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| 2025 |
Spotify
Spotify donated $150,000 to President Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony and hosted an inauguration-related brunch.
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| 2025 | Vercel's v0 AI web development tool won a Webby Award for developer tools. |
| 2025 | Vercel introduced a new web application infrastructure model called Fluid, which enables local region instances to handle multiple concurrent requests while maintaining serverless system elasticity. |
| 2025 |
IBM Quantum Platform
IBM reported over 400,000 users of the IBM Quantum Platform, with users generating more than 2,800 research papers using the platform's quantum devices.
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| May 2025 | Announced an agreement to sell its consumer fiber business to AT&T for $5.75 billion. |
| April 2 2025 |
Apache CloudStack
VMware vSphere 7.0 end of support date
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| April 1 2025 |
Kubeflow
Kubeflow 1.10 was released, continuing the ongoing development of the machine learning platform.
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| 2025 |
Key Management Interoperability Protocol
KMIP interoperability demonstration focused on testing Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms in anticipation of advancing quantum computer capabilities.
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| 2025 |
Key Management Interoperability Protocol
Release of KMIP version 3.0, introducing an explicit concept of KMIP users as System Objects, improving object lifecycle and referencing, formalizing object groups and hierarchies, and adding an Obliterate administrative operation.
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| March 1 2025 |
Microsoft 365
Microsoft experienced a global outage affecting all Microsoft products, which lasted for several hours and disrupted services worldwide.
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| January 2025 |
Apache Storm
Apache Storm released Version 2.8.0, which requires Java 17 or higher as the minimum Java version.
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| January 22 2025 | Vercel acquired Tremor, continuing its strategy of strategic technology acquisitions. |
| January 2025 |
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 Copilot rebranding took effect, coinciding with the wider release of AI features to Microsoft 365 Personal and Home subscriptions.
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| 2024 |
Spotify
Spotify added 15 hours of audiobook listening to its premium tier and introduced a new 'bundle' royalty rate for songwriters to balance licensing expenses.
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| 2024 |
Spotify
Spotify reported its first profitable year in fiscal 2024, marking a significant financial milestone for the company after years of growth and development.
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| 2024 |
Spotify
Major financial turnaround with gross operating profit of $1,365 million and a significant net profit of $1,138 million. Revenue increases to $15.7 billion, while employee count slightly reduces to 7,200.
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| 2024 |
Spotify
Spotify modified its API to prevent modded versions of the client from functioning ahead of Spotify Wrapped 2024.
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| 2024 | Multiple 911 service disruptions in South Dakota prompted a new FCC investigation, with local officials claiming service was not fully disrupted due to operational texting systems. |
| 2024 | Lumen Technologies was reported to be affected by a cyber attack from the Salt Typhoon advanced persistent threat linked to the Chinese government. |
| 2024 |
Azure Data Lake
Planned retirement date for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Azure Data Lake Analytics / U-SQL technologies.
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| December 2024 |
Spotify
Harper's Magazine published a report exposing Spotify's alleged practice of padding playlists with ghost artists created by production companies to minimize royalty payments and increase profits.
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| December 2024 | AWS announced Amazon Nova, its own family of foundation models available through Amazon Bedrock, designed for tasks including content generation, video understanding, and building agentic applications, offered in six different sizes. |
| December 2024 |
Microsoft 365
Microsoft announced the rebranding of the Microsoft 365 app to Microsoft 365 Copilot, with a new logo featuring the Copilot logo and 'M365' tag.
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| December 9 2024 |
Spotify
Car Thing hardware is scheduled to fully stop working, rendering the devices inoperable.
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| December 2 2024 |
Apache CloudStack
Release of version 4.20.x, the current release with Java 17 support
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| November 2024 |
Apache Storm
Apache Storm released Version 2.7.1, which was the last release supporting Java 11.
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| November 2024 |
Microsoft 365
Microsoft soft launched Microsoft Copilot Pro AI features for Microsoft 365 Personal and Home subscriptions in Asia-Pacific markets, accompanied by a price increase.
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| September 2024 |
Spotify
At the end of Q3, Spotify reported 252 million subscribers and 640 million monthly active users.
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| July 22 2024 |
Kubeflow
Kubeflow 1.9 released, marking the latest version of the machine learning platform.
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| July 19 2024 | AWS updated its documentation to recommend more secure implementation practices for Application Load Balancer authentication. |
| July 11 2024 | AWS confirmed the Application Load Balancer security issue affecting its customers. |
| June 2024 |
Xbox Cloud Gaming
Microsoft partnered with Amazon to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to Fire TV devices through the Xbox TV app.
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| May 2024 |
Spotify
Spotify sent announcements to Car Thing owners, informing them that the device would completely cease functioning on 9 December 2024.
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| May 2024 | Vercel raised $250 million in a funding round, valuing the company at $3.25 billion. |
| May 2024 |
IBM Quantum Platform
IBM sunset the IBM Quantum Lab in favor of a serverless model, directing users to transition providers qBraid and OVHCloud for cloud-based notebook environments.
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| May 2024 |
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud partners with Airtel.
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| May 13 2024 | The television show hosted by meteorologist Mike Bettes was renamed to Weather Unfiltered. |
| May 2 2024 |
Oracle Database
Oracle Database 23ai was released on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), offering cloud services including OCI Exadata Database Service, OCI Exadata Database Cloud@Customer, and OCI Base Database Service. The release was renamed from 23c to 23ai to highlight its new AI capabilities.
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| April 2024 |
Spotify
Spotify expanded audiobook access from the US, UK, and Australia to include Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, and announced an expansion of its book catalogue to 250,000 books.
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| April 2024 | AWS announced Deadline Cloud, a new service for setting up, deploying, and scaling graphics and visual effects rendering pipelines on cloud infrastructure. |
| April 2024 | Security researchers from Miggo security identified a configuration vulnerability in AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) that could allow attackers to bypass access controls. |
| March 2024 |
Spotify
The Writers Guild of America, East ratified a collective agreement with Ringer and Spotify Studios, increasing minimum base salaries to $65,000, adding protections for migrant employees, and including safeguards against AI-generated voice replicas.
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| March 28 2024 |
Apache CloudStack
Release of version 4.19.x, a Long-Term Support (LTS) release
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| March 9 2024 | Lumen connectivity services disruption affected AmTote, causing several US thoroughbred racetracks to be unable to process bets, forcing Tampa Bay Downs to run the Tampa Bay Derby as a non-wagering event. |
| February 2024 | Weather Underground and its parent company, The Weather Company, were acquired and became controlled by Francisco Partners, a private equity firm. |
| January 2024 |
Google Cloud Platform
Introduction of Africa-south1 region in Johannesburg, South Africa, marking Google Cloud Platform's first infrastructure in the African continent.
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| 2023 |
Spotify
Spotify initially announced its intention to leave Uruguay due to copyright law concerns, but later reversed this decision within a few weeks.
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| 2023 |
Spotify
Spotify continues growth trajectory with revenue of $14.3 billion, though still experiencing an operating loss of $311 million and a net loss of $575 million. Employee count grows to 9,100.
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| 2023 |
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365 Human Resources re-integrated.
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| 2023 | Vercel released AI SDK, a software development kit for building conversational streaming interfaces in JavaScript and TypeScript. |
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