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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said he would use some Oracle strategies to help Google Cloud catch up to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

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Ageism at tech companies in China is running rampant, forcing people who elsewhere would be entering the prime of their careers out of the industry.

GKE is the industry's first fully managed Kubernetes service with full Kubernetes API, 4-way autoscaling, release channels, and multi-cluster support.

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Today we’re announcing the beta of Cloud Run, our new serverless compute platform for containerized apps with portability built-in.

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon decries socialism. Unless of course it’s the banks that need a government bailout, says Robert Reich, former US secretary of labor

Instead, the S/360 proved to be the most successful product launch ever and changed the course of computing