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Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 6th: Thomson Reuters Eikon adds Bitcoin to index, Overstock.com to pay bonuses in BTC, Wikipedia and Twitch to accept bitcoin payments
Step aside Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters Eikon is adding Bitcoin to its market index—and citing popular customer demand as well as expanded interest in the cryptocurrency as reasons why. This last week, Overstock.com also consolidated its Bitcoin-friendly position when its CEO mentioned expanding BTC payments to international customers; and the company is also planning to offer ...
Splunk courts cloud DevOps with 33% price cut and developer sandbox
In the world of cloud and mobile, businesses have discovered the power of DevOps and continuous uptime. DevOps already provides a consistent paradigm for viewing continuous deployment of software by pushing automation as a path to speed delivery through each stage; but on the operational side being able to predict, prevent, or recover from flaws ...
Mozilla Developer Network accidentally exposes thousands of e-mails, password hashes
Last Friday, Mozilla reported the accidental release of the e-mails of 76,000 Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) users to the public alongside the encrypted passwords of 4,000 users. The disclosure happened due to the failure of a data sanitization process at the MDN site starting on June 23rd and lasting a period of 30 days. Mozilla ...
Moogsoft raises $11.3 million for continuous availability through DevOps
For some time now, the DevOps discussion has been dominated by the paradigm of continuous delivery—develop, test, deploy in an uninterrupted cycle—but Moogsoft Inc. believes that the next stage of DevOps is pushing into continuous availability. The position that DevOps holds in the industry is surrounded by services, cloud and mobile and this means services ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 31: Blockchain.info returns to iOS App Store, Ben Lawsky’s “BitLicense” shredded, Coinsetter launches, Stradivarius violin traded for bitcoin
The long-term drought of Bitcoin-related apps in the iOS App Store is coming to an end after Apple changed its terms of service to be friendlier to apps that trade in virtual currency. The first app to return to the App Store is Blockchain.info, are Coinbase and Coinjar far behind? The NYDFS “BitLicense” reactions are ...
Blockchain.info back in the App Store heralds good news for Apple and Bitcoin
Apple and Bitcoin have had a tumultuous relationship in the past. In late 2013, Apple pulled the Coinbase and Coinjar apps from the App Store and in February 2014, Blockchain.info found its app also yanked. This apparent hostility to Bitcoin-related apps was taken by the community as hostility directed at Bitcoin and the community itself. ...
DevOps Weekly Round-Up: Automation with Chef and Docker breathes life into virtualized containers
This week in DevOps shows an ongoing expansion of opportunities for DevOps teams, IT teams, and developers to leverage open source and vendor-specific API models. Configuration and automation remains the big draw for DevOps needs, but virtual containers (via Docker and others) are becoming more visible. Chef Software, Inc. continues to release expanded abilities permitting ...
Big Data needs drive R as a powerful enterprise ready language
As Big Data continues to reach larger enterprise adoption, the programming languages that support writing schema and producing Big Data analysis algorithms will rush to keep up. As a result, the open source statistical language R has become a go-to skill for Big Data scientists and developers, with its popularity soaring amid languages and skills. ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 23: Bitcoin Girl, Winklevoss Bitcoin Index API, NYC Yellow Taxi and Bitcoin, Newegg 10% promotion, and more
Recent weeks have seen some fairly good adoption news for Bitcoin with new businesses climbing on board—most important computer giant Dell—and the market price has stayed relatively stable, residing within the $610 to $630 band. The last major market upheaval being the sale of the US Marshals Service sized Silk Road bitcoins. This week, check ...
Docker ships virtual container DevOps and orchestration with Orchard acquisition
Docker, Inc., the commercial sponsor for the Docker open source project, just announced the acquisition of Orchard Laboratories, Ltd. For an undisclosed amount. Orchard has a long history with Docker as a creator of solutions for Docker that include a hosting service and Fig, an application composition and orchestration tool. About the acquisition, Ben Golub, ...