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• Twitter acquires machine learning startup Whetlab

  To boost its in-house machine learning efforts, Twitter has acquired Whetlab, a startup that makes it easier for companies to use machine learning tools.

• 'Scroogled' architect Mark Penn to leave Microsoft

  Mark Penn, Microsoft's executive vice president of advertising and strategy, will leave the company in September to open a private equity firm.

• Google-infused storage startup Cohesity reveals itself

  Mohit Aron has a tough act to follow: His previous startup, Nutanix, may be on the cusp of filing for an IPO that values the hyperconverged infrastructure company at $2.5 billion. But Aron is off to a good start with his new venture, Cohesity, which this week emerges from stealth mode with $70 million in venture funding, reference-able customers such as Tribune Media, and a focus on a potentially big market in converging the secondary storage that houses so much DevOps, data protection, analytics and other unstructured data.

• Can GitHub really be worth $2 billion?

  If you’re looking to hire a developer, which is more important: her LinkedIn profile or samples of her code on GitHub?

• HTC will refuse any acquisition offer from Asus

  Asustek Computer may be considering a bid for HTC, but HTC said Monday it wants nothing do with it.

• Asus's Shih leaves the door open to looking at HTC acquisition

  A deal for Taiwanese PC maker Asustek Computer to buy struggling phone-maker HTC makes sense to some, and on Friday Asus's chairman said he wouldn't rule it out.

• Four challenges for Twitter's next CEO

  Dick Costolo has stepped down as CEO of Twitter after five years on the job, relinquishing his post amid longstanding problems including sluggish growth and frequent abusive comments posted to the social network. Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, who is also CEO of Square, will be interim CEO when Costolo steps down on July 1.

• Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, steps down

  Embattled Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, will be leaving the social networking company on July 1, according to an SEC filing the company made public on Thursday.

• Twitter CEO Dick Costolo steps down

  Embattled Twitter CEO Dick Costolo will be leaving the social networking company on July 1, according to an SEC filing the company made public Thursday.

• Microsoft acquires BlueStripe for operations management

  To help enterprise customers better manage applications sprawled across hybrid clouds, Microsoft has purchased BlueStripe Software, a provider of technology for watching over distributed applications.

• Intel to invest US$125 million in startups run by women, minorities

  To encourage diversity in IT, Intel Capital has established a US$125 million investment program targeted at startups run by women and under-represented minorities.

• HP will pay $US100 million to settle Autonomy-related lawsuit

  The ongoing saga surrounding HP's ill-fated Autonomy acquisition continued on Tuesday with the company's announcement that it will pay $US100 million in a settlement agreement with PGGM Vermogensbeheer B.V.

• HDS adds to advanced analytics portfolio with Pentaho buy

  Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) closed its acquisition of data integration, visualization and analytics specialist Pentaho, building on its growing presence in Internet of Things (IoT), operational technology (OT), big data and machine-to-machine (M2M) analytics.

• HDS adds to advanced analytics portfolio with Pentaho buy

  Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) closed its acquisition of data integration, visualization and analytics specialist Pentaho, building on its growing presence in Internet of Things (IoT), operational technology (OT), big data and machine-to-machine (M2M) analytics.

• IE loses stranglehold on the enterprise as Chrome makes major inroads

  Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is about to lose the one market it's had locked up for decades: The enterprise.