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Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 8: CoinLab vs MtGox Lawsuit, Coinbase $5M Investment Funding, Bitbox and Crypto.st New Exchanges
The news for Bitcoin during the past week has been part lawsuit, part awesome funding, and part the rise of new exchanges to add into the already thickening ecosystem. Right now, CoinLab and MtGox had a partnership that went sour and ended with acrimonious legal proceedings—to the tune of $75 million in damages. Coinbase has ...
Pivotal Embraces Outside Cloud Providers and Open Source Philosophy Just Good Dev Buisness #emcworld
EMC’s Pivotal seeks to expand out into providing platforms that will give enterprise the ability to take advantage of big data analytics in the cloud—by adding the advantage of using VMware cloud, AWS, or OpenStack—and this also represents a move by VMware and EMC to embrace open source and open clouds. Both VMware and EMC ...
Kevin Mack Adds Abstract Generative Sculptures to 3D Printed Designs
Slowly but surely, 3D printing is becoming a part of how computer-generated-art intersects with reality (in the same way it will cause a collision for copyright vs. reality and gun control with culture) and adding to the newest reification of computer-aided design and sculpture is Kevin Mack’s upcoming show at the PS ZACK art gallery. ...
AWS Summit: How the Cloud and DevOps Begin to Mingle
The leap to the cloud has dramatically changed how both development and operations work in the enterprise; but one thing that it’s done in a very fundamental sense is bring down the overhead from the mesosphere of expensive in-house private infrastructure into the troposphere with the cloud. Amazon Web Services puts startups and small groups ...
Layer 7 CSO Dimitri Sirota Talks API Management Frameworks and You: The Evolving World of DevOps Data
I recently had the change to speak with Dimitri Sirota, the Chief Strategy Officer ands co-founder of Layer 7—recently acquired by leading IT acceleration company CA Technologies—about the role of API management frameworks in the enterprise and DevOps spaces and here’s the takeaway: APIs are the new web, reflecting a trend in the enterprise culture ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 1: Jeremy Liew on BTC, CEO of Braintree dismisses Bitcoins, BBC UK publishes awesome segment
This has been a relatively calm week for Bitcoin, but even as there’s no storm, no sudden bubble in price, or massive volatility to report—there’s a great deal of media attention simmering in the pot. Not only has major reportage become a mainstay of looking at BTC coverage, but outfits such as Wall Street Journal, ...
Ask DevOps: Hyperscale News Round Up, Where Do We Fit In?
In a fairly common sense, hyperscale is the practice of making sure that too much of a good thing doesn’t become a bad thing. Recently, it’s become a bright-and-steady buzz word in the enterprise IT sphere because it’s an important way to deal with the ebb and flow of attention to app infrastructure. In their ...
PayPal President Makes Surprise Commentary About Bitcoin: “We’re kinda thinking about it”
Wednesday, David Marcus, president of EBay Inc.’s PayPal unit, spoke to a Bloomberg interviewer on camera about mobile payment security and during the discussion commented—albeit briefly—on the position of the virtual currency Bitcoin. In the discussion, he mentioned his own fascination with the currency and that his company is “thinking about it” when it comes ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 April 24: Bitfloor Bites the Dust, MoneyGram and Western Union Ponder BTC, MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles On Reuters TV
This week the bitcoin markets continue to recover from the crash from $266 unto $50 (although it didn’t linger there for long before gaining to near $100) recent trades have put the value around $130. Over the weekend, MtGox had a little bit of paranoia about DDoS attacks–as are becoming evermore common–but nothing came of ...
Zooz Closes $2M Series A Funding: Making Mobile Payments Easier Worldwide
ZooZ, the startup company that offers a complete, secure, and easy-to-use payment solution for e-commerce websites and mobile apps, has secured a $2M Series A funding led by Portola Valley, CA-based XSeed. Capital, with participation from existing investors lool ventures and Rhodium, both of which also contributed to ZooZ’s seed round. “Our ability to close ...