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North Korea hacking bitcoin exchanges along with threatening nuclear war

By Duncan Riley Sep 27, 2017

North Korea latest act of maleficence doesn’t involve nuclear weapons but something still deeply concerning to the cyrptocurrency community: bitcoin hacking. The rogue state is alleged by South Korea to have been intentionally targeting bitcoin…

Big Data

Can Splunk get to $5B in revenue? Analysts weigh the possibility

By Mark Albertson Sep 27, 2017

Splunk Inc. has a plan to reach 20,000 net customers and $2 billion in revenue by 2020. Some analysts think the data operational intelligence platform company could do better than that. “It’s currently a…

Apps

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t ‘like’ Trump saying Facebook is against him, and he fires back

By James Farrell Sep 27, 2017

Facebook Inc., accused of helping elect President Trump because of fake news and Russian-paid ads, now has been attacked by Trump for allegedly attempting to sway voters against him. Not surprisingly, Facebook Chief Executive…

Emerging Tech

Google Brain chief: AI tops humans in computer vision, and healthcare will never be the same

By Gina Smith Sep 27, 2017

Just five years ago, artificial intelligence-enabled computers could barely recognize images fed to them, much less analyze them anything like people can. Suddenly, they’ve turned the tables. “In 2011 their error rate was 26…

Cloud

Amazon still leads cloud infrastructure market by a mile, but Alibaba edges past Google

By Mike Wheatley Sep 27, 2017

Analyst firm Gartner Inc.’s first-ever report on the state of the infrastructure as a service cloud computing market won’t make Google LLC happy, but it surely will please Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Released today,…

Apps

This Chinese startup you’ve never heard of is raising $3B on a $28B valuation

By Duncan Riley Sep 27, 2017

Chinese e-commerce company Meituan Dianping, which no one in the West likely has ever heard of, is close to finalizing a $3 billion venture capital fundraising on a $28 billion valuation, making it the fifth largest…

Big Data

Alation and Paxata partner to help companies navigate data lakes

By Mike Wheatley Sep 27, 2017

Big data companies Alation Inc. and Paxata Inc. say they’re teaming up to help enterprises navigate their way through so-called “data lakes” more easily. Data lakes are storage repositories that hold vast amounts of…

Big Data

Building up and out from the data lake: Data management platforms to the rescue

By Nelson Williams Sep 27, 2017

The business world knows there is power in data; however, harnessing that power requires a new technology infrastructure. Most companies are not prepared to build these systems by themselves, as too many choices and…

Big Data

Deep learning advances could create big winners, but will developers care?

By Mark Albertson Sep 27, 2017

Deep learning models applied to big data platforms are capturing enterprise interest this week as entrepreneurs develop conversational interfaces that attempt to sound more realistic than anything else on the market. It’s a tall…

Infra

Cisco sharpens its ax for more job cuts at San Jose HQ

By Mike Wheatley Sep 27, 2017

Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. is set to ax 310 more staffers from its corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. The company revealed its intentions in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filing that…

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North Korea hacking bitcoin exchanges along with threatening nuclear war

Can Splunk get to $5B in revenue? Analysts weigh the possibility

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t ‘like’ Trump saying Facebook is against him, and he fires back

Google Brain chief: AI tops humans in computer vision, and healthcare will never be the same

This Chinese startup you’ve never heard of is raising $3B on a $28B valuation

Alation and Paxata partner to help companies navigate data lakes

Building up and out from the data lake: Data management platforms to the rescue

Deep learning advances could create big winners, but will developers care?

Cisco sharpens its ax for more job cuts at San Jose HQ

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