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VMware completes $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition
VMware is closing the year with a significant new weapon in its arsenal
(I restrained myself from using a &pivotal& pun here
You&re welcome.)
The acquisition — first announced in August — helps the company in its transformation from a pure virtual machine
supplier into a cloud native vendor that can manage infrastructure wherever it lives
It fits alongside the acquisitions of Heptio and Bitnami, two other deals that closed this year.
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Spotify to ‘pause& running political ads, citing lack of proper review
The company told us that starting early next year, it will stop
selling political ads: &At this point in time, we do not yet have the necessary level of robustness in our processes, systems and tools to
responsibly validate and review this content.&
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‘The Mandalorian& returns for Season 2 on Disney+ in fall 2020
The last episode of the first season of &The Mandalorian& went live on
Disney+ on Friday, and showrunner Jon Favreau wasted very little time confirming when we can expect season two of the smash hit to land:
2019 Africa Roundup: Jumia IPOs, China goes digital, Nigeria becomes fintech capital
The last 12 months served as a grande finale to 10
years that saw triple-digit increases in startup formation and VC on the continent
Here an overview of the 2019 market events that capped off a decade in African tech.
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Maxar is selling space robotics company MDA for around $765 million
Maxar goal in selling the business is to help alleviate some of its
The purchasing entity is a consortium of companies led by private investment firm Northern Private Capital, which will acquire the entirety
of MDA Canadian operations — responsible for the development of the Canadarm and Canadarm2 robotic manipulators used on the Space Shuttle
and the International Space Station, respectively.
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Cloud gaming is the future of game monetization, not gameplay
Lucas Matney argues that as is so often the case with the next big thing in
tech, cloud streaming is much more likely to become the next big feature of a more traditional platform, rather than the entire platform
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This week TechCrunch podcasts
Equity took the week off, but we kept Original Content going with a review of Netflix new fantasy show &The
