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Gil Shwed is an anachronism: A startup founder who has stayed CEO for three decades, carefully growing his brainchild from nothing into a $2 billion-by-annual-revenue powerhouse, whilst reporting a profit every single quarter along the way. (“Every quarter?” The Stack asks. “Every month,” Check Point’s CEO says softly.) Check
Updated March 20, 10:00am GMT to correct launch vehicle location (within C17 rather than underslung). Aerospace startup Astraius has agreed a key new partnership as it plans its first “air launch” of a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite from Scotland in 2024, using a military transport plane, rather than a
Amazon has open-sourced a new file client for S3 called Mountpoint for Amazon S3 that makes it “easy” for Linux-based applications to connect directly to Amazon S3 buckets and access objects using file APIs – not something that has always been easy or indeed possible for Linux-based large-scale analytics applications. Mountpoint
Lightweight app-layer proxy protocol to power ads for billions of Chrome users
Outgoing US Army CIO Dr Raj Iyer has joined software firm ServiceNow as Head of Global Public Sector. He leaves after a well-regarded and highly modernising two year stint overseeing a $16 billion annual IT budget (including ~$3 billion in software and $1.5 billion in hardware costs) for 1.
Failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) UK has been sold to HSBC for £1 in a major reprieve for the UK's tech startups who faced losing their deposits (over the insured threshold) after its parent company collapsed. "Customers of SVB UK will be able to access their deposits
