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Verizon shells out $2.4BN for Fleetmatics to boost its connected car business

By Maria Deutscher Aug 1, 2016

As demand for traditional landline services continues to falter, carriers like Verizon Communications Inc. are expanding into new markets with more promising growth prospects. The company stepped up its efforts today by entering an…

More Kickass Torrent mirrors spring up as others are taken down

By Eric David Aug 1, 2016

One of these days, Hollywood may finally realize that permanently closing torrent sites is an all but impossible task, but until then, the major film studios will continuing playing whack-a-mole with sites like Kickass Torrents…

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As flash replaces disk, network becomes choke point – Wikibon

By Bert Latamore Aug 1, 2016

For decades the choke point for data center performance has been spinning disk storage. Now, as disk is replaced by order-of-magnitude faster flash, the data center network is becoming the new gating technology restricting…

Niantic cracks down on third-party Pokemon Go tracking sites

By Eric David Aug 1, 2016

Pokemon Go is the most popular broken app to ever hit the market, and its legion of fans has been hard at work creating third-party tools to make up for the game’s shortcomings. Unfortunately,…

Breaking Analysis: Oracle’s $9B+ acquisition of NetSuite underscores software MegaTrends

By Dave Vellante Aug 1, 2016

Oracle Corp. continued its march to the cloud this week with a $9.3 billion acquisition of NetSuite, Inc. Mainstream media focused most of its coverage on the conflict of interest due to Larry Ellison’s large holdings in…

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What you missed in Big Data: VCs continue investing in analytics

By Maria Deutscher Aug 1, 2016

Venture capital is continuing to flow into the analytics space as organizations find more and more applications for their information. There’s especially strong interest in the data coming off the connected universe, enthusiasm that…