Google Disputes Report That It Manipulates Search Results

Claims in the Yelp-sponsored study that Google deliberately degrades other search engines' results in favor of its own are not new, the company said. Read more »

IBM Taps Startups in European Cloud Expansion

IBM is targeting startups and young companies as it expands its cloud presence in the Central and Eastern European region. Read more »

Cloud Security Open API Effort Kicks Off

CipherCloud and the Cloud Security Alliance form a new working group to fill a perceived gap in the cloud access security broker market. Read more »

Forced Data Localization Hurts Businesses Economically, Google Says

Businesses that are required to host electronic data on local systems could miss out on the economic benefits of cloud computing, Google said. Read more »

Why Dell Is Better as a Private Company

VIDEO: Jim Ganthier, Dell VP/GM for engineered solutions and cloud, discusses how Dell is benefiting from becoming private and how the HP split will be an opportunity. Read more »

Equinix, Alibaba’s Aliyun Hook Up for Dedicated Cloud Services

Collaboration provides multinational, Chinese and North American enterprises with dedicated and secure access to the full suite of Aliyun's cloud services. Read more »

Microsoft Improves Visibility Into Azure Cloud Costs

New APIs are aimed at helping organizations better align their Azure cloud computing usage with their budgetary requirements. Read more »

Google to Build New Data Center on Former Alabama Power Plant Site

The Widows Creek facility, built on the former site of a coal-fired power generation plant, will be Google’s seventh in the U.S. and 14th globally. Read more »

Microsoft Offers Azure SQL Data Warehouse for Limited Preview

Microsoft is cracking the door to its cloud data warehouse. The Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now ready to accept data from customers in limited use cases. Read more »

Google Pulls Controversial Audio Listening Code from Chromium Browser

Google Insists that concerns over its hotword module being used for eavesdropping are off target, but it has removed the module that's meant to enable hands-free search. Read more »