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Maya Jama is our ultimate girl crush, thanks to her enviable Love Island wardrobe, candid Instagram post and all round good vibes . To celebrate the presenter turning 30 later this month (on the 14th August, FYI), we caught up with her to chat birthday plans, how to handle hosting pressure and the people she calls when she wants to have fun.

And yes, we do want to be BFFs now.

Hi Maya! What do you think makes a good party?

Hands down, a good playlist, a good group of people, and food! There’s always got to be some sort of food there.

What’s on your party playlist?

We’re gonna throw a little Charli XCX on the playlist. Also, it wouldn’t be a summer playlist at the moment without some GloRilla. I can’t go an hour without blurting out “It’s 7pm Friday, 95 degrees” – it’s just so,…

The mass-market hosting sector is fragmented, under pressure and transforming rapidly, according to a report from Tier1 Research (T1R), a research firm that tracks the hosting and IT infrastructure sector. T1R says the hosting industry is being reshaped by the proliferation of wireless and broadband access, Web-enabled mobile devices, and the movement of personal and business lives to an online environment. This has created growing demand for a wide range of online services that now form a new layer of value that hosters are fighting to deliver to their customers.

“The transformation under way has forced hosters to reconsider old concepts, explore new opportunities and change the way they traditionally do business,” said Philbert Shih, Senior Analyst at T1R and lead author of the…

by Joe Panettieri • Dec 27, 2021

Activist investor Starboard Value has amassed a 6.5% stake in GoDaddy stock, and may plan to push the the cloud computing, hosting and domain registrar company to boost its business performance, The Wall Street Journal reported.

GoDaddy’s market valuation is roughly $12.7 billion. The company has successfully extended beyond domain registration services to offer cloud and e-commerce services designed for small businesses and entrepreneurs. The evolution included acquiring Host Europe Group for roughly $1.8 billion in 2016.

GoDaddy has been particularly attentive to web developers, while also showing the WordPress content management community lots of love. The WordPress focus includes acquiring WP Curve in 2016 and Pagely in November…

Yahoo Finance’s Ines Ferre details some of the stocks on the move Friday.

Video Transcript

KARINA MITCHELL: And Ines, you’re watching Oracle, that stock rocketing today.

INES FERRE: Yeah, that’s right, up 15%, Karina, seeing new highs today after the company reported its quarterly results yesterday after the close. Its topline growth grew 6%, sending the stock higher. As you can see, revenue for its latest quarter came in at $10.36 billion, adjusted earnings per share at $1.21. And its infrastructure and application cloud business grew 22%.

Now what’s most interesting was, really, co-founder Larry Ellison on the conference call saying that he received a call from a large telecom client who told him that Oracle’s web hosting service never, ever goes down. Of course, that was a dig at Amazon…