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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…

Big Data

Hortonworks turns cash flow-positive as customers sign bigger deals, but investors balk

By Paul Gillin Feb 8, 2018

Updated: Big-data company Hortonworks Inc. continues to make steady progress in its effort to convince skeptics — at least some of them — that a pure open-source business model can work in today’s software…

Big Data

What’s this New England Patriot alum doing at a virtualization tech event?

By Mark Albertson Feb 8, 2018

Some user group meetings are about cloud technology. Some cover meaty topics like cybersecurity and the hyperconverged infrastructure. Then there is the Virtualization Technology User Group’s January gathering where speakers talk about all of…

Infra

Nvidia stock surges as AI demand helps chipmaker smash earnings forecast

By Robert Hof Feb 8, 2018

Updated: Artificial intelligence is driving a lot of new services from internet giants such as Amazon Web Services Inc., Google LLC, Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. — and they all need Nvidia Corp.’s graphics…

Apps

Lyft hires top Tesla executive Jon McNeill as COO

By Maria Deutscher Feb 8, 2018

Hot on the heels of Uber Technologies Inc. hiring its first chief operating officer, rival Lyft Inc. today announced the appointment of a top Tesla Inc. executive to the same position. Jon McNeill is…

all stories

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

Hortonworks turns cash flow-positive as customers sign bigger deals, but investors balk

What’s this New England Patriot alum doing at a virtualization tech event?

Nvidia stock surges as AI demand helps chipmaker smash earnings forecast

Lyft hires top Tesla executive Jon McNeill as COO

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