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EMC Launches Open-Source Greenplum Community Edition
Today EMC announced it launched an open source community edition of the Greenplum data warehousing software, as well as of other tools and algorithms. This move is aimed to grow Greenpulm’s developer base in order to move it further towards default status in data warehousing. EMC is not the only one competing to stay relevant ...
LinkedIn Updates Ad Options, Facebook Sees Low CTR
LinkedIn recently launched LinkedIn Ads, fresh out of beta and with the addition of specific targeting options for network marketing. The previous advertising options only included limited demographic targeting, like gender, location, industry and various other general categories, whereas the new LinkedIn Ads now also supports targeting around job title, company name and LinkedIn Group-based ...
Egypt Unrest Boosts Al-Jazeera Traffic, Citizens Tweet without Web Access
The Egypt Unrest is a receiving a lot of attention internationally, and from online viewers too. The TV network has seen its web traffic increase 2,500 percent at the time of its reporting about the violent clashes in the country. Twenty-six million minutes of live video were streamed in one Friday night. It’s yet another ...
Sandy Bridge Error Uncovered, Intel takes Hit
Intel has discovered a design error in Cougar Point, the data connection chip supporting Intel’s CPU/GPU hybrid Sandy Bridge microprocessors, specifically in the Core i5 and Core i7 quad-core chips. Intel’s stocks are down one percent after it stopped Sandy Bridge production, a move which will in turn cost it approximately $700 million in revenue. ...
World Bank Winners: Sustainability in the App World
In a follow-up to our initial coverage of the World Bank’s Open Data Initiative, challenging developers to submit apps addressing one of its 8 MDGs, we now reveal the results of this international contest. There were 107 final submissions that became eligible for final voting today, including 20 desktop, 8 mobile and around 77 web ...
Motricity Acquires Adenyo, Expands Mobile Ads Cloud Portfolio
Motricity, a mobile payments integration solutions provider, has signed an agreement to acquire mobile marketing vendor Adenyo for around $100 million. The acquisition will expand Motricity’s offerings portfolio with addition of analytics and metrics. This in turn will enable the delivery of real-time results, meaning faster processes around improved mobile ads. “These new capabilities will ...
Fujitso Partners with Tensilica, Expands Cloud Reach
Today electronics giant Fujitso announced it’s expanding its reach further into the cloud, and partnering up with IP cores and DPUs maker Tensilica. The two companies signed a multi-year corporate license to Tensilica’s audio, baseband DSP (digital signal processor) and dataplane processor units (DPUs). “In the development of our next-generation high-performance mobile terminals, we realized ...
Google Seeks Developers, Android Overthrows Symbian
Google has begun recruiting dozens of Android app developers to boost its open-source mobile platform, which is seeing a significant amount of growth lately. Google product management director Benjamin Ling is leading the recruiting efforts, aimed to significantly increase Google’s in-house developed apps portfolio which now stands at about 20. “Besides the potential of making ...
Egypt Internet Shutdown: Official Figures
Shortly after anti-government protests began in Cairo, Egypt had experienced an unprecedented Internet service cutoff. Only suggestions have been raised regarding the reason behind this still ongoing situation, as well as its implications in context to a potential U.S “Internet kill switch.” Seeing as this is SiliconANGLE, we’re looking at the story from the cloud ...
Google Launches Algorithm to Discourage Scrapers
Google employee Matt Cutts announced in his earlier this week the search giant is considering a new, on-page spam detection technique to reduce spam content – meaning copied or scraped – from appearing in Google Search results. Today however, Cutts released an update in his blog and confirmed the news that this algorithm was already ...