Amazon lobs a reverse Snowball at enterprises
Uploading 100 terabytes of data to the cloud is extremely time consuming, expensive, and uses a hell of a lot of bandwidth. Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes that lots of people would like to…
Now you can make a conference call in Slack: Here’s what you need to know
By Collen Kriel
In January Skype announced integration with enterprise messaging app Slack that allows Slack team members to make Skype voice and video calls from directly inside the Slack app. Now Slack Technologies, Inc. has made…
How to send PDFs to your WhatsApp contacts on iOS, Android
By Collen Kriel
At the start of last month, Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp became the world leader in messaging with the announcement that the service had reached 1 billion users. “WhatsApp began as a simple idea: ensuring…
Genesis Mining launches the world’s first Bitcoin mining fund
By Duncan Riley
Bitcoin mining firm Genesis Mining, Inc. has announced the launch of what is claimed to be the world’s first Bitcoin mining fund. The Logos Fund will cater to high net worth individuals, investment funds,…
Facebook exec in Brazil released after being arrested over WhatsApp data dispute
By Duncan Riley
Police in Brazil have released a Senior Facebook Executive arrested over a dispute regarding a court order to produce data from its WhatsApp messaging service. Facebook Vice President for Latin America Diego Dzodan was…
Slack looking to raise new round of $150-300 million on $4b valuation
By Duncan Riley
Enterprise messaging platform provider Slack Technologies, Inc.is said to be looking to raise a new round on a $4 billion valuation, according to multiple reports Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company…
Mr. Schmidt goes to Washington as Alphabet’s Eric appointed chair of new Pentagon board
By Duncan Riley
Alphabet, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt is going to Washington to chair a new advisory group for the Department of Defense (DoD). Called the “Defense Innovation Advisory Board,” the new board is said…
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 March 2: OpenBazaar opens on testnet, Coinbase debit card buys, Bitcoin network DoS, Japanese BTC tax-exemption debate
By Kyt Dotson
This week the distributed peer-to-peer marketplace project OpenBazaar opened up on the Bitcoin testnet so that the system can be alpha tested for bugs. Bitcoin wallet company Coinbase, Inc. has begun to offer debit…
Yahoo takes on competitive gaming with the launch of Yahoo Esports
By Eric David
Yahoo Inc has become the latest media company to hop on the esports bandwagon with the launch of its own pro-gaming news and analysis site, Yahoo Esports. The new vertical appears to be aiming to…
Hyperglance adds clarity to the chaos of multi-cloud environments
Ironically, the adoption of cloud computing—public and private—has clouded the visibility into resources running in those environments. Organizations have trouble seeing, monitoring and managing cloud resources. And that lack of visibility means security problems…