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In latest $10B JEDI contract twist, Defense secretary recuses himself

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019 NewsEditorAmazon, IBM, Microsoft, oracle, pentagon, Pentagon JEDI contract, Safra Catz

The JEDI drama never stops. The $10 billion, decade-long cloud contract has produced a series of twists and turns since the project was announced in 2018. These include everything from court challenges to the president getting involved to accusations of bias and conflict of interest. It has had all this and more. Today, in the latest plot twist, the Secretary of Defense Mark Esper recused himself from the selection process because one of his kids works at a company that was involved earlier in the process. Several reports name his…

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Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds

July 3, 2019July 3, 2019 NewsEditorartificial intelligence, Cloud Computing, cloud infrastructure, computing, finance, manufacturing, Microsoft, oracle, oracle cloud, oracle corporation, Oracle Database, Scott Guthrie, supply chain

Microsoft and Oracle announced a new alliance today that will see the two companies directly connect their clouds over a direct network connection so that their users can then move workloads and data seamlessly between the two. This alliance goes a bit beyond just basic direct connectivity and also includes identity interoperability. This kind of alliance is relatively unusual between what are essentially competing clouds, but while Oracle wants to be seen as a major player in this space, it also realizes that it isn’t likely to get to the…

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Announcing TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise this September in San Francisco

June 12, 2019June 12, 2019 NewsEditorartificial intelligence, business, cloud applications, Companies, GitHub, IBM, machine learning, marketo, Microsoft, mulesoft, oracle, oracle corporation, Qualtrics, red hat, Salesforce, salesforce.com, sap, Startup company, TC Sessions: Enterprise

Last year alone, the and included IBM’s acquiring Red Hat for $34 billion, SAP paying $8 billion for Qualtrics, Microsoft landing GitHub for $7.5 billion, Salesforce acquiring MuleSoft for $6.5 billion and Adobe grabbing Marketo for $4.75 billion. No startup category has made more VCs and founders wildly wealthy, and none has seen more mighty companies rise faster or fall harder. That technology and business thrill ride makes enterprise a category TechCrunch has long wanted to tackle head on. We’ll enlist proven enterprise-focused VCs to reveal where they are directing…

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In venture capital, its still the age of the unicorn

November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 NewsEditorAileen Lee, Amazon, China, Cisco, CrunchBase, economy, entrepreneurship, finance, Greylock Partners, investment, Meituan, Microsoft, Money, oracle, Private Equity, sequoia capital, Softbank, Software, Startup company, Technology, Tesla, Uber, unicorn, unicorn club, United States, Venture Capital, WeWork, Xiaomi

Howie Xu At the time, the piece defined a new breed of startup — the $1 billion privately held company. When Lee did her first count, there were 39 “unicorns”; an improbable, but not impossible number.. Today, the once-scarce unicorn has become a global herd with 376 companies on the roster and counting. But the proliferation of unicorns begs raises certain questions. Is this new breed of unicorn artificially created? Could these magical companies see their valuations slip and fall out of the herd? Does this indicate an irrational exuberance…

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Silicon Valley law firm Gunderson Dettmers legal advice for Pied Piper

May 28, 2017May 28, 2017 NewsEditorDoorDash, Gunderson Dettmer, Ivan Gavira, oracle, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley HBO

2017 Global Venture Capital League Tables and closed more than 1,200 VC financing deals last year so what advice does it have for Richard Hendricks character in HBOs Silicon Valley right now? I dont want to give away any spoilers for those who havent watched the latest episode but I did sit down with Gunderson partner