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Oracle Cloud Volunteer Screening Registry is a Key Part of the NIH’s COVID-19 Prevention Network

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Oracle Cloud has partnered with the NIH to build a COVID-19 Volunteer Screening Registry in order to screen millions of volunteers eager to participate in hundreds of clinical trials by year’s end. This will no doubt put Oracle’s cloud capabilities to the test — we’re betting the company is up for the challenge.

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What the Massive Twitter Hack Means for CISOs and Security Vendors

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The massive Twitter hack this past week was a wake-up call for many of the vulnerabilities our collective reliance on social media channels presents. Here is a short overview of the specifics that have been uncovered as a result of investigation by the FBI, lawmakers, cybersecurity experts and Twitter itself, as well as what the impact of a hack of this nature means for CISOs and their security vendor partners.

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Analog Devices Acquires Maxim in an Underwhelming $21 Billion Bet

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ADI is heading into headwinds in attaining full value from the network infrastructure silicon portion of the Maxim portfolio and is dealing with significant supply chain assimilation challenges, thereby dampening the upside of the overall deal. ADI needs to prioritize touting new wins in the network infrastructure segment (i.e., data center, 5G communications) post-merger to allay addressable market concerns and likewise rapidly implement its supply chain optimization strategy.

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Google Announces Digital Job Training Program to Help with Economic Recovery

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Grow with Google is designed to help jumpstart the economy by helping workers learn skills that will make them more appealing to employers (college degrees not required), and also to help employers fill what is often a gigantic skills gap. As part of this initiative, Google is offering grants, offering apprenticeship positions at Google, expanding its IT Certificate Employer Consortium and more. The future of work continues to be about an always-learning mindset, individually and in the business world, and this is another way Big Tech is stepping up to make that possible.