Worldwide server market revenue surges, finds IDC
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 26.4% year over year to $20.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2017 (4Q17).
Google first non-European company to become ‘Partner of Excellence’ for Technical University of Munich
Google and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have announced a long-term partnership on research and innovation in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics.
Fired Google engineer loses diversity memo challenge — Bloomberg
Google’s firing of an engineer over his controversial memo criticizing its diversity policies and “politically correct monoculture” didn’t violate U.S. labor law; Josh Eidelson of Bloomberg writes. Here is the link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/google-firing-of-damore-was-legal-u-s-labor-panel-lawyer-said
Google acquires IoT platform Xively
Google has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Xively, a division of LogMeIn.