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Revision3-Discovery Deal Not Likely to Go Down
Revision3 is a veteran independent broadcasting site that shares some common ground with Hulu, with the exception that the startup produces and streams its own content. Web users are showing their appreciation with over 100 million views every month, and they’re also clicking more ads than ever – revenue increased by 53 percent in 2011, ...
Correction: Violin Memory Raises $90 Million at $850m Valuation, IPO Due Soon
{Update: According to SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier, the reported numbers by AllThingsD is a bit low. SiliconANGLE has learned from sources close to the company that Violin’s latest round was actually $90 million at $850 million valuation. Violin is filling a big unmet need in flash memory for new converged infrastructure devices and networks. It’s ...
Signpost Raises $3.5M, Hires Sales VP
Signpost offers an advertising platform to small and medium businesses that resembles Google AdWords in a lot of areas, with the expectation of a fancier-looking dashboard that offers different functionality. That includes metrics with deeper location integration, or at least a bit more visualized than you would expect. There’s also some built-in CMS features such ...
ActiveState Adds Control, Debugging with Stackato 1.2
ActiveState, a software development solutions maker, launched the latest version of its so-called private, development-centric PaaS. The multi-stack, platform-agnostic moto persists, only with a few extra touches that aim to make Stackato a bit better than what it used to be. Version 1.2 features several new additions. One of the major updates is support for ...
Angry Birds, Instagram Reach 50 Million Downloads
Rovio is certainly making the most out of the now out of proportions Angry Bird franchise, from the introduction of micro-transactions to the game’s reincarnation just over a month ago. The top ranking mobile app debuted in its new wrapping as Angry Birds Space late March, and this week the Finnish developer is celebrating a ...
Skype 4.0: New Version, New IP Hack
iOS users got some good news after the weekend cleared with the launch of Skype 4.0, which features a few notable tweaks. First and foremost is the ability to change the location of that tiny square displaying what the other person on the other end of the video call is seeing, which is more of ...
VMware Teams with Piston to Create BOSH for OpenStack
Earlier this month VMware debuted BOSH, an open-source tool (or tool-chain, in the words of the developer) for deploying Cloud Foundry. It also announced plans to make the solution platform agnostic so that the user base won’t be limited to the Cloud Foundry alone, and today we got the first confirmation that the virtualization software ...
Google Drive’s Biggest Virtue May Be its Ecosystem
Google Drive became one of last week’s most talked out tech updates, and a couple of interesting discussions about the launch sprung up as a result. Our very own Kit Dotson raised the issue of piracy and how certain features of the new cloud service could be exploited, potentially leading to a lot of legal ...
Fusion-io Boosts Webair’s Cloud
Flash storage provider Fusion-io recently released another one of its case studies, this time outlining how ioMemory helped data center operator Webair address the growing demands of its customers. Webair previously used traditional disk-based storage systems throughout its facilities in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal and Amsterdam. “One of the key factors in our decision ...
Big Data Helps Find the Cause for MS
The University of Buffalo leverages technology from Revolution R and IBM Netezza to drastically accelerate their research of the potential factors that may be contributing to Multiple Sclerosis, according to a case study the former published last week. Revolution R develops a commercial version of the highly mathematical programming language after which the company was ...