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Uber buys Bing Maps assets & imagery data
Microsoft has announced it’s selling some of its Bing Maps assets to Uber Inc., including around 100 employees focused on the product’s image collection activities. The company also said it will stop collecting its own map data, though it plans to continue to offer Bing Maps using data licensed from partners. Meanwhile, Uber has also ...
Airtable gets $7.6M to reimagine the database
Databases aren’t for everyone. They’re incredibly complex things to work with, and generally only those with the requisite expertise and training even contemplate doing so. But that might change if Airtable has its way. The startup is aiming to make databases so simple that even those with just basic computer skills will be able to ...
Snowflake jumps into data analytics with cloud-based data warehouse solution
Snowflake Computing Inc., a Big Data startup led by former Microsoft man Bob Muglia, last week announced the general availability of its tool for analyzing business data in the cloud, plus a $45 million funding round led by Altimeter Capital. The $45 million cash injection takes Snowflake’s total funding to $71 million. Previous investors Redpoint ...
Gartner: AWS, Google & Microsoft lead the way in cloud storage
Enterprise giants Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft have been recognized as the undisputed leaders in the cloud storage space by Gartner Inc.’s analysts. Last week, Gartner rolled out its latest Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services, Worldwide, acknowledging just seven vendors it considers worthwhile bothering with. They are the leaders AWS, Google ...
Uber goes continental with UberBOAT launch in Istanbul
After succesfully tricking legions of Thai Uber-ites with the (fake) launch of its UberBoat service in Bangkok, Thailand, last April, Uber Inc., has actually launched a (real) boat service after all, dubbed “UberBOAT”. Uber is now officially offering transportation between continents with its new service, which is being launched in Istanbul, Turkey, the so-called “Gateway ...
Nadella spells out Microsoft’s new mission: Help everyone “achieve more”
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has officially revised the company’s mission statement, in an email sent out to employees yesterday. As of today, the Redmond firm’s goal is to “empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more,” Nadella wrote in his communique. The email was first leaked to GeekWire, and has since ...
Study: Most organizations still struggle to mine Big Data
Although some businesses saw revenues increase by more than $10 million, others have struggled when it comes to mining their Big Data archives, a new International Data Corp. (IDC) study shows. The white paper, Mining for Insight: Rediscovering the Data Archive, was commissioned and has now been published by Iron Mountain Inc. It reveals that ...
Google launches Cloud Source Repositories to take down GitHub
Google has gone under the radar with the beta launch of a private Git repository hosting service on its Google Cloud Platform that looks set to rival the popular GitHub service. Known as Cloud Source Repositories, the service was first spotted by VentureBeat, which notes Google hasn’t yet made any official announcement. It provides beta ...
Red Hat unveils PaaS & IaaS offerings with Docker & Kubernetes support
Hot on the heels of this week’s DockerCon fest, enterprise Linux vendo Red Hat Inc. yesterday unveiled a couple of new container-centric products at its own Red Hat Summit in Boston. The biggest announcement was Red Hat’s OpenShift Enterprise 3, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering designed to help enterprises build private clouds. According to Red Hat, ...
Clarabrige updates CEM platform to burn down the data silos
Customer Experience Management (CEM) provider Clarabridge Inc., has announced the release of Clarabridge 7, a platform that aims to help marketing firms speed up the actionability of data intelligence by burning down corporate silos. The Clarabridge 7 platform is built to empower enterprise teams to gather and filter actionable insights from their company’s data. The ...