2026-01-30
News: OpenAI confirms it has hired at least 7 staffers from AI coding startup Cline, says it was not part of an acquisition. The hires could help OpenAI improve Codex to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code. More here: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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OpenAI has hired 7+ employees from AI coding startup Cline, including Nik Pash, who left Cline after posting “imagine the smell” on X regarding an xAI hackathon
OpenAI has recently hired more than a half dozen employees from Cline, a startup that develops an open-source …
2026-01-29
News: OpenAI confirms it has hired at least 7 staffers from AI coding startup Cline, says it was not part of an acquisition. The hires could help OpenAI improve Codex to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code. More here: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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OpenAI has hired 7+ employees from AI coding startup Cline, including Nik Pash, who left Cline after posting “imagine the smell” on X regarding an xAI hackathon
OpenAI has recently hired more than a half dozen employees from Cline, a startup that develops an open-source …
2025-08-22
Scoop w/@KalleyHuang - Google Cloud has struck a six-year cloud agreement with Meta worth more than $10 billion, in the latest sign of how cloud sometimes makes for unusual dance partners. More here: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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Source: Meta has signed a deal with Google, worth more than $10B over six years, to use Google Cloud's servers, storage, networking, and other services
Google has struck a major cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms, according to two people familiar with the matter.
2025-07-15
AWS still dominates the cloud computing market, but Google is getting a foot in the door with some AWS customers with Gemini 2.5. It's too early to call it a trend but it does show how Google has made big strides in AI this year. More here in our report: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI, attracting business from The Browser Company, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, and OpenAI
Kevin McLaughlin / The Information : X: @mzunigap and @kevkubernetes X: Mario Zúñiga / @mzunigap : Competition in the cloud services market. Once again, like in most digital marke...
2025-05-14
Late-breaking acquisition news: Arista Networks is in the process of acquiring VeloCloud, a Broadcom unit that sells networking hardware and software and was part of its $69 billion purchase of VMware two years ago. More here: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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Source: Arista plans to acquire Broadcom's VeloCloud, which provides SD-WAN tech to telecoms, for less than $1B; VMware bought VeloCloud for ~$450M in 2017
Kevin McLaughlin / The Information : X: @kevkubernetes X: Kevin McLaughlin / @kevkubernetes : Late-breaking acquisition news: Arista Networks is in the process of acquiring VeloCl...
2023-05-25
Snowflake, in a brief statement, says it is acquiring search startup Neeva for an undisclosed sum. The news comes after we reported last week that the companies were in talks about a deal (https://www.theinformation.com/ ...)
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Snowflake reports Q1 revenue up 48% YoY to $623.6M, vs. $608M est., forecasts Q2 product revenue below est., and plans to acquire startup Neeva; SNOW drops 10%+
- Snowflake beat on the top and bottom lines for the fiscal first quarter, but it gave product revenue guidance that missed consensus estimates.
2022-08-09
News: DataRobot's interim CEO Debanjan Saha, in all-hands meeting, says more layoffs are coming and announces departures of CFO Damon Fletcher, Chief GTM Officer Tom Levey and several other senior execs. More here: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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Sources: DataRobot's CFO and several other executives have resigned after CEO Dan Wright's resignation in July 2022 amid an uproar over execs' quiet stock sales
2022-07-09
News: Oracle CMO Ariel Kelman, who joined 2 years ago from AWS, is leaving the company, as is Juergen Lindner, SVP of marketing for SaaS apps. Oracle also recently mulled $1 billion in cost cuts that could lead to thousands of layoffs. More here (w/@amir) https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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Source: Oracle considered cost reductions of up to $1B that could result in thousands of layoffs as soon as August, mostly impacting staff in the US and Europe
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2021-10-08
Bret Taylor has made Salesforce more product-oriented, launching an entry-level product manager program and appointing a chief design officer. As he preps for a possible promotion to CEO, we look at how he could take Salesforce in a different direction. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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