Hortonworks, Inc. has acquired SequenceIQ, Inc., an open source provider of rapid deployment tools for Hadoop, for an undisclosed price. Based in Budapest, Hungary, SequenceIQ gives organizations the ability to deploy secure and elastic Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) clusters in a consistent manner across the entire analytics application lifecycle. The service is said to be ...

Google’s upcoming mobile virtual network operating (MVNO) play may be known as “Project Fi” and offer pay per gigabyte plans, according a report today. Android Police claims in a post to have discovered an app for the service named Tycho, an account management app for the service that is similar to ones used by existing ...

3D Robotic’s Inc has today launched Solo, a new drone that it claims is the world’s first smart drone. The drone comes with two integrated Linux computers, one on the craft itself, and one in the controller that provide both autonomous flight and camera control. Solo is said to delivers several world-first technologies, including unfettered in-flight ...

LinkedIn Corporation has today launched Elevate, a new app that encourages employees to share content from the companies they work for. Available on both iOS and Android, along with a desktop version, the app lets businesses share content with their employees, who, in theory, will be encouraged to share said content with their networks. The ...

Twitter Inc. may be ready to up the ante when it comes to grabbing new users with a new directory currently being A/B tested on its front page. The new directory, best described as being reminiscent of a Yahoo style, offers links to users on Twitter in various categories, including Comedians, Cute Animals, Celebrity Chefs ...

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA,) the representative group for game publishers, has come out against an attempt by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) that would allow abandoned games requiring online verification to be preserved for further use. In 2015 many games released require online verification to be played, even if the game itself is not an ...

Amazon Inc. has announced the launch of its Amazon Elastic File System (EFS,) their newest service for clients of Amazon Web Services (AWS.) Amazon’s EFS is a file storage service for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, that allows users to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. Storage capacity is elastic, growing ...

LinkedIn Corporation has entered an agreement to acquire old school online education site Lynda.com. According to the official release, the transaction is valued at approximately $1.5 billion, in a combination of approximately 52 percent cash and approximately 48 percent stock. The deal may be subject to adjustment and is expected to close during the second ...

Chinese drone maker DJI has launched a new update to their Phantom line of drones, the Phantom 3, that offers live streaming along with a number of other new features. The Phantom 3 is being offered in two models, the Professional and the Advanced that are priced at $1,250 and $999 respectively. Both drones for the ...

Still relatively unknown in the West, Xiaomi Inc. is China’s hottest tech startup, and not just due to it also being the world’s most highly valued tech startup (the only one worth more than Uber Inc.,) but also because it really, really knows how to sell phones. To celebrate its fifth anniversary the company on Wednesday ...