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Wednesday, 12 August, 2020

Technology sector
Cisco sales warning raises spectre of broad IT spending decline
Chief executive points to US failure to mount more effective battle against coronavirus
Wednesday, 5 August, 2020

Bharti Airtel and Amazon team up for India cloud market push
Deal comes a year after Reliance Jio signed similar partnership with Microsoft’s Azure platform
Friday, 24 July, 2020

Inside BusinessRichard Waters
Slack now has to prove Microsoft is behaving badly
It may be harder than it looks for messaging app to take on $1.6tn software giant
Thursday, 23 July, 2020

Microsoft Corp
Microsoft sales boosted by both work and play from home
Gaming unit was a standout in forecast-beating earnings, along with cloud business
Monday, 20 July, 2020

Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
Big banks look to the cloud to accelerate digital shift
Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and HSBC sign partnership deals in tech awakening
Sunday, 19 July, 2020

FT SeriesCompanies prospering in the pandemic
Cloud business reaps rewards of the work-from-home revolution
Digital infrastructure providers including Microsoft and Amazon have seen stock market values soar during lockdown
Wednesday, 15 July, 2020

Hong Kong
US tech groups resist Hong Kong’s customer data access plan
Google, Amazon and Microsoft on collision course with regulator over financial data held in cloud platforms
Thursday, 9 July, 2020

LexSAP SE
SAP: bigger is better Premium
Pandemic disruption and trade tension will spur demand for supply chain management software
Thursday, 9 July, 2020

Technology sector
Google rolls back on Chinese cloud ambitions
‘Isolated Region’ project abandoned as other data-sensitive options considered
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Wednesday, 1 July, 2020

IPOs
Data group Dun & Bradstreet set for $1.7bn listing
Shares in group priced above range in return to stock market two years after going private
Wednesday, 24 June, 2020

Google LLC
Google considers alternatives to Hong Kong for undersea cable
Plans for Pacific Light Cable network shift after US government warning
Wednesday, 10 June, 2020

Lex
Snowflake/IPOs: cloud chasers Premium
Ability to work across multiple storage systems is a good selling point
Tuesday, 9 June, 2020

IPOs
Snowflake eyes $20bn valuation in IPO
Move to list by cloud database start-up comes on renewed demand for tech companies
Wednesday, 20 May, 2020

US and Chinese cloud companies vie for dominance in south-east Asia
Google, Amazon and Microsoft challenge Alibaba and Huawei in fastest-growing cloud market
Wednesday, 29 April, 2020

Microsoft Corp
Microsoft growth accelerates as pandemic boosts cloud business
Satya Nadella says 2 years’ worth of digital transformation has occurred in 2 months
Tuesday, 21 April, 2020

Lex
Cloud: silver linings Premium
Where Alibaba directs its $28bn spending will be crucial
Monday, 20 April, 2020

Alibaba
Alibaba pledges to spend $28bn on cloud computing
Chinese ecommerce ramps up investment to capitalise on coronavirus-fuelled boom
Wednesday, 15 April, 2020

AnalysisTechnology sector
Software stocks emerge as downturn winners
Shares in cloud groups prove more resilient than overall market — and some have risen to new records
Tuesday, 3 March, 2020

Technology sector
Africa’s cloud computing boom creates data gold rush
Continent’s capacity has doubled in the past three years as global investment surges
Tuesday, 11 February, 2020

Lex
Cloud storage: special Snowflake Premium
The start-up is a bet on a growing market in which its competitors are parts of larger companies
Saturday, 8 February, 2020

Fundraising values cloud computing unicorn at $12.4bn
Latest $479m round gives huge boost to fast-growing Snowflake
Wednesday, 5 February, 2020

Adobe and Salesforce overturn old tech order
Oracle and SAP fade after failing to change fast enough
Friday, 31 January, 2020

International Business Machines Corp
IBM turns to technologist chief for cloud computing battle
Arvind Krishna has already pushed group to catch up with cloud computing leaders
Thursday, 30 January, 2020

Microsoft Corp
Microsoft revenue floats higher on cloud platform
World’s biggest software maker continues to outstrip expectations
Tuesday, 28 January, 2020

SAP SE
Germany’s SAP hit by fall in cloud computing orders
Shares drop as analysts flag ‘concerns’ over slowdown