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• Google announced plans to purchase a small Tel Aviv-based startup that helps companies move their internal corporate infrastructure to cloud providers.
• Velostrata has raised $31.5 million since 2014, pitching itself as a service that works with a lot of different providers like AWS, Azure, and — more recently — Google's cloud computing service. 
• This acquisition could mean that Velostrata will no longer offer services that help clients move to competitors. Читать дальше...

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• Meghan Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, will accompany her to the church on the day of the royal wedding.
• Ragland is a yoga instructor and social worker who works specifically with the geriatric community.
• Markle has called her mom a "free spirit" and her "best friend."
  
• Prince Harry has called her "amazing."
• Ragland is reportedly planning an interview with Oprah Winfrey to discuss her and Markle's experiences with racism. Читать дальше...

The feature quilt for the auction, ‘Three Pieces of a Pod,' will likely fetch big bucks when it hits the auction block.

A Parks Department officer was dragged by a pedicab for at least 50 feet Wednesday afternoon in Central Park, sending the cop to the hospital, authorities said. The female Parks Enforcement Patrol officer and her partner stopped the pedicab driver to issue him a summons near West 66th Street and Central Park West around 1:10...

It's the Magic Shell from hell.

A truck containing 12 tons of liquid milk chocolate overturned on a Polish highway on Wednesday, coating the road in sticky candy goop. Now, crews are struggling to clean it all up because it's hardening onto the asphalt. Fun!

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According to the New York Times, the secret weapon for this type of situation is hot water, which is now being sprayed onto the street to re-melt the chocolate. Cleanup is expected to take several hours... Читать дальше...

Three well-meaning people suffered bites when the kittens they rescued after hearing them mewling in a San Antonio alley turned out to be ravenous bobcat cubs .

Brighton & Hove failed to crash the Manchester City party as records tumbled for the champions at the Eithad Stadium tonight.

Jeremiah Raber’s products can stop speeding bullets — but the Cardinals only want them to stop speeding baseballs. Raber is proprietor of a Missouri company called Nutshellz, which manufactures high-tech, super-protective athletic cups — and the Cardinals reportedly have reached out to him in the wake of catcher Yadier Molina taking a 102-mph foul ball...

Chris Froome said he expects sparks to fly on the Giro d'Italia sixth stage on the volcanic slopes of Mount Etna as the Sky Team leader bids to reignite his bid for a third successive Grand Tour victory.

Michael Chandler criticizes Dillon Danis’ performance at Bellator 198 and his desperate imitation of Conor McGregor.

Recently, President Donald Trump said this about his new attorney, Rudy Guiliani: “He’s new on the job. He’s getting his facts straight.”

The KazanSummit Russia-Islamic World international economic summit that unites about 3,000 guests from more than 50 countries opens in Kazan this Thursday and will last three days, according to the summit’s organizing committee.

JOHANNESBURG – The first and last positions might be decided already but there is plenty to fight for on the last day of the Absa Premiership.