UPDATE 1-Salesforce, Google form cloud partnership (CRM, AMZN, MSFT, HD, TGT)

  Cloud-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc said on Monday it has entered into a partnership with Google's cloud platform G Suite, to support its rapidly growing global customer base. Salesforce shares were…

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube Form Global Working Group to Combat Terror Content

Social media giants Facebook, Google's YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft said on Monday they were forming a global working group to combine their efforts to remove terrorist content from their platforms.…

Major IT Players Form R Consortium to Strengthen Data Analysis

The Linux Foundation announced the formation ofR Consortium, with the intention of strengthening technical and user communities around the R language, the open source programming language for statistical data analysis.…