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Tech Moves: Expedia names CFO; former Tune CEO leaves Roku; Amazon and Microsoft departures

Expedia Group named Derek Andersen as its new CFO; Peter Hamilton left Roku for an upcoming CEO role; and more tech moves. Read More

Oracle cuts 491 jobs in Washington state as it embraces AI-led engineering

Oracle’s layoffs affect more than 230 software developers and an additional 48 software development employees in Washington and include workers in senior director and vice president roles. Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Starbucks CTO retires; Microsoft vet joins Oracle Cloud; Amazon hardware leader departs

Deb Hall Lefevre, the longtime tech exec who was most recently CTO at Starbucks, announced her retirement in a LinkedIn post. Read More

Microsoft and OpenAI make a deal: Reading between the lines of their secretive new agreement

Microsoft and OpenAI announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding Thursday afternoon, signaling that they’ve agreed in principle on changing and continuing one of the defining partnerships of the AI era. Read More

IBM to acquire Accelalpha, a Seattle-area firm that helps companies manage Oracle Cloud products

IBM announced Monday that it plans to acquire Accelalpha, a Bellevue, Wash.-based services provider that specializes in managing Oracle Cloud… Read More

Microsoft and Oracle, frenemies at last: What others can learn from their unlikely partnership

“All partnerships are tactical. There is no such thing as a strategic partnership.” That’s one of the lessons that business… Read More

Larry Ellison makes first-ever visit to Redmond to announce Oracle databases in Microsoft cloud

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison made a rare joint appearance this afternoon to announce… Read More

Full text: Microsoft’s multi-cloud vision would keep Amazon from running away with federal deals

A draft document circulated by Microsoft calls for the use of multiple cloud vendors as “the de facto standard for… Read More

Return of the JEDI: Pentagon’s multicloud sequel puts Microsoft and Amazon in leading roles

The U.S. Department of Defense is soliciting bids from multiple companies to upgrade its technology capabilities with the benefit of… Read More

No, Microsoft is not ‘still involved’ in TikTok discussions, despite President Trump’s statement

Microsoft is not back in the running to acquire TikTok, a source familiar with the situation said Friday morning, refuting… Read More

Report: TikTok chooses buyer for U.S. operations, deal could be announced Tuesday

After a tumultuous few weeks, the future of hit social video app TikTok in the United States could soon become… Read More

Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

Oracle wasn’t the first big tech company to offer public cloud computing infrastructure, or the second, or the third. When… Read More

Why this Oracle exec turned to academia to help climb the cloud career ladder

About the time he was in kindergarten, Andre Alfred started playing with the Tandy 1000 SX that his dad bought… Read More

Oracle’s Larry Ellison looks to one-up Amazon, offering full cloud inside customer data centers

Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed… Read More

What’s at stake for Amazon’s $36B cloud business at its big AWS re:Invent conference this week

Amazon Web Services will be able to tout some of the biggest numbers in the booming cloud industry at its… Read More

Oracle plans to hire 2,000 cloud workers; hundreds of open positions listed in Seattle

Oracle wants to ramp up its cloud business, and what better place to grow and pick off engineers than in… Read More

Oracle adds its digital assistant to Microsoft Teams, building off new cloud alliance between tech giants

Oracle and Microsoft’s cloud partnership took another step forward Tuesday. Oracle announced that its digital assistant can now be used… Read More

How Microsoft and Oracle became cloud buddies, and what’s next for their improbable partnership

Splashy partnerships between big tech companies can be hard to take seriously. Implementing them with success is much harder than… Read More

Oracle to appeal court ruling on Pentagon cloud contract as Microsoft and Amazon vie for $10B deal

Oracle’s JEDI fight isn’t over. The company will appeal a Court of Federal Claims ruling that rejected its attempt to… Read More

Microsoft takes big gulp of Java with jClarity acquisition, further boosting Azure’s open-source cred

Microsoft has acquired London-based JClarity, a London-based venture that has become a key player behind a popular open-source implementation of… Read More

Microsoft, Amazon, other tech giants forge ahead on healthcare data sharing pledge

This past August, executives from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce banded together to promote data sharing in healthcare.… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: The history of computers; tech’s role in clean energy policy; and more

— Computers, at least the ones somewhat resembling what we know today, have been around since the mid-20th Century. Seattle… Read More

Microsoft and Oracle will link two of their East Coast data centers, promising better performance for mutual customers

Oracle and Microsoft announced a partnership Tuesday that will allow mutual customers to run workloads within both Azure and Oracle’s… Read More

Report: Oracle lays off hundreds from its Seattle office as its cloud strategy remains grounded

Over the last few weeks and months, Oracle has laid off hundreds of employees at the Seattle office once viewed… Read More

Interview: Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on open source, AWS, and working with the military

New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has a lot of work to do. The company that basically invented the concept… Read More

Decision on the $10B JEDI cloud contract likely delayed after Pentagon agrees to review bias charges against Amazon employee

Those closely watching the battle for a ten-year $10-billion cloud computing contract on offer from the Department of Defense were… Read More

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