5 Biggest Stories for the Week, Oct. 27-31
October 31, 2014
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Too busy to get to all the news this week? Don’t worry—we’ve got ya covered. Here are the top 5 news stories on The VAR Guy for the week ending Oct. 31. Happy Halloween!
After years in the making, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12, the latest version of the open source operating system, is out, introducing enhancements for the cloud, virtualization, POWER8 compatibility and more.
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Sundar Pichai, head of Google’s (GOOG) Android, Apps and Chrome business, now is boss of all the company’s core products, including commerce and ads, Google+, infrastructure, maps, research and search, in an executive reorganization spearheaded by chief executive Larry Page.
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Microsoft (MSFT) has laid off another 3,000 workers worldwide in what the vendor said was the last stage of an 18,000 workforce reduction it initiated in July when it cut some 13,000 staffers from its payroll.
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IBM (IBM) said it will help customers mine information from Twitter’s (TWTR) social network as another tool to make business decisions in what both companies are calling a “landmark partnership.”
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With Apple Pay newly available only for a week, giants CVS and Rite Aid, both members of the powerful MCX consortium of merchants, abruptly ditched the mobile payment platform over the weekend without saying why. Home Depot and Walmart also have done the same. Their moves drew a lot of attention, but the impact of their moves is difficult to predict.
Read the story here.
With Apple Pay newly available only for a week, giants CVS and Rite Aid, both members of the powerful MCX consortium of merchants, abruptly ditched the mobile payment platform over the weekend without saying why. Home Depot and Walmart also have done the same. Their moves drew a lot of attention, but the impact of their moves is difficult to predict.
Read the story here.
Too busy to get to all the news this week? Don't worry—we've got ya covered. Here are the top 5 news stories on The VAR Guy for the week ending Oct. 31. Happy Halloween!
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