What summer vacation? Making up for lost COVID time, companies are cramming events into what is sometimes a slow tech news season, IPOs are heating up, and investors continue make big moves in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
This week VMware Inc. held what might be a last blast for its annual user conference, now called Explore, since it looks likely that its acquisition by Broadcom Inc. looks to close at the end of October. The 25-year-old virtualization giant and its…