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Investors ready to fill Uber’s war chest with $1.2B funding round
Alternative cab booking service Uber Inc. is said to be close to raising a new round of funding that would bring its valuation to a whopping $40 billion, according to a Bloomberg report yesterday. The company is hoping to bring in at least $1 billion from the fresh round, the report said. Among the investors ...
Amazon’s Cloudfront DNS goes cold turkey on eve of Thanksgiving
It was only a couple of weeks ago that Microsoft’s Azure was hit by an extended global outage that took its cloud services offline for several hours. Now, just before Thanksgiving, Amazon Web Services Inc. has suffered a similar fate. The problem hit Amazon’s Cloudfront DNS service late yesterday afternoon, causing a major slow down ...
‘Charted’ makes beautiful data visualizations in seconds
Web publishing startup Medium has unveiled a handy new data visualization tool called Charted that allows anyone to make beautiful charts in seconds. Medium says Charted was initially built by its Product Science team as a means of analyzing data and communicating their findings with the rest of the team. To create a data visualization, ...
IDC: Tablet sales set to slow dramatically
International Data Corporation says it’s looking gloomy on the horizon for tablet vendors. The market watcher believes that growth in sales of tablets and ‘hybrid’ tablet/computers is set to slow dramatically next year. “The worldwide tablet market is expected to see a massive deceleration in 2014 with year-over-year growth slowing to 7.2%, down from 52.5% ...
HP’s profits decline but analysts remain optimistic over split
Just one month after announcing its plans to split into two new companies, Hewlett-Packard Co. has reported a 2% decline in its Q4 revenues, missing analysts estimates and causing its share price to plummet. HP posted revenues of $28.4 billion for the quarter ending October 31, down from $29.1 billion the year before, and slightly ...
Ever wondered why iCloud sucks? It’s an organizational thing
Even the most passionate Apple fanboys will admit that the company’s iCloud serve can be a bit temperamental. Whether it’s the layout, syncing or security issues, iCloud just isn’t as good as similar cloud services from rivals like Google Inc. or Dropbox. And now we know why. The development of Apple Inc’s iCloud is being ...
FAA shoots down commercial drone use with tough rule proposals
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expected to announce rules governing commerical drone use in the near future, but it’s unlikely enthusiasts are going to welcome them. That’s because the FAA’s rules are going to be incredibly strict, if a report in the Wall Street Journal is accurate. For starters, you’ll need to know how ...
Docker discovers critical flaws: Users urged to upgrade
As the Docker container craze continues to gather pace, it’s a foregone conclusion that vulnerabilities in the technology will emerge. Docker containers sprung their first major leak back in June when a quickly patched vulnerability was discovered that allowed rogue programs to break out of their containers and access files on the host operating system. ...
Mozilla’s revenues stay flat: Is Firefox destined to flop?
The Mozilla Foundation released its annual financial report for 2013 last Friday, and it wasn’t exactly good news. With revenues increasing by just one percent from the year before, and it’s main benefactor Google Inc. about to wave goodbye, it raises questions about Mozilla’s ability to advance its stated mission to promote openness, innovation & ...
Analysts: Windows Phone will surpass Android in the enterprise
The fortune tellers over at CCS Insight are forecasting good things for Microsoft, claiming its Windows Phone OS is set to become the number two platform for enterprise users by 2016. Speaking to The Register, Nick McQuire, VP of Enterprise Research at CCS Insight said Windows Phone, which is soon to be revamped as “Windows ...