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Data for Breakfast | Global Data & AI Event Series
29 Jan 2026
Join Snowflake’s event to explore how data and agentic intelligence can drive impact across your org. Hear experts, see demos, and leave with actionable insights.
Snowflake Services Delivery | Optimize, Accelerate and Achieve
21 Jan 2026
Learn how Snowflake Services Delivery can help, whether it’s optimizing data architecture or operationalizing data analytics.
Watch Snowflake to Buy App Monitoring Program Observe - Bloomberg
21 Jan 2026
Snowflake plans to buy AI-powered app monitoring startup Observe, part of its push to expand in the IT operations management software market. Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)
Snowflake to acquire Observe to boost observability in AIops | InfoWorld
21 Jan 2026
The acquisition could position Snowflake as a control plane for production AI, giving CIOs visibility across data, models, and infrastructure without the pricing shock of traditional observability stacks, analysts say.
Snowflake brings Google Gemini 3 AI models to Cortex
21 Jan 2026
Snowflake will run Google’s Gemini 3 AI models natively in Cortex, keeping enterprise data in-platform while deepening Google Cloud ties.
Snowflake buys Observe for AI-powered monitoring | CIO Dive
21 Jan 2026
The deal reflects the growing influence of observability as more than a standalone IT tool.
Snowflake CEO Confirms Observe Acquisition To Boost ‘Enterprisewide Observability’
21 Jan 2026
Snowflake confirms acquisition of Observe to boost observability, AI and cloud innovation with CEO Ramaswamy touting the merger.
Snowflake announces its intent to buy observability platform Observe | TechCrunch
21 Jan 2026
Snowflake is bolstering its data stack to make the platform better suited to the sheer volume of data produced by AI agents.
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
