Tech Hoarders: 15 companies sitting on billions in cash

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	Can anybody catch Amazon? It is quite a stretch for most cloud service providers to match the geographical reach of Amazon Web Services. Read More WEBCAST: OutSystems The Path to a High Performance IT Is your corporate IT department spending most of its time working to keep the lights on (KTLO)? This 20 minute webinar will shed some light on the real KTLO culprit and offer practical advice to help you dig out and put your IT on the path to high performance. View Now In this Issue Top 10 Amazon cloud challengers Linux and Desktop Environments: Change is uncomfortable Top tech hoarders: 15 companies with huge cash piles WHITE PAPER: Mitel Networks Computerworld Report: Wrangling Your Mobile Devices This report looks at how IT executives at companies large and small are learning to embrace the mobile device trend, by rethinking their strategies, hammering out new policies and locking down their critical data. Learn More Top 10 Amazon cloud challengers Here are 10 companies that could challenge Amazon's dominance in the cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: Verizon Top Benefits of M2M Data Analytics A recent Computerworld survey reveals that the combination of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and the cloud will meet growing storage requirements, improve customer service and ensure better governance. Learn More Linux and Desktop Environments: Change is uncomfortable Operating Systems tend to live and die by the dedication of their users. People, like you and me, grow accustomed to using computers in a particular way. How our file system is laid out, what the desktop looks like, what applications we use to get work done - over time we become used to every nuance of our systems. RELATED: 10 amazing Linux desktop environments you've probably never seen Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Why Mobilizing Windows Apps is Simpler Than You Think A successful enterprise mobility strategy places priority on applications first, mapping their mission to the variety of use cases out in the field. Success with mobilizing Microsoft® Windows® applications also requires a broad technology approach. This paper describes how you can simplify application mobilization with Citrix. Learn More Top tech hoarders: 15 companies with huge cash piles Major tech stalwarts, including Apple, Microsoft, Google and Cisco, rank among the most cash-rich companies in the world. They've got billions -- in the form of cash and short-term investments -- to spend on acquisitions, R&D, stock buybacks, dividends and more. Here's how they rank. Read More
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