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2020–02–10 | If anyone needed proof that IBM is out of step with the world, the quote below eliminates all doubt.
Maybe we should have done it a year or two earlier, but then there’s this question of would the world be ready? I think if we’d done it in 2015 it might’ve been too early.
| Arvind Krishna, SVP of Hybrid Cloud, IBM, quoted by techcentral.co.za
This is crazy talk from the incoming CEO of IBM. Too early? Nine years after Amazon launched AWS? Reminds me of the silly things that Steve Ballmer said about the iPhone.
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Announces Plans to Step Down | Nicholas Thompson reports on doings at Linkedin. Will Linkedin finally get more closely integrated to Microsoft, now?
Asana files to go public via direct listing | Work management company Asana plans a directly listing like Slack and Spotify:
Asana is interestingly a much smaller company than Slack or Spotify, and has raised much less capital. The startup has raised about $213 million according to Crunchbase. In late 2018, Asana…
