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Some pricing information has surfaced regarding AMD's upcoming FX-9000 series CPUs, and they are expensive.

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A cyberdrill for financial services companies that was originally to be conducted on June 28 has drawn such a strong response that the organization sponsoring it has had to reschedule the event. "Given the industry's robust interest in this program and the expanding number of individuals who wish to participate, we are working to reschedule the exercise from June 28th to a little later this summer," said Liz Pierce, spokesperson for the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. The exercise will likely be pushed back to July.

Money: It makes the world go 'round, as they say. This week, All Things Appy takes a look at the five best free Windows 8 apps related to money. If you need to keep on top of your finances, these five are must-haves and will get the job done not just efficiently but, in all cases, elegantly, too. Apps are available in the Windows 8 Store on your Windows machine. Click on the Start page tile labeled Store, and browse to the Finance category. Alternatively, search by moving your mouse or finger.

As mobile devices like smartphones and tablets take over many computing tasks from traditional desktops or laptops, they're also changing the way we consume entertainment. In the past year alone, video-watching on mobile devices has doubled. And only recently, tablets have passed smartphones as the most popular type of device to watch video on. Here's a look at mobile video's growth from BI Intelligence. Join the conversation about this story »

Open source giant Red Hat today reported its first quarter financial performance for its 2014 fiscal year, including revenue of $363 million. Analysts had predicted that Red Hat would earn revenues of $360 million. The company’s earnings per share was not disclosed, but analysts expected an EPS of $0.31. In regular trading, Red Hat was slightly down. In after hours, the company is up by 2%. Red Hat highlighted its growing subscription revenue as a reason for it’s solid results. The company’s subscription revenue rose 19% year over year to $303 million in Q1 2014. Last quarter, Red Hat missed estimates, but aside from that stumble, the company has seen steady revenue growth over the past year. Despite this fact, shareholders do not appear impressed; Red Hat’s stock price has declined this year and last, from highs of $60 per share to today’s $46.63. Recently, Red Hat announced a $300 million stock buyback program. According to the company, the stock may be purchased either from the public market, or “in privately negotiated transactions.” Image: Leonid Mamchenkov via Flickr

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VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger is comfortable with the fact that Amazon got a major head start in running Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). But in that game, he doesn’t believe one size fits all. “It’s hard for Amazon to reach into the enterprise,” he told GigaOM Founder and Senior Writer Om Malik during a talk at our Structure conference on Wednesday. By comparison, Gelsinger said his company “has an extraordinary leadership position already.” He expects VMware’s recently revealed public cloud, known as vCloud Hybrid Service, to get plenty of business from large companies that are deep into the VMware world but see value in being able to call on scaled-out shared infrastructure whenever that’s necessary. That could open up the potential for new sorts of applications, part running on premise, part running in the public cloud, he said. When Om wondered aloud if it wouldn’t be easier for Amazon to get into the enterprise than for VMware to get to a very strong public-cloud position, Gelsinger came back quickly with sentiment to the contrary he’s heard from a chief information officer of one of the top 10 banks in the world. “They (Amazon) just don’t get whats going to be required to deliver enterprise-grade services for those customers,” Gelsinger said. On top of that, VMware thinks it’s uniquely positioned to work closely with service providers abroad to enable them to offer IaaS and Platform as a Service (PaaS). “How successful are Google and Amazon going to be in China? It’s just not going to happen on their service,” he said. VMware might not grow overnight from hybrid cloud and other new services. But Gelsinger said the company expects the company’s growth rate to accelerate in the next couple of years. That could be all well and good because it’s still early in the cloud game, not to mention in the area of network virtualization, where VMware is looking to make a serious dent as well in its grand software-defined data center vision. Check out the rest of our Structure 2013 live coverage here, and a video embed of the session follows below: Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.The fourth quarter of 2012 in cloudCloud and data third-quarter 2012Platform as a Service in 2012

This week all eyes are on the cloud, as our Structure conference kicks off in San Francisco. If you can’t join us at Mission Bay Conference Center, be sure to follow our live blog coverage on GigaOM, and, of course, we’ll be tweeting some of our favorite conference moments from @gigaom. In the meantime check out our latest batch of job listings: GigaOM: Sales Manager/Sales Director, GigaOM Research (San Francisco, tri-state, Bay Area) Citizen, Inc.: Technical Writer (Seattle) Expect Labs: Front-End Software Engineer (San Francisco) ICrossing: Senior Software Engineer (Chicago) We also have listings from companies like Microsoft, Akamai Technologies, Platfora and more. Click here to see what else is on our job board. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.Flash analysis: Xbox OneSurvey: How apps can solve photo managementSocial networks will displace business processes, not socialize them