Google announced today that it will buy the cyber security company Mandiant for $5.4 billion in cash, due to the strong growth of its business in the cloud computing segment. Google, which owns Alphabet, has offered a price of $23 per share, which is a premium of about 53 percent compared to the price of Mandiant shares before media reports that rival Microsoft is considering buying the cyber company, Reuters reports. The acquisition could strengthen Google's cloud business, which generates more than $19 billion a year but loses billions of dollars a year, and help the company compete in... … Read More »

At the end of 2021 alone, Germany lacked as many as 96,000 experts from the IT industry. Once Facebook, and now Meta, when we talk about the company, but not about the social network that kept its name - it has big plans for 2022, at least judging by what is being talked about and written about these days. As we wrote last year, Mark Zuckerberg's empire wants to focus on the Metaverse in the future, with people already starting to pay millions of dollars for virtual land. Also, Facebook, or Meta, was a pioneer in telecommuting when the pandemic began, maintaining the view that such a regime... … Read More »

The term "employer brand" was first used in 1990 by Simon Barrow, president of People in Business, and since then, there have been many different definitions in the last 30 years. During the last decade, employer branding, ie. employer branding has become a hot topic for many companies in the region. But being a topic within a company does not necessarily mean giving it priority or fully understanding what it is all about. In this text, we will try to explain what employer branding really is. How do we define the goals, what are the typical challenges, how to start the whole process and how to... … Read More »

Although there is evidence that the NFT market is slowly stabilizing, there are currently no worrying elements when it comes to prices and sales. The average selling price of irreplaceable tokens fell below $2,000 for the first time, compared to a maximum price of nearly $6,900 on Jan. 2. This is information from the NonFungible site, which tracks industry statistics. The data also show that total daily sales averaged $26.2 million during March 3rd. It is interesting that since February 24, when Russia's military action in Ukraine began, the average selling price of NFTs has dropped by about... … Read More »

Securing the cloud storage system will become significantly more efficient, thanks to a new update released by Google. The company is updating its Google Drive platform to allow users to track external activities in their logs. This should help administrators detect suspicious and unauthorized actions by external users, including attempts to copy, move, or modify data. In this way, essential business information will be kept secure. Google points out that the feature will be turned on by default, and is delivered to all Google Workplace users who have the Drive audit log turned on. This is the... … Read More »

Starting next month, Google Workspace users will no longer have the classic Hangouts messaging service as part of the transition to Google Chat. Google has announced that it will make Google Chat the default chat application from March 22nd. This means that users will be redirected to Chat when they try to visit Hangouts in Gmail for the web or when they try to use the old Hangouts mobile app. Switching from Google Hangouts to Google Chat is Google's latest step in the process of evolving its messaging strategy. Google Chat should not be confused with the GChat service, which is the unofficial... … Read More »