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Bitcoin futures trading temporarily halted as investors flood into other cryptocurrencies

By Duncan Riley Dec 13, 2017

Trading in bitcoin futures on the Cboe Global Markets exchange was halted briefly on Wednesday as investor interest switched from bitcoin to alternative cryptocurrencies, some of which hit new record highs. The automatic two-minute halt kicked in after the…

Infra

Three men plead guilty to creation and distribution of infamous Mirai botnet

By Duncan Riley Dec 13, 2017

Three men have pleaded guilty to their role in the creation and distribution of the infamous Mirai botnet, which took down wide swaths of the internet in October 2016. This particularly pernicious botnet, which…

Emerging Tech

Department of Justice letter reveals criminal investigation into Waymo-Uber allegations

By Duncan Riley Dec 13, 2017

Uber Technologies Inc.’s long, bad year just got worse. The judge presiding over its case with Waymo today unsealed a document that reveals for the first time that the ride-hailing company is currently subject…

Infra

Less than 6 months after its IPO, storage firm Tintri considers selling out

By Robert Hof Dec 13, 2017

Less than six months after going public, storage firm Tintri Inc. today said it’s considering a sale of the company following a second straight quarter of disappointing results. In a surprise move, the Mountain…

Infra

‘We’ve heard you loud and clear’: Crowdfunding site Patreon walks back unpopular fee changes

By Eric David Dec 13, 2017

Content crowdfunding platform Patreon has halted plans to change the way it collects service fees after it encountered firm resistance from creators and their patrons. Patreon had planned to implement the new fees on Dec. 18, but Patreon Inc. Chief Executive Jack Conte…

Big Data

Database accelerators rev up apps in finance, more

By R. Danes Dec 13, 2017

Faster data ingestion and querying sounds like a fine thing, but does it translate to concrete advances in applications? What about pure business value? Database accelerators let companies plug in real-time speed and see…

Emerging Tech

Digital currency wallet Colu raises $14.5M to encourage buying local

By Kyt Dotson Dec 13, 2017

Israeli local-market digital currency and wallet technology company Colu Technologies Ltd. announced today that the company has secured $14.5 million from IDB Development Corp. Colu produces a digital ledger blockchain app that allows local…

Infra

AI could fly to the IoT edge on time with FPGAs

By R. Danes Dec 13, 2017

Lugging all data from “internet of things” connected devices back to the cloud for processing may work in theory or testing but not so much when a developed product goes live. For a product to…

Infra

EBay acquires Terapeak to give sellers better analytics on their sales

By Eric David Dec 13, 2017

Online marketplace eBay Inc. today said it has acquired Terapeak Inc., a Toronto-based data startup that helps sellers make supply and pricing decisions for ecommerce sites such as eBay and Amazon.com. Founded in 2002, Terapeak’s cloud-based data platform…

Big Data

WANdisco leverages AWS Snowball for downtime-free data transfer

By Mark Albertson Dec 13, 2017

The process to move massive (petabytes) of data into the cloud became easier when Amazon Web Services Inc. created Snowball, a truck-sized server that’s literally on wheels (Snowmobile). Load the data into Snowball, transport it…

the latest

Bitcoin futures trading temporarily halted as investors flood into other cryptocurrencies

Three men plead guilty to creation and distribution of infamous Mirai botnet

Department of Justice letter reveals criminal investigation into Waymo-Uber allegations

Less than 6 months after its IPO, storage firm Tintri considers selling out

‘We’ve heard you loud and clear’: Crowdfunding site Patreon walks back unpopular fee changes

Database accelerators rev up apps in finance, more

Digital currency wallet Colu raises $14.5M to encourage buying local

AI could fly to the IoT edge on time with FPGAs

EBay acquires Terapeak to give sellers better analytics on their sales

WANdisco leverages AWS Snowball for downtime-free data transfer

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