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Google Cloud hiring spree: Alphabet adds 6,450 employees in Q3, cites cloud as biggest factor

Google parent company Alphabet grew by a net total of 6,450 employees in the third quarter, up nearly 6 percent… Read More

Interview: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on AI, the cloud and the bank’s big bet on Seattle tech

Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase CEO and chairman, will visit Seattle on Wednesday, which happens to be a key date… Read More

Amazon Web Services powers tech giant’s profits, again, but slower growth raises new questions

Amazon Web Services posted $8.4 billion in net sales and $2.1 billion in operating profits in the second quarter, continuing… Read More

Hello, neighbor! How Google Cloud is making its presence known in Amazon’s backyard

Google is planting its flag in Amazon territory. Google signage has been installed across the multiple buildings going up in… Read More

Tech Moves: Fraxion adds to board; digital marketplace Etailz hires new CEO; and more

— Business expense management startup Fraxion added three new executives to its board of directors: Rick Gustafson was most recently… Read More

Google acquires Looker for $2.6 billion to add its business intelligence software to Google Cloud

Google is getting deeper into enterprise software with the $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker, which makes business-intelligence software for data… Read More

Networking issues take down Google Cloud in parts of the U.S. and Europe, YouTube and Snapchat also affected

Update 6:13pm PT: Google sounded the all-clear at 5:09 pm PT, saying that all service had been restored. Our original… Read More

Tech Moves: Vacasa names ex-OpenTable CEO to board; Pixvana brings on sales VP; and more

— Vacation home rental company Vacasa added former OpenTable CEO Matt Roberts to its board of directors. Roberts led OpenTable… Read More

Tech Moves: PicMonkey adds to C-suite; RealNetworks hires exec for facial recognition team; and more

Seattle-based graphic design and photo editing platform PicMonkey appointed Pearl Chan as chief financial officer and Judith McGarry as chief… Read More

Does Google really run the most reliable cloud service? Even its own sources are skeptical

The slide whizzed by during a Google Cloud Next keynote address last month in San Francisco, perhaps a little too… Read More

Former Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene and longtime Google CEO Eric Schmidt leaving Alphabet’s board of directors

Two long-serving members of Alphabet’s board of directors who also played prominent roles as executives at the company plan to… Read More

Deadly crane incident at future Google Cloud campus in Seattle leaves project in flux

The centerpiece of Google’s Seattle expansion is in flux after a construction crane for the tech giant’s new campus in… Read More

Experts from Google, T-Mobile and other tech frontiers weigh in on the future of AI

Artificial intelligence can rev up recommendation engines and make self-driving cars safer. It can even beat humans at their own… 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

Google Cloud makes a big open-source move: Managed databases from Redis Labs, MongoDB, and Elastic coming soon

Google plans to raise the stakes Tuesday in the ongoing debate over open-source software in a cloudy world with the… Read More

Cloud Run: How Google Cloud plans to bring serverless computing to containerized applications

One downside of paying a cloud computing vendor to manage a lot of your computing infrastructure is that if you… Read More

Google’s Stadia leverages tech advances to bring the lucrative video-game market into the cloud

After spending billions over the last few years to upgrade its cloud computing infrastructure, Google thinks it is ready to… Read More

Celebrate Pi Day with 31.4 trillion digits from Google (plus a tasty slice of pie)

What’s the best way to celebrate Pi Day? That’s the geeky holiday that takes place on 3/14 … in other… Read More

Google acquires data migration startup Alooma in hopes of easing customers into its cloud

It’s easier to win cloud business when it’s easier for potential customers to move their data into your cloud, and… Read More

Google boosts capital expenditures in Q4 by 80 percent to $6.8B as it chases cloud rivals

Google continued to plow the profits from its search advertising business into cloud computing capacity and headcount during the fourth… Read More

Google hikes G Suite prices for the first time, Business edition now $12 per user per month

Google’s quest to find revenue from something other than search advertising has led it in some interesting directions. G Suite… Read More

Crashing KubeCon: Has Istio become the new cloud-native darling?

What a difference a year makes. Kubernetes has been one of the most prominent open-source projects in cloud computing over… Read More

Why some open-source companies are considering a more closed approach

At the peak of its power, open-source software is having an existential crisis. There’s no question that the concept of… Read More

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene stepping down, to be replaced by former Oracle cloud exec Thomas Kurian

Three eventful years after veteran tech executive and longtime Google board member Diane Greene was brought in to run the… Read More

Google wants to make it easier for cloud customers to find AI tools that fit their needs

Google plans to introduce a central repository for machine-learning tools Thursday, with the aim of making it easier for companies… Read More

The cost of the cloud: Amazon takes a breath, while Microsoft and Google plunge ahead

Building and maintaining a modern cloud computing service requires billions of dollars in capital expenditures every quarter. Microsoft and Google… Read More

As storms gather over upcoming Saudi tech conference, Google says Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene will no longer attend

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene joined the increasing list of prominent U.S. technology and business executives distancing themselves from the… Read More

Google Cloud drops out of the running for the Pentagon’s $10B cloud contract

Google’s decision to articulate a set of principles around its use of artificial intelligence has officially cost it business. EARLIER:… Read More

Cloudflare enlists Microsoft and other cloud companies in the Bandwidth Alliance, promising cheaper cloud networking costs

With one notable exception, Cloudflare has brought several major cloud and data center companies together in a new industry group… Read More

Carnegie Mellon’s Andrew Moore to join Google Cloud as new head of AI later this year

After an interesting year for Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence group, Andrew Moore, dean of computer science at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon… Read More