Alphabet’s Google struck a deal to buy cybersecurity firm Mandiant for $5.4 billion in cash, in a move to beef up Google Cloud’s security offerings so it can better compete with Microsoft Azure and AWS. Google announced the deal Tuesday morning, a day after The Information reported the two companies were in talks. Bloomberg had reported last month that Microsoft was also looking at...
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