Kevin Anthony @kevinanthony002

Hyperscale data centers reached over 390 worldwide in 2017 -  Hyperscale operators are defined as enormous companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google that need to provide computing on a massive scale. You would think that there would be a limit... ow.ly/iB4x50fYt6S

AWS showed no signs of slowing down in 2017 -  AWS had a successful year by any measure. The company continued to behave like a startup with the kind of energy and momentum to invest in new areas not usually seen in an incumbent with a significant mar... ow.ly/W5JK50fWEME

Google Ventures invests in Ripcord’s paper digitizing robotics service -  The $40 million Ripcord Series B we reported back in August has just been bumped up to $65 million, courtesy of additional funding led by Google Ventures. The added funding come... ow.ly/P6LW50fOTzL

WeWork’s Powered By We product is central to 2018 growth strategy -  WeWork had a big year in 2017. The seven-year-old company opened 90 new locations, doubling its global membership, and expanded into new cities in Latin America, Asia and Australia, ... ow.ly/qu4I50fOQcf

Sendbird raises another $16M to help developers add chat functions to a service -  If you go to any company’s website these days, you’re probably starting to see some chat functionality more and more often — and for good reason, as it’s a quick way fo... ow.ly/6kZK50fNRg3

Bima raises $97M from Allianz for microinsurance aimed at emerging markets -  On the heels of Lemonade raising $120 million from Softbank for its new “peer-to-peer” spin on insurance services, another company aimed at disrupting the insurance market i... ow.ly/r7Jd50fNOMY

InVision is investing $5 million in design startups with new fund -  InVision, the platform for creation and collaboration among designers, has today announced the launch of the InVision Fund. Led by CEO Clark Valberg, the company is designating $5 mi... ow.ly/YHzz50fNv1e

As Kubernetes surged in popularity in 2017, it created a vibrant ecosystem -  For a technology that the average person has probably never heard of, Kubernetes surged in popularity in 2017 with a particular group of IT pros who are working with contain... ow.ly/nhIM50fMuOS

Oracle to buy construction collaboration software maker Aconex for $1.2B in cash -  Oracle will pay $1.2 billion in cash to buy construction software developer Aconex, the companies announced today. Based in Melbourne, Aconex’s cloud-based software al... ow.ly/wFut50fLSv6

Adobe had a record quarter, but still has substantial untapped potential -  Adobe announced a record quarter yesterday with $2.01 billion in revenue for Q42017. That represents a healthy 25 percent year over year increase for the company, but about ha... ow.ly/ergZ50fJBOI

Xage emerges from stealth with a blockchain-based IoT security solution -  Getting the myriad of devices involved in the industrial internet of things provisioned and communicating with one another in a secure way will be one of the great technologica... ow.ly/4JYp50fIrWC

Andrew Ng’s Landing.ai wants to bring artificial intelligence to the manufacturing industry, starting with Foxconn -  AI pioneer Andrew Ng is probably best known for his work on the Google Brain project and for leading Baidu’s AI group. After leaving ... ow.ly/bfc950fIkvX

Instana raises $20 million for its microservice monitoring and management service -  Instana, a company that helps enterprises monitor and manage their microservice deployments with the help of automation and artificial intelligence, today announced t... ow.ly/41VU50fI8D5

Microsoft makes Azure Bot Service generally available for developers -  Microsoft introduced the Azure Bot Framework more than two years ago and companies have been building chatbots for a variety of scenarios ever since. Today, the company made the M... ow.ly/L9rb50fHxFP

Payments startup iZettle raises $47M, reportedly at a $950M valuation -  iZettle — the payments startup based out of Stockholm that competes against companies like Square, Paypal and SumUp to provide card transactions using smartphones and tablets as ... ow.ly/KXut50fGLau

Box launches new consulting unit to help customers struggling with digital transformation -  Box announced a new consulting organization today called Box Transform. It is designed to help companies understand that transformation requires a new way of ... ow.ly/StMm50fG0Wj

Iron Mountain acquires IO Data Centers’ US operations for $1.3 billion -  Iron Mountain announced today that it’s acquiring the U.S. data center assets of IO Data Centers for a cool $1.3 billion — and the price tag could potentially go higher. With to... ow.ly/jgfp50fF1WC

In spite of digital transformation, 2017 did not yield the desired financial results for GE -  GE is a great example of a traditional company that has recognized the need to transform into a digital organization, but by all measures 2017 has been a to... ow.ly/toTF50fDKMY

AWS has a post re:Invent surprise as it enters the single sign-on market -  Steve Jobs used to famously end his keynotes with “there is one more thing…” AWS decided to wait a week after their re:Invent conference ended to announce their more thing whe... ow.ly/s5T150fBLWe

Salesforce is latest big tech vendor to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation -  Salesforce announced today that it was joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open source organization that manages Kubernetes, the popular open s... ow.ly/yxAB50fAXLg