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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explains why the platform isn’t banning Alex Jones

By James Farrell Aug 8, 2018

Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Jack Dorsey Tuesday came out to defend his company’s stance on not banning American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, following this week’s cull by other leading platforms. In a series of…

Infra

Data center operators battle to contain increasing frequency of outages

By Mike Wheatley Aug 8, 2018

As the frequency and severity of data center outages increases, enterprises are searching for new ways to boost their resiliency, according to a new industry survey by the Uptime Institute. The survey found that…

Cloud

Report: Slack is raising $400M from General Atlantic on a $7B valuation

By Duncan Riley Aug 8, 2018

Team messaging services provider Slack Technologies Inc. is raising a new round of about $400 million on a valuation of $7 billion, according to an unconfirmed report published Tuesday. TechCrunch made the claim late Tuesday, saying…

Infra

Western Digital intros OpenFlex architecture for deploying composable infrastructure

By Mike Wheatley Aug 7, 2018

Data storage equipment maker Western Digital Corp. Tuesday introduced a new storage architecture called OpenFlex, together with a bunch of hardware devices that support it. OpenFlex is designed to give data center operators the ability to…

Emerging Tech

Overstock tZERO ‘Security Token Offering’ closes in successful debut of ICO alternative

By Duncan Riley Aug 7, 2018

Overstock.com Inc. has closed its Security Token Offering for its tZERO market blockchain platform early in an apparent sign of success for an alternative fundraising method to initial coin offerings. tZERO was announced in…

Emerging Tech

West Virginia blockchain-based mobile voting raises security concerns

By Duncan Riley Aug 7, 2018

Blockchain-based mobile voting startup Voatz Inc. has landed its first big contract, with the State of West Virginia agreeing to use its platform for military voting. But the news has raised security concerns. Voatz first came…

Apps

Millennial love affair ends as Snap reports declining user numbers

By Duncan Riley Aug 7, 2018

The millennial love affair with Snapchat is officially over: Parent company Snap Inc. today reported its first-ever decline in active users in its second quarter. In a mixed bag of results, the messaging app…

Cloud

New Relic beats earnings targets but not by enough to please investors

By Mike Wheatley Aug 7, 2018

Software analytics company New Relic Inc. is claiming a good start to its fiscal 2019 after posting first-quarter earnings that came in above analysts’ estimates. The San Francisco-based firm today reported earnings before certain costs…

Big Data

Hortonworks’ stock jumps as it easily beats earnings targets

By Mike Wheatley Aug 7, 2018

Big data company Hortonworks Inc. has pulled yet another successful quarter out of the bag with earnings that easily surpassed analysts’ estimates, sending its share price soaring in after-hours trading. Hortonworks, which distributes an…

Emerging Tech

Have you launched your own air force? Your competition is working on theirs

By Jeff Frick Aug 7, 2018

Commercial drones deserve a lot more of your attention than you think. At the dawn of aviation in 1907, the U.S. Army had no idea what to do with “ballooning, air machines and all…

the latest

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explains why the platform isn’t banning Alex Jones

Data center operators battle to contain increasing frequency of outages

Report: Slack is raising $400M from General Atlantic on a $7B valuation

Western Digital intros OpenFlex architecture for deploying composable infrastructure

Overstock tZERO ‘Security Token Offering’ closes in successful debut of ICO alternative

West Virginia blockchain-based mobile voting raises security concerns

Millennial love affair ends as Snap reports declining user numbers

New Relic beats earnings targets but not by enough to please investors

Hortonworks’ stock jumps as it easily beats earnings targets

Have you launched your own air force? Your competition is working on theirs

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