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News•Feb 16, 2026
Oracle Vows 'New Era' For MySQL as Users Sharpen Their Forks
Oracle announced a decisive new approach to MySQL, installing fresh engineering leadership and unveiling a public development roadmap. The vendor pledged to shift key commercial‑only features, such as vector functions for AI workloads, into the open‑source Community Edition. Greater transparency, community‑driven contributions, and expanded developer tools are central to the plan. The move aims to quell growing calls for a major fork of the database code.
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News•Feb 16, 2026
DVSA Seeks £95K Digital Chief to Steer Test Booking System Out of the Ditch
The UK Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is recruiting a chief digital and information officer with a £95,000 salary to overhaul its 18‑year‑old practical test booking platform, which has been plagued by bots and resale schemes. A National Audit...
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News•Feb 16, 2026
Cisco Set to Release Home-Brew Hypervisor as a VMware Alternative
Cisco is preparing to launch NFVIS‑for‑UC, a purpose‑built hypervisor that runs only its Unified Communications applications, offering a lightweight alternative to VMware. VMware, now owned by Broadcom, has shifted focus to its expensive Cloud Foundation suite, leaving low‑end vSphere customers...
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Deals•Feb 14, 2026
ServiceNow Acquires AI Analytics Firm Pyramid Analytics
ServiceNow announced on Feb 14, 2026 that it will acquire Pyramid Analytics, a small AI analytics company. The acquisition expands ServiceNow's AI capabilities and strengthens its enterprise SaaS offerings. Deal terms were not disclosed.
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News•Feb 11, 2026
Cisco Looses Splunk to Probe and Tame Its Growing Agentic Menagerie
Cisco announced an AI Agent Monitoring tool for Splunk Observability Cloud, visualising LLM and agent workflows while tracking performance, cost, and behaviour. The tool integrates with Cisco's AI Defense suite, which just became generally available and now includes Model Context...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Salesforce Puts Heroku Out to PaaSture
Salesforce announced it will cease developing new features for its Heroku platform-as-a-service, moving the product to a sustaining‑engineering model that emphasizes stability, security and support. Existing customers can keep using and renewing Heroku, but the company will no longer sell...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach Clocks Out Amid Job Cuts and Market Jitters
Carl Eschenbach has resigned as CEO of Workday, handing the reins back to co‑founder Aneel Bhusri. The transition follows a series of cost‑cutting moves, including an 8.5% staff reduction and a recent 2% layoff, as the firm grapples with AI‑driven market...
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Deals•Feb 9, 2026
KKR and Singtel Acquire Remaining 82% of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres for $5.1B
Investment firm KKR, together with Singapore telecom Singtel, announced a $5.1 billion acquisition of the remaining 82% of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. The deal gives KKR a 75% ownership of the data centre operator, with Singtel retaining the balance. The...
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Deals•Feb 3, 2026
Snowflake Acquires Crunchy Data to Add PostgreSQL Service to Its AI Data Cloud
Snowflake announced it has acquired Crunchy Data, a PostgreSQL service provider, to launch a native PostgreSQL database‑as‑a‑service within its AI Data Cloud. The deal enables Snowflake to combine transactional OLTP workloads with analytics and AI under a single governance framework.
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Deals•Feb 2, 2026
Capgemini to Sell the Biz that Works for US Government Amid Criticism of ICE Contract
Capgemini announced it will divest its US government subsidiary, Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS), amid criticism over its ICE contract. The unit, which accounts for 0.4% of global revenue, is being put up for sale with an asking price of about...
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Deals•Jan 19, 2026
CloudSEK Raises $10M Series B2 Funding From Connecticut Innovations
Indian cybersecurity firm CloudSEK announced a $10 million strategic investment from Connecticut Innovations, the venture‑capital arm of the State of Connecticut, as part of its Series B2 funding round. The investment marks the first time a US state investment arm has backed...
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Deals•Jan 12, 2026
Baidu to Spin Out AI Chip Unit Kunlunxin in Planned IPO
Chinese internet giant Baidu announced plans to spin out its chipmaking business unit Kunlunxin and pursue a separate public listing. The proposed spin‑off aims to showcase Kunlunxin's AI chip capabilities, attract dedicated investors, and unlock value for Baidu's AI‑powered businesses....
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Deals•Dec 22, 2025
Kyndryl to Acquire Dutch Cloud Provider Solvinity
In November 2025, American IT services firm Kyndryl announced its intention to acquire Solvinity, a Dutch managed‑cloud provider that runs critical national infrastructure. The deal raises concerns about European digital sovereignty as a local provider becomes owned by a US‑based...
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