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SAP to welcome hundreds of new Aussie employees in $10M hiring spree

Aims to use this skilled workforce to penetrate into the SMB market
Riverbed updates its partner program

Includes more incentives and investment for partners
Cisco Partner Summit 2016: Cisco to increase partner investments

Guiding principles to be rolled out across two partner events this year
Microsoft, Salesforce.com join $US5.3 billion Informatica buyout

A new CEO takes the helm at the newly private data-integration firm
Alibaba eyes cloud computing expansion with $1 billion investment

The Chinese company has plans to open a second data center in the U.S.
With fresh cash in hand, HackerRank wants to be the 'default resume' for coders

The site's coding challenges help the best programmers rise to the top

There's no bubble in business Wi-Fi, Aerohive CEO says

David Flynn sees a growing need for dense Wi-Fi networks with cloud-based management

Microsoft throws away $315 million on failed Nook deal

Microsoft took a big loss on its 2012 investment in Barnes & Noble, getting less than half of its original $300 million back
Boston's Bolt launches hardware companies

With more than a million dollars in prototyping equipment and a wide range of expertise, Bolt helps launch hardware startups
Intel plays defense against ARM with Cloudera stake

Beyond selling more x86 chips, the Intel investment could be pushing Cloudera away from software development for ARM
SAP lays out its strategy for growth, with HANA at the forefront

The HANA in-memory computing platform will figure into everything SAP does, executives say
Could Bitcoin's frothy venture funding dry up?

Recent regulatory developments could slow the pace of investments in 2014, one expert said
SAP's Q2: The hot topics

Cloud software growth, HANA, rival Oracle and the global economy will be in the spotlight