Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard explains how the much anticipated U.S. District Court ruling in the Epic Games v. Apple case, along with the broader international push to combat potentially anti-competitive mechanisms built into popular operating systems, could fundamentally impact App Store revenue streams for tech giants like Apple and Alphabet’s Google starting this year.
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on an interesting week in the mainframe space. Congressman Matt Cartwright (D-PA-08) looks to get support for the Grace Hopper Code for Us Act in the House to fund higher ed training for IT jobs and addressing the shortage of professionals with a background in older coding languages needed to maintain and modernize critical government IT systems. Micro Focus plays a significant role in that initiative, and Broadcom looks to transform the mainframe landscape through Open Source with The Linux Foundation, Open Mainframe Project. Very interesting times ahead for the mainframe industry.
This summer has seen a wave of antitrust lawsuits and proposed bills targeting Big Tech—and there are no signs of slowing. Google is now the target of 36 states that are suing the company for its aggressive app store terms.
Dell Technologies released its annual suit of ESG and social impact reports, Futurum’s Shelly Kramer takes a look at what the company has accomplished over the course of the last year.
House Democrats, with bipartisan support, have introduced a series of completely misguided antitrust bills aimed at giving lawmakers and certain agencies greater power to control “Big Tech.”
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum’s Daniel Newman and Olivier Blanchard explore the 5 new antitrust bills recently proposed in congress, the state of antitrust, and the impact these laws would have on big tech.
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on news coming out of HPE’s Discover event of leading sports manufacturer Salomon’s selection of HPE GreenLake. Not only is this move intended to provide a next-generation, on-premises cloud environment, it’s also a nod toward the company’s focus on ESG and meeting its ambitious sustainability goal — and perhaps a key point of vendor differentiation moving forward.
