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Twitch Twilight Zone: How Google vs Amazon would use Twitch data
The news just came down that Amazon.com, Inc. will be buying Twitch for $970 million. This news comes right after rumors of a one billion dollar deal from Google to buy the video game live streaming website. Google’s offer led to a great deal of ruffled feathers and speculation about the future. Live stream viewers ...
DevOps synchronizing files without the cloud with BitTorrent Sync 1.4
Today BitTorrent, Inc. announced BitTorrent Sync 1.4, a distributed peer-to-peer file synchronization platform that allows for large scale file sharing without the need for a central or cloud server. The file sharing platform is still in beta, but is free to download and try. Individuals and large or small organizations often find themselves in need ...
Sony PlayStation Network, other gaming networks blasted with DDoS attacks
Over the weekend the PlayStation Network, Microsoft’s Xbox Live, Blizzard’s Battle.net, and Grinding Gears Games reported massive network disruptions caused by large scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks occurred around the same time that a bomb threat was made against an American Airlines plane carrying John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment. ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 20: BTC-e market price ‘flash crash’, blockchain API news from Coinbase, Block.io, and Chain
This week, Monday saw the bitcoin market value experience an odd dip known as a “flash crash” when market price fell almost 12 percent. Coinbase has acquired the talent behind blockchain explorer Blockr.io; and, entirely separately, Block.io just launched a new developer-centric wallet service with dev tools and an API—offering 0 percent transaction fees for ...
EnterpriseDB seeks to bridge structured and unstructured data with free PostgreSQL AWS dev kit
EnterpriseDB Corporation has announced the release of a new suite of developer tools for Amazon Web Services that will enable the next generation of Web 2.0 applications built atop the NoSQL capabilities with the open-source database PostgreSQL. This new dev environment, the Postgres Extended Datatype Developer Kit (PGXDK), is designed for developers of any skill ...
Coinbase grows Bitcoin talent and tools with acquisition of Blockr.io
Coinbase, Bitcoin wallet and merchant payment processing company, just publicized another talent acquisition today with the announcement of the buy of blockchain explorer Blockr.io. As part of the acquisition two talented engineers from Blockr.io will join the Coinbase team: software engineer Sašo Matejina and designer Samo Drole. The two engineers will be working to extend the ...
Performance trends thrive in Big Data DevOps | HP Vertica event highlights
Modern business produces data from everything it does, and a great deal of that data arises in forms that normal, everyday databases do not handle very well. The result is that much of that data is dismissed or lost into the ether because either it cannot be stored, or it cannot be readily queried. With ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 13: Blockchain exceeds 2 million users, ChangeTip expands social networks, Britain and regulation, and a Chinese mining operation
Blockchain’s wallet service exceeded two million users this week, showing a clear continuing interest in Bitcoin. Tipping in bitcoin has extended beyond Reddit bots and into social media in general as ChangeTip expands out into YouTube, G+, and Twitter. Britain could be looking into regulating Bitcoin as money instead of property as favorable words are ...
Splunk adds real-time streaming capture of over-the-wire data
Splunk, Inc. today announced the general availability of the Splunk App for Stream—a new software-based approach to capturing real-time streaming wire data directly from the network. Wire data is information captured by the network as sent by applications. Splunk App for Stream can be deployed into the cloud or attached to virtual machines, making it ...
Blockchain bitcoin wallet two millionth user signals ever-increasing adoption
Today, Blockchain.info proudly announced it has surpassed two million wallet users. This makes Blockchain the first in the industry to pass this milestone. In late October 2013, Blockchain.info hit 500,000 users; then January this year Blockchain.info announced one million wallet users. A little over six months later and the site has exceeded two million. Part ...