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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 ...
This Week in Big Data: Cloudera and VMware Enter the Frey
This past week in big data has been a pretty exciting one, with some product launches and a milestone acquisition by VMware. First up is Cloudera, which is not exactly new to the big data business. It did, however, jump on the announcement bandwagon earlier this week with the roll out of CDH4, its fourth ...
This Week in Cloud: Remote Storage Regains Interest
The concept of offering users online hosting that they can use to hold their personal files and data is nothing new. In fact, it has been almost completely milked out in the past couple of years. This week freshened things up a bit. We’ve seen some spirit being put back into this area by a ...