Salesforce sharks ClickSoftware
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It has spent $16.35 billion in the last two weeks on acquisitions 

Salesforce has written a cheque to buy acquire Israeli software developer ClickSoftware for $1.35 billion in cash, shares and possibly a box of chocolates.

Cloudstrike will stop protecting 8Chan
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Sees it as a cesspool of hate

Cloudflare says it has had enough of protecting the 8chan message board which it says is a “cesspool of hate” and a key player in white terrorist incidents in El Paso, Dayton, and New Zealand mass shootings.

LinkedIn is moving to Microsoft’s Azure public cloud
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Expected after the buy-out

LinkedIn said it’s finally migrating computing workloads from its own equipment to the Azure public cloud and giving Microsoft its critical data.

Microsoft cloud powers record Fourth Quarter
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X-Box sales only dark cloud

Software King of the World  Microsoft posted record fourth quarter of its 2019 financial results today with a revenue of $33.7 billion and net income of $13.2 billion.

SAP shares fall on disappointing margins
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If only there were some management software it could use to help out

SAP, the maker of expensive esoteric software, which no-one really knows what it does, has told its shareholders not to expect a major improvement in margins before next year.