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Uber rival Didi Chuxing heading to Japan via new deal with SoftBank

By Duncan Riley Feb 8, 2018

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing Technology Co. is setting its sights on Japan. Under a new deal with SoftBank Group Corp. announced Thursday, Didi will run a trial of its services in Osaka, Kyoto, Fukuoka,…

Apps

Microsoft’s LinkedIn Resume Assistant rolls out to Office 365

By Collen Kriel Feb 8, 2018

Microsoft Corp. has rolled out its LinkedIn-powered Resume Assistant tool to Office 365 subscribers. Resume Assistant, which Microsoft announced in November, will give users access to insights from millions of LinkedIn profiles, which the…

Emerging Tech

Binance hacking rumors spook cryptocurrency markets

By Duncan Riley Feb 8, 2018

Cryptocurrency markets were spooked in trading Thursday after leading bitcoin exchange Binance went offline for over 24 hours without warning. Hong Kong-based Binance went offline at approximately 7 p.m. EST Wednesday as part of…

Infra

California voter registration data stolen after newspaper left database exposed

By Duncan Riley Feb 8, 2018

Databases detailing 19.5 million Californian voter records as well as 53,000 newspaper subscribers have been stolen after a newspaper left both files exposed online. The leak from The Sacramento Bee, reported today, was discovered by the…

Apps

As Twitter chalks up first profit, its 280-character tweet expansion proves a success

By James Farrell Feb 8, 2018

Last September Twitter Inc. took what looked like a giant step when it doubled the character limit on its news and social networking site from 140 to 280. At the time, the media sentiment on…

Emerging Tech

Wikipedia wannabe Everipedia raises $30M to fund blockchain move

By Duncan Riley Feb 8, 2018

Everipedia Inc., a for-profit Wikipedia competitor, today said it has raised $30 million to move its “next generation encyclopedia” onto a blockchain. The Series A round was led by Galaxy Digital’s EOS.IO Ecosystem Fund…

Infra

Sylabs launches Singularity Pro, a container platform for HPC environments

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2018

Startup Sylabs Inc. today announced the commercial release of its open-source Singularity container engine software for high-performance computing. Called Singularity Pro, the platform has been optimized specifically for running software containers on HPC infrastructure, or…

Cloud

Amazon adds encryption at rest to DynamoDB database service

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2018

Amazon Web Services Inc. today added a new encryption feature to its DynamoDB database service in order to help better secure users’ data. DynamoDB is Amazon’s NoSQL database service, which is designed for storing and…

Infra

LinkedIn open-sources Dynamometer, a new tool for testing big-data performance

By Mike Wheatley Feb 8, 2018

Microsoft Corp.-owned professional networking site LinkedIn is open-sourcing another new project. Dynamometer is a new tool is focused around stress-testing large Hadoop big-data deployments without using massive amounts of infrastructure. In a blog post today, LinkedIn senior software…

Women in Tech

A futurist’s take on big data fails in marketing

By R. Danes Feb 8, 2018

Brands are lasering in on consumer data to tailor experiences that keep customers loyal as German Shepherds. But as with marketing initiatives, throwing new software at the problem and expecting magic to happen yields poor…

the latest

Microsoft’s LinkedIn Resume Assistant rolls out to Office 365

Binance hacking rumors spook cryptocurrency markets

California voter registration data stolen after newspaper left database exposed

As Twitter chalks up first profit, its 280-character tweet expansion proves a success

Wikipedia wannabe Everipedia raises $30M to fund blockchain move

Sylabs launches Singularity Pro, a container platform for HPC environments

Amazon adds encryption at rest to DynamoDB database service

LinkedIn open-sources Dynamometer, a new tool for testing big-data performance

A futurist’s take on big data fails in marketing

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