors Resist Larry Ellison's $9.3bn NetSuite Deal

'Unique' relationship with big shareholder questioned Influential investors are opposing NetSuite’s $9.3bn acquisitio... Read more

Little Boxes Made Of Ticky-tacky: What Dell's Record-busting $67bn EMC Deal Means

Engineered, er, systems for, you know, 'stuff' Dell’s acquisition of EMC is large by several measures: a $67bn purcha... Read more

Brexit? We Have Heard Of This, Says Dixons Carphone CEO

'No detectable impact' on consumer cash splash after vote to leave EU The UK's vote to leave the European Union has not... Read more

EMC/Dell Deal Respectfully Caps The Minicomputer Age

The legacies of Wang, Prime, DEC and Data General live on in mega-deal Over the years I've followed EMC, executives hav... Read more

My Dell Merger Wish List

I want geeks, the future and a pony Sysadmin Blog  It's merger day, it's merger day! Everyone please crank out a pile ... Read more

What's Dell Brewing The Day Before Its EMC Mega-slurp? A Latte Money? Oh, A Flat White

Hopefully new biz has better luck than current one Dell has reported near-flat revenues for its second quarter of the y... Read more

GE Runs Off $1.4bn, Hands It To Two 3D Printing Firms

Powdered metal is big business GE, the US industrial jack-of-all-trades, has pledged to invest a whopping $1.4bn in two... Read more

Intel Adds Vision To Its AI Vision With Computer Vision Firm Buyout

Eyes up Movidius, reaches for its wallet Intel is not just content to build the silicon brains that will power the Rise... Read more

HSBC: How Will We Verify Business Banking Customers? Selfies!

Nothing says business like... oh, hang on UK bank HSBC will allow business customers to open new bank accounts using se... Read more