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3D Robotics raises $50M to build better drones with mobile chips
Drone and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology startup 3D Robotics Inc. has just raked in a massive $50 million in a Series C funding round led by Qualcomm Ventures, the latest in a flurry of investments going into the industry. The Berkeley, California-based startup also gains a new partner in Qualcomm itself, and will build ...
Silent Circle targets the enterprise with super-secure Blackphone
Remember the Blackphone? Developed in response to concerns over the US government’s surveillance programs and concerns over web security, the $600+ handset is designed to keep your communications private and your essential data absolutely secure. It was built in cooperation between encrypted communications provider Silent Circle and its hardware partner Geeksphone, but today the former ...
China adds Apple and Cisco to its blacklist
China’s government has removed any lingering doubts that it’s making life difficult for US tech firms with the removal of Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Ltd. from a list of approved companies. The Reuters news agency obtained a list of the Chinese central government’s approved technology vendors, and the two tech giants are nowhere to ...
Harmony or Hail Mary? Experts debate need for the Open Data Platform
Will the Open Data Platform (ODP) association bring harmony to the Big Data market or dive a wedge into it? Experts have been debating that point since the blockbuster announcement last week, with the consensus being that, at best, ODP has a long and difficult road ahead. The new consortium, which is led by Pivotal ...
Coolan wants to keep tabs on your data center in the cloud
A new startup led by one of the founders of Facebook’s Open Compute Project is bidding to make data centers more economical by gathering and analyzing performance data from thousands of users, with a service it calls “community-based analytics”. Coolan is the brainchild of Amir Michael, who worked on the team that founded Facebook’s Open ...
HP goes shopping: Targets Aruba Networks acquisition
Hewlett-Packard Co. could be poised to make one last acquisition before it splits itself in two, with a report from Bloomberg suggesting it’s looking to snap up wireless networking infrastructure technology outfit Aruba Networks Inc. Bloomberg cites the usual anonymous sources in its report, and says the deal could be announced as soon as next ...
Hortonworks’ Big Data revenues fall short of expectations
The entire Hadoop industry has been anticipating yesterday’s first-ever quarterly earnings report from Hortonworks, Inc., but the results were neither a home run nor a strikeout. The company that grabbed the stock symbol HDP said its losses continue to grow, but it painted a rosy picture of the future. The stock market chose to look on the ...
Mirantis and Google bring Kubernetes to OpenStack
Google has teamed up with OpenStack pure-play vendor Mirantis Inc. in order to make it easier to use the Docker cluster manager Kubernetes on the cloud platform. Mirantis, one of the major OpenStack vendors, said today it’s added support for Kubernetes, an open-source technology built by Google that’s designed to manage containerized applications. The integration ...
Apache HBase 1.0 launched after 7 years of development
After almost seven years of careful development and nurturing, the Apache Software Foundation has finally signed off on the first stable release of HBase 1.0, which is often more simply referred to as the Hadoop Database. The release of HBase 1.0, which has been built to work with various different flavors of Hadoop, was described ...
HP reshuffles Helion cloud leadership as Mårten Mickos steps down
Hewlett-Packard Company’s cloud division is in the midst of a management reshuffle, with reports suggesting that senior vice president Marten Mickos, formerly the CEO of cloud vendor Eucalyptus, has stepped down from day-to-day operations to be replaced by some familiar faces. GigaOM first broke the news on Monday, while The Register later published details of ...