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All-flash startup Kaminario bags $53M to scale up storage
Startup Kaminario has just announced a $53 million funding round that will fuel its push into the growing flash storage market. The new round means it’s raised a considerable $128 million, making it one of the best-funded flash startups around. And Kaminario has actually been around for a while. Founded in 2008, it’s going up ...
Hortonworks sets IPO price ahead of NASDAQ debut
Hortonworks Inc. seems keen to get on with its upcoming IPO as soon as possible. It just announced an important bit of news ahead of its NASDAQ debut. Following on from its S-1 filing last month, Hortonworks has issued an update to say it will be trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker ...
Microsoft buys email app Acompli to revamp Outlook
Microsoft has acquired the San Francisco-based email application builder Acompli Inc., in a deal valued at $200 million. The announcement isn’t exactly a surprising one considering how Microsoft accidentally leaked the news before Thanksgiving in a blog post, but it does show how serious the company is about supporting multiple platforms. Re/Code was the first ...
CoreOS launches “container wars” with rival tech to fight Docker
Docker containers are one of the hottest technologies around at the moment, so much so that CoreOS even built its Linux-based operating system for large server deployments around the concept. But now CoreOS isn’t happy with the direction Docker is taking. Docker has a “broken security model”, and so it’s decided to build an alternative ...
FAA’s tough drone rules hold back potentially life-saving applications
Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) shot down any hope of drones being used for commercial purposes in the forseeable future, in a move that threatens to stifle drone innovation and could even have potentially fatal consequences. Under its proposed ‘guidelines’ for commercial drone use, the FAA has excluded the vast majority of the ...
Uber controversy highlights dangers of operating in the cloud
Uber Inc. has been a poster child for disruption in the tech industry since its rise, but recent controversy over its lack of regulation and privacy policies highlight how it’s moving into largely uncharted territory. Last week, the controversial cab service was forced to suspend its services in Nevada after a judge issued a preliminary ...
Lazada raises $250M to fuel Southeast Asia’s online shopping spree
Southeast Asian e-commerce store Lazada.com has just raised a massive $250 million in a funding round that should help to secure its status as the “Amazon of Asia”. The fresh round means Lazada has now raised about $736 million since its inception, while its value is pegged at around $1.25 billion. Lazada, which claims to ...
Can BlackBerry revive its fortunes in enterprise mobility management?
BlackBerry last week unveiled its mobile enterprise platform BlackBerry Enterprise Server 12, which allows IT departments to manage Android and iOS devices plus BlackBerry’s own smartphones. It also announced it will integrate Samsung’s Know enterprise security system with the platform, which is due for release in January. BES 12 represents a significant opportunity for BlackBerry. ...
Euro MPs vote to break up Google in totally meaningless gesture
European MPs have had Google in their sights for some time now, and have just upped the ante by voting to “unbundle search engines from commercial services”, which would effectively mean breaking up the company. It should be noted yesterday’s vote at the European Parliament is completely unenforceable – it doesn’t have the power to ...
EU demands “right to be forgotten” goes international
Europe’s “right to be forgotten” has generated a lot of controversy since Google was forced to start deleting some links from its search engine. But so far the ruling has only been applied to Google’s European domains – like Google.co.uk and Google.fr for instance – which means that smarter netizens can easily sidestep any censorship. ...