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Glimmer of hope in Yahoo! earnings as mobile revenues surge
Yahoo! Inc.’s outlook brightened slightly as it posted a rare increase in revenues for the most recent quarter, partially driven by its emerging mobile business. The news isn’t much to write home about though; the company said its third-quarter GAAP revenues increased by just one percent to $1.148 billion, up from $1.139 billion in Q3 ...
SAP updates HANA platform with new features, licensing + APIs
SAP SE is hoping to ramp up sales of its flagship HANA in-memory database platform with a raft of new features, including a new application programming interface and improvements to the way it handles Big Data workloads. The announcement came at SAP’s TechEd & d-code conference in Las Vegas. The changes are aimed at making ...
Google buys Firebase to add real-time sync & store capabilities to its Cloud Platform
Google has acquired backend-as-a-service startup Firebase, maker of a development platform for building Android and iOS apps that can store and sync data in real time. Firebase, which counts some 110,000 registered users, will be integrated with Google’s Cloud Platform but will remain platform-agnostic. The most immediate benefit of the deal is that Firebase will be ...
Anonabox Tor router gets kicked off of Kickstarter
Kickstarter has suspended donations for Anonabox, its hottest and most controversial project of the moment, following a deluge of claims from netizens that the tiny device isn’t an original design. That means the developers behind it will not be able to collect a dime of the $600,000 pledged so far. The Anonabox was touted as ...
Study says Big Data set to fuel the next Industrial Revolution
A new study from Accenture Plc and General Electric Corp. (GE) has concluded that digital technologies offer a level of opportunity that’s unprecedented in the history of business. So disruptive are these technologies that over 66 percent of executives believe there’s an urgent need to adopt Big Data technologies to avoid losing their market position. ...
Microsoft delivers Azure-in-a-box solution for hybrid clouds
Microsoft Corp., held a big cloud press event yesterday where it announced the Azure Marketplace together with a new family of Azure products it hopes will convince customers of its ability to run hyperscale, enterprise-grade and hybrid cloud computing environments. The Azure Marketplace will serve as a one-stop-shop for offerings from Microsoft’s cloud partners. Users ...
Lenovo said to be looking at buying BlackBerry – again
China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. might be close to completing the acquisition of struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry Limited – for real, this time – according to reports. Canada’s CBC News reports that Lenovo is in talks to snap up the ailing firm for around $15 per share, despite the fact that similar negotiations broke down last ...
Rackspace serves up Hadoop on bare-metal cloud platform
Rackspace Inc., burst into the Strata + Hadoop World conference yesterday with a unique solution to a Big Data problem an announcement that could massively impact Big Data. It’s just launched a new solution called the OnMetal Cloud Big Data Platform that gives enterprises bare-metal access to Hadoop clusters in public clouds. Running Hadoop in ...
Huawei & Accenture announce private cloud enterprise push
China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., has formed a strategic alliance with Accenture Plc.., to develop better cloud services for telecommunications firms and the enterprise. Though the ink is still drying on their pact, the two firms are already engaged in “joint initiatives” that will focus on China, Southeast Asia and a few select developed markets. ...
OpenStack’s 10th release reflects heavy telco influence
OpenStack has just pushed out its tenth release, adding new elements that should make it a more viable option for telecommunications companies. Called Juno, it adds support for Network Function Virtualization (NFV), as well as new Big Data capabilities and more granular policy controls for Object Storage. Now four years old, OpenStack has emerged as the ...