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Japan’s NTT Data has agreed to buy Dell’s IT-services division for $3.05 billion, its latest effort to seek growth overseas.

Many investors are starting to position themselves for a reversal of a recent market rally.

Cruise Automation, the Silicon Valley autonomous-vehicle startup being acquired by General Motors, is giving job recruits a clearer picture of what its ultimate ambition is and an indication that it will expand.

Diving into IT industry's history is as good a method as any to prepare for the next hot technology, suggests CIO Journal Columnist Irving Wladaswky-Berger. "While there’s no guarantee that historical patterns will continue to apply going forward, they might well be our most important guides as we peer into an otherwise unpredictable future," he writes.

The auto industry is not the first to look beyond the corporate cafeteria for experts—a week barely passes without news of the opening of an innovation lab somewhere. But the vast technological demands for self-driving cars require auto makers to hunt down talent in some of the most exciting areas of computing.

In pursuing its challenge of the Staples and Office Depot merger, the FTC wanted Amazon.com to testify that it wasn’t ready to serve large corporations’ office-supply needs, a statement the company considered untrue.

Banks, under pressure from fintech startups circling their markets, are opening labs and working with new vendors. But some banks have been slow in responding to competitive threats, hampered by an instinct to preserve legacy technology and existing business models.

Advocates of greater female representation in the financial services were relieved to see that the recommendations didn’t include quotas.

In Oracle’s new cloud-with-a-twist offering, customers can still access their data over the Web, from a third party’s server. But to address the concerns of those not quite ready for prime time, that third-party server is physically located in the customer’s own data center and behind its security firewall.

Many Wall Street firms already hold back much of an executive’s bonus for three years, but that lockup period may grow longer once regulators weigh in on the matter in April.

The government’s legal challenge to the planned merger of Staples and Office Depot took an unexpected turn when a federal judge said he was disturbed by allegations that the FTC had sought to alter testimony by Amazon.