Amazon and Google are racing each other to acquire and store data on human DNA, with both companies competing for market share in an industry estimated to be worth around $1 billion by 2018. That has led academic institutions and healthcare companies to choose one cloud computing service or the other: Google Genomics or Amazon Web Services. The growth of the industry is due, in part, to the increasing... 

The US software giant Microsoft has announced plans to slash 18,000 jobs from its global workforce in 2015, the largest cuts in the company’s 39-year history. In a statement on Thursday, the company described the shakeup as part of its strategy to streamline business under new CEO Satya Nadella. Layoffs represent about 14 percent of the company’s workforce and will be completed by next June. Nadella,...