Kevin McLaughlin

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Kevin joined The Information in 2016 after 11 years covering enterprise technology and cloud computing at CRN, a technology trade industry publication. Previously, he was a technical writer for France Telecom’s R&D division and a reporter at Business 2.0, a magazine that covered the rise (and fall) of the first dot-com era. He started his career at The Bangkok Post, a Thailand-based English language daily newspaper serving Southeast Asia. Kevin attended Colgate University and lives with his wife and two young children in Berkeley, Calif. You can reach him at [email protected].

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Microsoft Sales Jump 21%, but Shares Dip on Windows, Surface Concerns

Microsoft turned in a solid performance to close out its fiscal year, but shares dropped nearly 3% due to apparent concerns over the global chip shortage.

DataRobot Raises $300 Million, Acquires AI Startup Algorithmia

DataRobot continues to make big moves following the recent departures of its co-founders, showing that investors haven't lost interest despite recent turmoil.

Thoma Bravo Taking Medallia Private in $6.4 Billion Deal

The market for software that companies use to gather feedback from customers and employees has significant promise but has been slow to take off.

Bret Taylor Faces His Biggest Test at Salesforce

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AWS Accused of Gouging Customers for Networking Bandwidth

The costs of moving data out of AWS are again in the spotlight, as an industry executive calls out the cloud provider for overcharging customers for bandwidth.

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Is Microsoft getting a pass for Azure outages and security response?

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As we reported in early July, Microsoft's Azure cloud has a global shortage of computing capacity due to high demand for cloud services and the global chip shortage. Microsoft Azure has other problems too. There have been a number of service outages in recent years, including one last night Pacific time that took down Teams and other services for users around the worl...

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