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Coforge has announced definitive agreements to acquire Encora from Advent International, Warburg Pincus, and other minority shareholders for an enterprise value of US$2.35 billion. Coforge will fund the US$1.89 billion equity value through a preferential allotment, under which Encora’s shareholders will hold ~20% stake in the combined entity post-close.  Reach out to discuss this topic in depth.  What happened and why now  This acquisition reflects the convergence of two strategic journeys, Coforge’s continued use of acquisitions to be a full-stack, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-focused services provider, and Encora’s sponsor-backed transition from an engineering-heritage firm toward a more enterprise-grade, scaled provider:  For Coforge: engineering-led scale as the backbone of a full-stack AI ambition: Coforge’s inorganic strategy reflects a deliberate “string of pearls” approach, with acquisitions aimed at…

Consoles and PCs now have a powerful new partner offering even more ways to play: the cloud. With Xbox Cloud Gaming, you have access to a huge and dynamic library of the latest and greatest titles, wherever there’s a compatible screen, a stable internet connection, and a cloud-supported Xbox Game Pass subscription. Xbox Cloud Gaming is now out of beta and available with Xbox Game Pass Essential, Premium, and Ultimate subscriptions, meaning it’s easier than ever to check out cloud streaming. Overall cloud gaming hours have gone up 45% since this time last year as the service has rolled out…

Today’s consumers face an incredible assortment of choices when shopping for everything from toothpaste to toys. Profitability depends on catching shoppers in the moment and encouraging them to choose specific products or brands. A customer data platform (CDP) makes this possible by gathering data from numerous online and offline sources to create profiles of individual consumers, which marketers can use for personalized advertising and other positive interactions.CDPs come in standard or real-time versions. The former types use batch processing, providing users with updated data at regular intervals. Their counterparts update data within milliseconds, providing the most current details about people’s…

Delivering secure hot patches Having a policy-driven approach to security helps quickly remediate issues. If, say, a common container layer has a vulnerability, you can build and verify a patch layer and deploy it quickly. There’s no need to patch everything in the container, only the relevant components. Microsoft has been doing this for OS features for some time now as part of its internal Project Copacetic, and it’s extending the process to common runtimes and libraries, building patches with updated packages for tools like Python. As this approach is open source, Microsoft is working to upstream dm-verity into the…

Is Santa Claus real? This Christmas special of The AI Fix podcast sets out to answer that question in the most sensible way possible: by consulting chatbots, Google’s festive killjoys, and the laws of relativistic physics. Your hosts unwrap a festive grab-bag of AI absurdity as Waymo self-driving taxis run over a beloved San Francisco cat, then stage several fresh PR disasters by refusing to cross bridges, block holiday parades, and apparently chauffeur a man hiding in the trunk. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Copilot struggles to find anyone who actually wants to use it, while new research suggests the programmers of the…

We released the fifth edition of our book Advanced Swift a few days ago. You can buy the ebook on the objc.io site. The hardcover print edition is printed and sold by Amazon (amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de). Highlights of the new edition: Fully updated for Swift 5.6 A new Concurrency chapter covering async/await, structured concurrency, and actors New content on property wrappers, result builders, protocols, and generics The print edition is now a hardcover (for the same price) Free update for owners of the ebook A growing book for a growing language Updating the book always turns out to be more…

Murata ID Solutions unveils its newly inaugurated “RFID Experience & Innovation Hub” in Parma, Italy, an advanced laboratory dedicated to IoT (Internet of Things) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology. This cutting-edge environment, housing dedicated spaces for information, dissemination, demonstrations, testing, workshops and vital research activities, enhances Murata’s pioneering role and industry-shaping initiatives in the RFID space. Equipped with RFID technology and real-world application scenarios, the establishment of the new hub enhances the value proposition for Murata’s customers and partners, providing them with a premium environment for co-innovation, product validation, performance testing and advanced technical training on the latest IoT…

Introduction Motorola had a strong year thanks to its Razr foldables, however, the direction of the Edge series left something to be desired. The brand is one of the few available in the US outside of the Apple-Google-Samsung trinity and shouldn’t be overlooked, even when it doesn’t get things 100% right. Motorola’s mostly clean Android implementation and the advanced connectivity features (even on some lower-end models) add to what are already some of the better value-for-money phones on the market. Winners: Motorola Razr series The Razr 60 series – or as it is known in the US, the Razr 2025…

Our blue planet is a Goldilocks world. We’re at just the right distance from the Sun that Earth – like Baby Bear’s porridge – is not too hot or too cold, allowing our planet to be bathed in oceans of liquid water. But further out in our solar system are icy moons that eschew the Goldilocks principle, maintaining oceans and possibly even life far from the Sun. We call them icy moons because their surface, and part of their interior, is made of solid water-ice. There are over 400 icy moons in the solar system – most are teeny moonlets…

Until recently, I held the belief that Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in software development was predominantly suited for greenfield projects. However, the introduction of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) marks a significant shift in this paradigm. MCP emerges as a transformative enabler for legacy modernization—especially for large-scale, long-lived, and complex systems. As part of my exploration into modernizing Bahmni’s codebase, an open-source Hospital Management System and Electronic Medical Record (EMR), I evaluated the use of Model Context Protocol (MCP) to support the migration of legacy display controls. To guide this process, I adopted a workflow that I refer to as…