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• A close call: Why Trade Me chose Google's cloud over AWS

  ​When New Zealand's home-grown marketplace website Trade Me decided to embrace the cloud, it faced a tough platform choice between Amazon Web Services and Google.

• Australia and New Zealand are signing up for an international tax on the tech giants — but will it be enough?

  The scheme is designed to “create a single set of consensus-based international tax rules” to address the problem of multinational companies moving profits to low-tax jurisdictions.

• Why worry with Windows 11 when the market has Chromebooks (and Chrome OS)?

  What does Windows 11 really bring to the table? Better security (maybe) and Android compatibility, yes. But don't Chromebooks already have that covered?

• Carbonize appoints Tech Data as first A/NZ distributor

  ​Tech Data has added cloud-based application modernisation vendor Carbonize to its Australian and New Zealand portfolio.

• Spark NZ continues to beat Amazon in the Kiwi IaaS arena

  Spark NZ has once again beaten global tech giant Amazon in terms of both market share and revenue in the local infrastructure-as-a-service public cloud services market for 2020.

• Serverless in the cloud: AWS vs. Google Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure

  With AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions, a little bit of business logic can go a very long way

• What's keeping enterprises from using G Suite?

  While Google has spent the past year trying to woo enterprises to its G Suite productivity service, it’s still the underdog compared to Microsoft Office, at least among large businesses. So what’s keeping it from broader appeal?

• How Google overtook Apple in education

  Apple's longtime lock on the education market began to fall apart when Google first introduced Chromebooks more than five years ago. Here's how Google swept in and started to push Apple out.

• The 5 funniest Google Assistant responses

  Google’s new digital assistant – called Google Assistant – has upped the level of A.I. available to regular phone users thanks to the new Google Pixel phone and the Allo chat app. It assistant offers more than just voice recognition – it understands the context of what you’re saying. We suspect that the developers have also had some fun baking in some tongue-in-cheek responses.

• I switched to Google's Pixel phone and survived

  Google tried to simplify the process of moving to a Pixel from the iPhone. Here's how that shook out for one Apple die-hard.

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  Case Study | Partner initiative boosts reseller into Google’s top 10 results

  If you believe your website is not serving your needs as well as it could be but don’t know where to begin correcting the issues, SAP has provided a case study that delves into Synchrony’s story and how NEXTGEN’s agency Bang was able to reinvent the company’s digital presence.