Klint Finley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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5 Geolocation APIs You May Not Have Heard Of

By Klint Finley Nov 16, 2011

If you follow the tech space, you’re probably already familiar with the big geolocation services and know that they have APIs – things like Google Maps, Foursquare, Bing Maps and even the Twitter Geolocation…

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Game Lab: A New Fund for the Open Web Game Ecosystem

By Klint Finley Nov 15, 2011

Boston based venture capital firm Atlas Venture and consulting firm Bocoup have launched Game Lab, a new fund for companies building technologies that will advance the development of video games with HMTL5 on the…

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Android 4.0/Ice Cream Sandwich Open Sourced, But is Google Still Open Washing?

By Klint Finley Nov 14, 2011

Google has released the code Android 4.0, better known as Ice Cream Sandwich. Google delayed releasing the code for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), which criticism from some open source advocates. The acquisition of Motorola furthered…

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Salesforce.com Acquires Cloud Consulting Company Model Metrics

By Klint Finley Nov 14, 2011

At Dreamforce this year Salesforce.com executives said the company is taking a more consultative role. The company is making good on that promise today with an agreement to acquire Model Metrics, a social cloud…

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Survey: Nearly Half of Businesses Received No Leads from Social Media Campaigns

By Klint Finley Nov 14, 2011

Last week I mentioned I was a bit grouchy about the failures of social business. Here’s an example of why: 42% of the respondents haven’t generated any leads from their social media campaigns, according…

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ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick Launches Stealth Social Media Startup Plexus Engine

By Klint Finley Nov 11, 2011

This morning ReadWriteWeb Vice President of Content Development Marshall Kirkpatrick announced that he is stepping back from full-time involvement at the popular tech blog and launching a new startup called Plexus Engine, which will…

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Hadoop is Ready for Enterprise Says Creator Doug Cutting and Former Bank of America Data Scientist Abhi Mehta

By Klint Finley Nov 10, 2011

Abhi Mehta was a managing director for Bank of America. Now he’s running his own big data startup Tresata, which he announced on theCube last February. Mehta returned to theCube at HadoopWorld 2011, where…

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Apache BigTop: The Next Big Thing in Hadoop

By Klint Finley Nov 10, 2011

Yesterday during his keynote at HadoopWorld 2011, Apache Hadoop creator and Cloudera employee Doug Cutting announced that the next version of Cloudera’s Distribution Including Hadoop (CDH4) will be based on Apache BigTop. But what…

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MapR Launches Free Online Hadoop Training Program

By Klint Finley Nov 9, 2011

As we’ve noted there’s an increasing demand for workers with Apache Hadoop skills. But if you’re a developer or IT operations professional, how can you learn more about Hadoop? MapR, a company that sells…

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Yammer Rolls Out New Real-Time Collaboration Features

By Klint Finley Nov 9, 2011

Yammer announced a new version that incorporates three new features: Yammer Pages, Yammer Files and Yammer Ticker. Yammer Pages is a document collaboration tool that Yammer CTO Adam Pisoni describes as a cross between…

Klint Finley

Android 4.0/Ice Cream Sandwich Open Sourced, But is Google Still Open Washing?

Hadoop is Ready for Enterprise Says Creator Doug Cutting and Former Bank of America Data Scientist Abhi Mehta

Apache BigTop: The Next Big Thing in Hadoop

MapR Launches Free Online Hadoop Training Program

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