Three Aussie banks sign up for IBM block chain
Wanting to digitise banking guarantees
Australia’s top three banks have agreed to partner with IBM and shopping mall owner Scentre Group to test blockchain technology to digitise bank guarantees.
Google buys Looker
Regulators? who cares about regulators and privacy watchdogs
Search engine outfit Google has agreed to buy Looker, a business intelligence platform, for $2.6 billion in cash to bolster its cloud computing division by providing customers with more powerful data analytics.
Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds
Double the rain
Software King of the World Microsoft has decided to link its cloud with one belonging to the licence fee collector Oracle.
SoftwareONE buys InterGrupo
Latin America moves
SoftwareONE has written a cheque for a controlling stake in InterGrupo, one of Latin America's cloud technology consulting and application modernisation providers.
IBM spruces up Db2
Adding AI and more data science
IBM is planning to improve its Db2 database by bringing in more data science and AI functions.