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Published: April 30, 2021, 5:30 a.m.

This week we discuss the Rackspace-Platform9 partnership, Microsoft buying Kinvolk and the commodification of DevOps. Plus, some hot takes on Zoom\u2019s new immersive view.

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• Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room
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• M&A\n\n
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  • Rackspace Technology Announces Strategic Investment in Platform9 and Launches Rackspace Managed Platform for Kubernetes
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  • Kinvolk: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk
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  • IBM Acquires Turbonomic to Power the Future of AI-Driven Hybrid Cloud
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• Microsoft\n\n
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  • Microsoft beats Q3 revenue expectations on strength of cloud and PC sales
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  • Microsoft books biggest revenue growth since 2018
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  • Kubernetes Usability SIG
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  • Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision
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• Earnings\n\n
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  • Alphabet reports big earnings beat as revenue grows 34%
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  • Apple is on Fire - The Irrelevant Investor
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• The Commodification of DevOps\n\n
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  • 7 things wrong with Deloitte\u2019s Agile Tube Map
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  • Atlassian\u2019s Open DevOps
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• Crypto miners are killing free CI
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\n\nRelevant to your interests\n\n

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• Is Octopus Deploy Australia\u2019s next unicorn?
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• Panasonic to buy U.S. supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder for $7.1 bln
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• Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared
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• Apple to build first East Coast campus in N.C., will spend $430b across U.S. over 5 years
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• Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash
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• Open-source software company SUSE to float in Frankfurt
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• SiriusXM Acquires Roman Mars' 99% Invisible Podcast
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• Spotify unveils subscription platform for podcasts
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• What is Amazon Athena? An Introduction and Walkthrough - Last Week in AWS
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• Snap has acquired Pixel8earth, a 3D mapping developer, for $7.6M \u2013 TechCrunch
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• How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data
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• Changes at Basecamp
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• Microsoft Teams was down worldwide for many users for two hours
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• IBM Stock: Things Are Changing (NYSE:IBM)
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• HCSEC-2021-12 - Codecov Security Event and HashiCorp GPG Key Exposure
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• Facebook benefits from pandemic ad spending but Apple could spoil its party
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• The Slander Industry
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• What really happened at Basecamp
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• Changes at Basecamp
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• In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• YOO! - Microsoft Sweden 1993
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• Google Timelapse
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• World's Oldest Known Bottle Of Whiskey Could Fetch $40,000 At Boston-Based Auction
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• "Microsoft Excel Influencer\u201d
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• N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog\u2019s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash
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• Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft's next default font
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Brandon: Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3)
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• Matt: Leeroy Jenkins
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• Cot\xe9: MonitorControl. You can change your zoom banner art thing: no more office plants. Saul Pawnson as a kid.
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