This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch Editor in Chief Connie Loizos is joined by Francis deSouza, the renowned entrepreneur, operator, and, since January, COO of Google Cloud. They discuss his goals for Google Cloud and how the company maintains its competitive position by focusing on startups while giants like AWS and Oracle snap up major […]
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Oracle is shaking up its executive suite as it sets its sights set on AI infrastructure dominance. The company announced Monday that it is promoting Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-CEO roles. Magouyrk joined Oracle in 2014 from Amazon Web Services. He was a founding member of Oracle’s cloud engineering team and has served as the president of Oracle’s cloud infrastructure business unit for more than
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Few things generate as much data as simply observing the Earth from above. But Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman very quickly realized that all that data still wasn’t enough for their startup to thrive. Their data-centric, climate tech startup, Earthmover, would need to pivot. The pivot isn’t entirely away from climate tech, though. Instead, the
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Google Cloud announced Thursday it has added fast-rising AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf to its roster of customers. Both companies have chosen Google Cloud as their primary cloud computing provider, the latest sign of Google’s rising prominence against larger rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure. The deals also highlight Google’s efforts to make its cloud
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AI is moving fast — but who decides how it’s built, shared, and scaled? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re diving in with Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, for a session on what it takes to make cutting-edge research and models truly open
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Productivity software giant Atlassian is making its largest acquisition yet to add a developer productivity tool to its product suite. Atlassian announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire the developer productivity insight platform DX for $1 billion in cash and restricted stock. Enterprises use DX to analyze how productive their engineering teams are and identify bottlenecks slowing them down. DX was launched five years ago by Abi Noda
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This week, OpenAI and Oracle shocked the markets with a surprise $300 billion, five-year agreement, part of a surge of new business that sent the cloud provider’s stock skyrocketing. But maybe the markets shouldn’t have been taken by surprise. The deal is a reminder that, despite Oracle’s legacy status, the company still plays a major
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Thanks to a pledge to unbundle its corporate messaging app Teams from its productivity suites, Microsoft has managed to slip unscathed through a major antitrust investigation by the European Commission that could have resulted in massive fines for the tech giant. The Commission on Friday okayed Microsoft’s concessions to address the EU’s competition concerns over
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On Thursday, Box launched its developer conference Boxworks by announcing a new set of AI features, building agentic AI models into the backbone of the company’s products. It’s more product announcements than usual for the conference, reflecting the increasingly fast pace of AI development at the company: Box launched its AI studio last year, followed
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Oracle sent its shares soaring after markets closed yesterday after reporting that it signed multiple multi-billion-dollar contracts with several customers. Now, we have an idea of who those customers might be. Oracle signed a deal with OpenAI for the AI company to purchase $300 billion worth of compute power over a span of about five
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