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...Tan’s expansion strategy for VMware rests on pushing it into every kind of data centre, from private corporate facilities to Big Tech’s vast cloud computing platforms....
...US chipmaker Broadcom will complete its acquisition of cloud software company VMware on Wednesday, the two companies announced after China approved the $69bn deal....
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...But Tan’s political dalliance proved to be humiliating....
...Pointing to the image, Chiave says, “This is me with my head in the clouds. And this is Verdiana, with her feet on the ground.”...
...Hock Tan, the Malaysian-American billionaire who leads Broadcom has been on the hunt for deals to diversify the business after his takeover of chipmaker Qualcomm was thwarted in 2018 by then-president Donald...
...Asawa is best known for her sculptures, airy traceries of woven wire suspended from the ceiling, like clouds dangling in the sky....
...It’s true that the world is a little pinker – new releases include a “Floating Cloud Rainbow Train” and “Baby Mermaid Castle” – but the core collection of red-roof cottages, bushy-tailed squirrels and log...
...The software mega-deal (aka “Project Atlas”) orchestrated by Broadcom’s Hock Tan and PC king Michael Dell could be one of the largest technology deals on record, if reviews by the CMA — which will report...
...Eight years ago the ice melted suddenly along the shore — villagers scrambled in boats to rescue the fishermen floating adrift on icy islands....
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...Can there be a more resonant piece for our statue-bashing era than Magritte’s disembodied cast of Napoleon’s head painted as a cloud, floating away?...
...Grab founder Anthony Tan said the job cuts were not a “shortcut” to profitability. He said the Singapore-based company was on track to break even by the end of the year on an adjusted earnings basis....
...I’ve come close to here before, when visiting St Tropez, but still, the southernmost tip of the Côte d’Azur has always remained elusive, candyfloss cliffs fading into clouds....
...It is also employs an augmented reality app which sees chunks of structure floating about on your phone screen as if in real space....
...Landlords in the student niche, in short, face a decisive period, as demand grows stronger but regulatory uncertainty clouds the outlook for the sector. Can they still do well? Boom time?...
...The performance began with a motif floating over dense piano voicings and drummer Kweku Sumbry working up a dialogue between bass drum and snare....
...Soon after it opened, in the 1990s, I lay on the stone coffin-like structure at the crater’s centre and gazed at scudding clouds, some with reflections of the sea, or so I fancied....
...His exhibition, A Great Light, is a remarkable exploration of glass with jellyfish floating across screens and skulls piled high, with flowers exploding into colour like Warhol silkscreens and mushroom clouds...
...Known as suminagashi, meaning “floating ink”, it is a process in which ink and dispersant are carefully combined in a tray of water before being transferred onto paper to ethereal effect....
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...comes thick and fast in this boutique affair, among them the world premiere of a new chamber suite drawn from Rhiannon Giddens’ opera Omar — Giddens will also perform an acoustic set — a reimagining of Tan...
...A 19th-century paper-doll set from India consists of an androgynous bald head floating in space, waiting to be completed by an assortment of painted outfits and headgear....
...Hock Tan hopes it will do the same for him. Broadcom, the US tech group Tan runs, is closing in on a blockbuster acquisition for the cloud business that could value it at more than $50bn....
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