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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO Business Intelligence

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Meta also has a veto on competitors using Llama for anything too big: The Llama 3.2

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What telco mobile money licenses mean for Nigeria’s financial services sector

CIO Business Intelligence

That may change as telecommunications companies such as Airtel and MTN jump into the mobile money market, after recently receiving licenses to do so. It was only late last year that Nigeria’s Central Bank (CBN), gave the green light for telcos to acquire mobile money licenses. Mobile money is not entirely new to Nigeria.

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Fountainhead: Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the.

Fountainhead

Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the Field. Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in. ► 2006. (2). ► 2006. (2). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Virtualization.

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A changing market landscape requires constant evolution: Our mission for VMware customers

CIO Business Intelligence

We are accomplishing this new engagement in two main ways: Standardizing the metric for our pricing across cloud providers to per-core licensing – the same metric used in our end-customer licensing – and providing license portability for VCF. The license portability feature we have added to VCF is key to this strategy.

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‘Desktop fusion’ startup Avalanche Energy lands $40M and logs new tech achievement

GeekWire

CEO Robin Langtry said it could be the highest operating voltage generated by any fusion device, breaking the 190kV record set at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2006. The plan is to have state departments of health issue the licenses. “We’re making really steady progress,” Langtry said.

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Chappelle’s Show returns to Netflix now that Dave got paid

The Verge

Netflix began airing Chappelle’s Show on November 1st but pulled it on November 24th after the comedian complained that Comedy Central’s owner ViacomCBS licensed the show without his approval. “I And I got my license back, and I got my show back, and they paid me millions of dollars. View this post on Instagram. And I got my name back.

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