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Google Inc. announced on June 6, 2019, that it was acquiring data analytics start-up Looker for USD 2.6 billion in cash. This is the fourth highest price paid by Google for an acquisition, its last big acquisition being Nest for USD 3.2 billion in 2014. This also marks as the first major acquisition for new […]

Ambitious government plans are ensuring that the region becomes one of the fastest-growing cloud-based markets. “We are betting on the cloud. We’re betting big on Amazon,” said Salman Al-Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain. He was referring to cloud computing giant Amazon opening its first Amazon Web Services (AWS) Region in Bahrain. The Bahrain government is […]