Big Data
Identity crisis threatens to sideline Hadoop as the leader of Big Data
The rapid proliferation of Big Data software has made it unclear what Hadoop stands for today.
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Researchers unveil world’s first programmable quantum processor
Quantum computing took another step forward this week after researchers from the University of Maryland unveiled an experimental five-qubit chip that can operate without hard-wired instructions. As a result, it’s possible to modify the…
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LinkedIn open-sources a UI testing tool for Android developers
Two weeks after releasing a speedy caching framework for iOS, LinkedIn Inc. is turning its attention to Android. The company this morning open-sourced a tool called Test Butler that aims to make it easier…
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Microsoft launches Excel API to let developers embed number-crunching functionality in their apps
Microsoft Corp. has a new strategy to widen the adoption of Excel. The software giant this week rolled out a REST API for the tool that enables developers to open spreadsheets, perform calculations and…
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Open source reshaping vendor business models – Wikibon
A new trend among enterprises to make open source software a priority in their criteria for new infrastructure and application use will impact venture capital investments, startups, established IT vendors and cloud providers, writes…
Spot.IM raises $13M in its quest to make comments cool again
By Paul Gillin
Online community platform Spot.IM Ltd. brightened up an otherwise dismal publishing market with the announcement that it closed a $13 million funding round led by Index Ventures and Altair Capital Management LLC, along with several…
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Velostrata raises $17.5M to help companies relocate their apps to the cloud
Moving on-premise applications to the cloud used to take weeks or even months of painstaking manual work, but the task can now be completed in under an hour if Velostrata Inc. is to be…
future data
How can AIs study you while keeping all your secrets? Neura CEO explains
Updated: There’s more data being collected on you than companies know what to do with. Dubbed the “data lake”, this growing repository of information bears the promise of better business and improved customer service.…
Kentik raises $23m to scale streaming analytics in post-Hadoop world
Thriving as a specialty data analytics platform, Kentik Technologies, Inc. is doing pretty well in its lane. The network performance analyzer has raised $23 million in Series B funding in a round led by Third Point Ventures, with…
Blockchain merchant services provider Coinify raises $4m in a Series A round
By Duncan Riley
Bitcoin merchant services provider Coinify ApS has raised $4 million Series A in a round led by SEB Venture Capital that included SEED Capital Denmark. Founded in 2014, Coinify offers a blockchain payment service…