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Facebook Data Science Team Announces Open Source Tools for A/B Testing
Facebook is continuing their mission of donating goodness to the community with the release of sourcr code called PlanOut. PlanOut is used for online A/B testing experiments. This is a great move for Facebook, developers, and the data community. As we talk about on SiliconANGLE Wikibon and theCUBE is that Data science is the hottest ...
Cloudera raises monster round of $900 million; $740M from Intel for 18 percent
Cloudera announced that they raised a total of $900 million in equity in a private round of funding. Notable was the monster investment from Intel a whopping $740 million. Reuters reports that this investment was for an 18 percent stake roughly 4.1 billion valuation. Last week everyone was talking when Intel said their investment in ...
International Academic Conference looking For industry practitioners to present on “BigData”
An International academic conference on big data management system is looking to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in sharing and presenting their perspectives on the effective management of Big Data systems. The conference’s Chair Prof. Karsten Schwan directs the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) at Georgia Tech. His ...
Arizona Anti Gay Law #SB1062 In Full Rage Debate – WTF
People are shocked that Arizona is considering this anti gay law #SB1062 I’ve created a CrowdChat to bring in the public conversation for an “on the record” crowd chat. www.crowdchat.net/sb1062 Public Chat Live Right Now – See Real Time Embed Below of CrowdChat in action. Login to Crowdchat participate with Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook ...
Breaking News: Roku Preparing To Go Public
According to Bloomberg report, Roku is preparing to go public later this year. Bloomberg reporter says that a decision to move ahead hasn’t been made, and the Saratoga, California-based company hasn’t selected a lead banker, according to one of their sources who requested anonymity because the discussions are private. The Roku player leverages video from ...
HP Earnings Shows CEO Whitman Turning Things Around
Hewlett-Packard announced earnings that is looking like the turnaround is happening. CEO Meg Whitman is pushing her plan forward. On Thursday, the company turned in increase in the quarterly earnings which shows investors that the company’s ship is turning in the right direction or at least back on track to solid fundamentals. This marks the ...
Breaking news: Facebook buys WhatsApp for $19 billion
An SEC filing discovered on Facebook says that the social network is buying WhatsApp for $19 billion, which includes retention bonuses. Facebook’s press release is here. WhatsApp has built a leading and rapidly growing real-time mobile messaging service, with: . Over 450 million people using the service each month; 70 percent of those people active on ...
HP puts senior execs in Cloud group : Bethany Mayer in charge
According the leaked memo, Hewlett-Packard is reassigning Bethany Mayer, who was heading up HP Networking, to a new role as SVP/GM of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) (definition: Wikibon) a strategic portion of the new cloud initiative formally run by Saar Gillai now by Martin Fink (all three are Cube Alumni guests). I’ve interviewed Bethany many times – ...
Opinion: Twitter’s Just Did Smart Thing – Focus on User Experience Not Timeline Impressions #twtr
Yesterday, in Twitter’s historical first earnings call, I live tweeted @dickc Dick Costello comments. Of all his comments, my favorite was when he said “Twitter is global public, real-time, conversation, distributed, and unfiltered.” As a side note, I’m fairly certain that SiliconANGLE was the only outlet live tweeting Twitter’s earnings call. There is an management expression ...
CrowdChat: the crowd gives Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella a thumbs up #techathlete
Microsoft had a moment of history appointing their third CEO, Satya Nadella. The crowd commentary was in full force and we captured it “on the record” via the new CrowdChat app which is in beta preview. In a flash mob #microsoft crowd chat held today from 9 am to 3 pm PST on CrowdChat.net/Microsoft, the ...