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The most prominent person to be affected by US President Donald Trump's trade war with China is rarely mentioned in that context. That person is Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates who stands to make a fortune much bigger than he reaped from his software adventures if the tit-for-tat ends and he is able to go ahead with his plan for a new kind of nuclear power reactor.

Global cloud CRM provider Salesforce announced it will buy data analytics vendor Tableau Software for US$15.7 billion in an all-stock deal.

New Zealand cable operator Hawaiki Submarine Cable has extended its presence in the United States from Hillsboro, Oregon, to the Westin Building Exchange carrier hotel and data centre in Seattle, Washington, to support its clients’ capacity requirements between New Zealand, Australia, and the US.

Facilities owned by American telecommunications giant AT&T in eight US cities are being used by the NSA to monitor billions of emails, phone calls and online chats that pass through US territory.

New Zealand computer vision and artificial intelligence solutions provider IMAGR is claiming a world first trial of new artificial intelligence technology that “brings the checkout to the trolley” at an Auckland Foodstuffs store.

Amazon has opened the first of its Amazon Go retail outlets, a store where shoppers can walk in, pick up what they want and walk out without any need to stand in a queue to get the goods scanned.

A 37-year-old man from Seattle has been arrested in connection with distributed denial of service attacks on businesses in Australia, the US and Canada.

Microsoft has once again taken the axe to its shrinking workforce, this time laying off another 2,100 employees as the company moves towards its target of cutting 18,000 staff, or about 14% of its workforce.

F5 Network has expanded its worldwide technical support operations, opening a new Support Centre in Auckland which it says has been established in response to strong demand for Application Delivery Network solutions and services in the ANZ region and a growing partner ecosystem in Asia Pacific.