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Enterprise flash NVMe storage startup E8 Storage raises $12m Series B
Enterprise flash NVMe storage startup E8 Storage, Inc. has raised $12 million Series B in a round led by Accel that included existing investors Magma Venture Partners and Vertex Ventures. Founded in 2014, E8 Storage offers next generation flash storage with a rack-scale architecture for the enterprise and software-defined cloud. The company claims it can ...
Google is investigating an acceptable ads policy to counter the growth of adblockers
Google is said to be investigating the adoption of an acceptable ads policy as a counter to the growing popularity of ad blockers, according to a report Monday. Digiday claims the policy would require ads served on its Adwords and Doubleclick networks are not obtrusive or annoying, enabling ad-blocking companies with what it calls “acceptable ad” ...
Liberty Reserve founder gets 20 years jail and $500k fine for money laundering
Arthur Budovsky, the founder of the now defunct notorious cryptocurrency service Liberty Reserve, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail and fined $500,000 for his involvement in the site. Budovsky, aged 42, pleaded guilty in January to one charge of conspiring to run a money laundering service. At its peak Liberty Reserve was a ...
FTC & FCC investigate mobile device security update practices of telcos and smartphone makers
The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have launched a parallel inquiry into mobile device security updates. As part of the investigation, the FTC has sent please explain requests to eight mobile device manufacturers asking them to provide the agency with information about how they issue security updates to ...
Spotify has announced 12 original television like series
Music streaming service Spotify AB has furthered its push into online video with the announcement of not one, but twelve original television-like series. Each episode of the new shows, which naturally have a focus on music, will be a maximum of 15 minutes and will initially be available to both free and paid users in ...
Palantir Co-founder Joe Londsdale slams Buzzfeed, claims as bad journalism
The Co-founder of Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, Inc. has slammed an alleged exposé published by Buzzfeed that claimed the company was losing major clients, and was struggling with staff and revenue. Buzzfeed’s report, which relied on allegedly confidential internal documentation and interviews with a number of past and present employees, claimed among other ...
Live Nation and NextVR sign deal to stream live concerts in virtual reality
Live virtual reality broadcasting startup NextVR, Inc. has signed a deal with live events firm Live Nation, Inc. to stream concerts live in virtual reality. Under the deal, NextVR will broadcast “hundreds of live, cutting-edge performances in virtual reality to music fans worldwide.” While a list of which performances would be covered under the deal ...
The future is coming: GM/Lyft to trial self-driving electric taxis in 2017
The future is coming and in this case it’s via General Motors Co. and Lyft, Inc. who will begin testing self-driving electric taxis on public roads starting in 2017. According to The Wall Street Journal who broke the story, the details for the trial of the fleet of self-driving Chevrolet Bolt electric taxis is still being worked ...
Windows 10 passes 300m users, will no longer be free as of July 29
Microsoft Corp. announced that its Windows 10 operating system had been installed on 300 million machines Thursday, an achievement that surpassed the install rate of Windows 7 by six months. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella made the announcement at Microsoft’s Build 2016 developer conference, adding that Windows 10 is the “fastest growing version of Windows ...
Netwrix IT Risks Report finds most IT professionals are not confident in their ability to beat cyber risks
IT auditing firm Netwrix Corporation has released the results of their 2016 IT Risks Report, and it makes for sobering reading with only a small number of organizations being confident in their own abilities to ward off cyber attacks. The survey polled 826 IT professionals across 40 industries and organizations over various sizes worldwide, and ...